puppeteer-html-pdf

HTML to PDF converter for Node.js

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Versions

Node.js	puppeteer-html-pdf
>=20.0.0	v4.x
<20.0.0	v3.x

Installation

npm install puppeteer-html-pdf

const htmlPDF = new PuppeteerHTMLPDF();

Methods

htmlPDF.setOptions(options);
htmlPDF.getPage();
htmlPDF.create(content, callback);
htmlPDF.writeFile(pdfBuffer, filePath, callback);
htmlPDF.readFile(filePath, encoding, callback);
htmlPDF.setAutoCloseBrowser(flag);
htmlPDF.closeBrowser();
htmlPDF.closeBrowserTabs();

Usage

Example 1

const PuppeteerHTMLPDF = require("puppeteer-html-pdf");
const hbs = require("handlebars");

const htmlPDF = new PuppeteerHTMLPDF();
htmlPDF.setOptions({ format: "A4" });

const pdfData = {
  invoiceItems: [
    { item: "Website Design", amount: 5000 },
    { item: "Hosting (3 months)", amount: 2000 },
    { item: "Domain (1 year)", amount: 1000 },
  ],
  invoiceData: {
    invoice_id: 123,
    transaction_id: 1234567,
    payment_method: "Paypal",
    creation_date: "04-05-1993",
    total_amount: 8000,
  },
  baseUrl: "https://ultimateakash.com",
};
const html = await htmlPDF.readFile(__dirname + "/sample.html", "utf8");
const template = hbs.compile(html);
const content = template(pdfData);

try {
  const pdfBuffer = await htmlPDF.create(content);
  const filePath = `${__dirname}/sample.pdf`;
  await htmlPDF.writeFile(pdfBuffer, filePath);
} catch (error) {
  console.log("PuppeteerHTMLPDF error", error);
}

Example 2

const PuppeteerHTMLPDF = require("puppeteer-html-pdf");

const htmlPDF = new PuppeteerHTMLPDF();
const options = {
  format: "A4",
  path: `${__dirname}/sample.pdf`, // you can pass path to save the file
};
htmlPDF.setOptions(options);

const content = "<style> h1 {color:red;} </style> <h1>Welcome to puppeteer-html-pdf</h1>";

try {
  await htmlPDF.create(content);
} catch (error) {
  console.log("PuppeteerHTMLPDF error", error);
}

Example 3

const PuppeteerHTMLPDF = require("puppeteer-html-pdf");

const htmlPDF = new PuppeteerHTMLPDF();
const options = {
  width: "219mm",
  height: "297mm",
  margin: {
    left: "25px",
    right: "25px",
    top: "20px",
  },
  path: `${__dirname}/sample.pdf`, // you can pass path to save the file
  browserWSEndpoint: "wss://chrome.browserless.io?token=YOUR_TOKEN",
};
htmlPDF.setOptions(options);

const content = "https://www.google.com";

try {
  await htmlPDF.create(content);
} catch (error) {
  console.log("PuppeteerHTMLPDF error", error);
}

Example 4

const PuppeteerHTMLPDF = require("puppeteer-html-pdf");

const htmlPDF = new PuppeteerHTMLPDF();
htmlPDF.setOptions({ format: "A4", timeout: 60000 });
htmlPDF.setAutoCloseBrowser(false);

const urls = [
  "https://www.google.com",
  "https://www.yahoo.com",
  "https://www.bing.com",
  "https://www.yandex.com",
  "https://www.duckduckgo.com",
  "https://www.ask.com",
  "https://www.aol.com",
];
try {
  const pdfPromises = urls.map(async (url, index) => {
    const pdfBuffer = await htmlPDF.create(url);

    const filePath = `${__dirname}/PDF_${index + 1}.pdf`;
    await htmlPDF.writeFile(pdfBuffer, filePath);

    console.log(`Generated PDF from ${url}`);
  });

  await Promise.all(pdfPromises);
} catch (error) {
  console.log("PuppeteerHTMLPDF error", error);
} finally {
  await htmlPDF.closeBrowser();
}

