wkhtmltopdf can directly convert any webpage that can be browsed in the browser into a pdf

1. Download and install wkhtmltopdf

1. Download address: http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html as shown in the figure:

2. There are installation packages installed under various platforms. If the English is not good, please translate directly by Google. The following is an example of use on the windows7 platform. I downloaded the stable (stable version) version of wkhtmltopdf-0.12.3.2-installer.exe. I did not install and test on win7, win8 32-bit and 64-bit and win-sever. The problem is that the system downloads the installation packages of several people. After downloading, you can install it directly. Pay attention to the installation path, which will be used below.

3. After installation, you need to add after the system environment variable named "Path": ;D:\wkhtmltopdf\bin is the directory you installed. Restart the computer after installation.
The following figure shows how to set environment variables:

Open my computer right click properties

Click Advanced system settings

Find Advanced and click Environment Variables

Find the path in the system variables, click Edit, copy the installation location just now to the end, remember to add a semicolon in front!

Two, test the effect
directly enter in cmd: wkhtmltopdf http://www.baidu.com/ D:website1.pdf (note there is a space in the middle)
The first is: the name of the running software (this is unchanged) The second is the URL and the third is the path and file name after generation. After you press Enter, is there a prompt to generate a progress bar? Congratulations on your success. Go to your generation directory to see if there is a newly generated pdf file.
Operation method: 1. Open the search box with windows key + r, enter cmd, and click OK

2. Enter directly in cmd: wkhtmltopdf http://www.baidu.com/ D:website1.pdf (note there is a space in the middle)

3. After you click Enter, you will see a progress bar, and then it will prompt the successful conversion!

Second, install the python library

pip install pdfkit

API https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdfkit

use:

import pdfkit

pdfkit.from_url('http://baidu.com', 'out.pdf')
pdfkit.from_file('test.html', 'out.pdf')
pdfkit.from_string('Hello!', 'out.pdf')