PDF Generation API

A powerful, easy-to-use API for generating PDF documents from HTML content or URLs.

Deploy with VercelView Repository

Features

  • Generate PDFs from URLs or HTML content

  • Powered by Puppeteer and headless Chromium

  • Serverless deployment ready

  • Open source

  • Customizable page settings (soon, open to contribution)

Get started

This hosted API is provided for demonstration purposes only. Please deploy it on your own infrastructure, or I'll have to shut it down.

You can deploy it freely to Vercel with one click.

To generate a PDF, you can make a JSON POST request to the /api/gen endpoint with either a url or html parameter in the request body:

curl -X POST 'https://pdf.mathieutu.dev/api/gen' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --output 'foo.pdf' \
  --data-raw '{
    "filename": "foo.pdf",
    "html": "<html><head><script src=\"https:\/\/cdn.tailwindcss.com\"><\/script><\/head><body class=\"h-screen grid place-items-center\"><span class=\"print:hidden\">IT SHOULD NO BE PRINTED<\/span><div class=\"bg-pink-300 text-pink-800 p-8 h-[100px] grid place-items-center font-medium font-mono\">@mathieutu<\/div><\/body><\/html>"
  }'

You can also directly pass a url in query parameter of a GET request: https://pdf.mathieutu.dev/api/gen?url=https://pdf.mathieutu.dev

The response will be a PDF document with the appropriate content type headers.

The Author

This project was created by @mathieutu, a passionate developer focused on building open-source tools and APIs.

Feel free to contribute to the project or reach out for collaboration opportunities.