Example 5

const PuppeteerHTMLPDF = require("puppeteer-html-pdf");

const htmlPDF = new PuppeteerHTMLPDF();
htmlPDF.setOptions({ format: "A4" });

const content1 = "https://www.google.com";
const content2 = "https://www.yahoo.com";

try {
  htmlPDF.setAutoCloseBrowser(false);
  const pdfBuffer1 = await htmlPDF.create(content1);
  const filePath1 = `${__dirname}/google.pdf`;
  await htmlPDF.writeFile(pdfBuffer1, filePath1);

  const pdfBuffer2 = await htmlPDF.create(content2);
  const filePath2 = `${__dirname}/yahoo.pdf`;
  await htmlPDF.writeFile(pdfBuffer2, filePath2);
} catch (error) {
  console.log("PuppeteerHTMLPDF error", error);
} finally {
  await htmlPDF.closeBrowser();
}

Options

Property	Modifiers	Type	Description	Default
displayHeaderFooter	optional	boolean	Whether to show the header and footer.	false
footerTemplate	optional	string	HTML template for the print footer. Has the same constraints and support for special classes as PDFOptions.headerTemplate.
format	optional	PaperFormat		letter.
headerTemplate	optional	string	HTML template for the print header. Should be valid HTML with the following classes used to inject values into them: - date formatted print date - title document title - url document location - pageNumber current page number - totalPages total pages in the document
height	optional	string | number	Sets the height of paper. You can pass in a number or a string with a unit.
landscape	optional	boolean	Whether to print in landscape orientation.	false
margin	optional	PDFMargin	Set the PDF margins.	undefined no margins are set.
omitBackground	optional	boolean	Hides default white background and allows generating pdfs with transparency.	false
pageRanges	optional	string	Paper ranges to print, e.g. 1-5, 8, 11-13.	The empty string, which means all pages are printed.
path	optional	string	The path to save the file to.	undefined, which means the PDF will not be written to disk.
preferCSSPageSize	optional	boolean	Give any CSS @page size declared in the page priority over what is declared in the width or height or format option.	false, which will scale the content to fit the paper size.
printBackground	optional	boolean	Set to true to print background graphics.	true
scale	optional	number	Scales the rendering of the web page. Amount must be between 0.1 and 2.	1
timeout	optional	number	Timeout in milliseconds. Pass 0 to disable timeout.	30_000
width	optional	string | number	Sets the width of paper. You can pass in a number or a string with a unit.
headless	optional	boolean | string	Sets Chromium launch mode.	new
args	optional	array	Sets Chromium flags mode.	['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox']
authorization	optional	string	HTTP header to be sent with every request.
headers	optional	{ [key]: value }	HTTP header to be sent with every request.
browserWSEndpoint	optional	string	WS Endpoint(wss://chrome.browserless.io?token=YOUR_TOKEN).
executablePath	optional	string	Executable path(C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe).

Format

The sizes of each format are as follows:

• Letter: 8.5in x 11in

• Legal: 8.5in x 14in

• Tabloid: 11in x 17in

• Ledger: 17in x 11in

• A0: 33.1in x 46.8in

• A1: 23.4in x 33.1in

• A2: 16.54in x 23.4in

• A3: 11.7in x 16.54in

• A4: 8.27in x 11.7in

• A5: 5.83in x 8.27in

• A6: 4.13in x 5.83in

Margin

Property	Modifiers	Type
bottom	optional	string | number
left	optional	string | number
right	optional	string | number
top	optional	string | number

Linux Troubleshooting

Install chromium

sudo apt update

sudo apt install chromium

After chromium installation, if you still get missing dependencies issue. Install below dependencies.

sudo apt install ca-certificates fonts-liberation libasound2 libatk-bridge2.0-0 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgbm1 libgcc1 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libnss3 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6 lsb-release wget xdg-utils

https://pptr.dev/troubleshooting#chrome-headless-doesnt-launch-on-unix