PDF Generation API Documentation

This API allows you to generate PDF files from web pages using Express and Puppeteer.

Warning

This API is not deployed, the request of api returns a 500 http error

How to Use

Requirements

• Installed Node.js
• npm or yarn installed

Installation

1. Clone the repository or create a new directory for the project.
2. Inside the project directory, initialize a new Node.js project:

npm init -y

3. Install the necessary dependencies (Express and Puppeteer):

npm install express puppeteer

or

yarn add express puppeteer

Usage

To generate a PDF from a web page, make a GET request to the /generate-pdf endpoint with the following query parameters:

• url: The URL of the web page to be converted to PDF.
• filename (optional): The desired name for the PDF file (without the ".pdf" extension).

Example:

GET http://localhost:3000/generate-pdf?url=https://example.com&filename=myfile

This will generate a PDF file from the specified page and initiate the download with the specified name.