ByteScout Cloud API Server – HTML To PDF API – JavaScript – Convert Web Page To PDF From Link (Node.js)

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How to convert web page to PDF from link (node for HTML to PDF API in JavaScript using ByteScout Cloud API Server

How to convert web page to PDF from link (node in JavaScript with easy ByteScout code samples to make HTML to PDF API. Step-by-step tutorial

Writing of the code to convert web page to PDF from link (node in JavaScript can be done by developers of any level using ByteScout Cloud API Server. ByteScout Cloud API Server was designed to assist HTML to PDF API in JavaScript. ByteScout Cloud API Server is the ready to deploy Web API Server that can be deployed in less than thirty minutes into your own in-house Windows server (no Internet connnection is required to process data!) or into private cloud server. Can store data on in-house local server based storage or in Amazon AWS S3 bucket. Processing data solely on the server using built-in ByteScout powered engine, no cloud services are used to process your data!.

If you want to speed up the application’s code writing then JavaScript code samples for JavaScript developers help to implement using ByteScout Cloud API Server. For implementation of this functionality, please copy and paste the code below into your app using code editor. Then compile and run your app. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

Trial version of ByteScout is available for free download from our website. This and other source code samples for JavaScript and other programming languages are available.

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app.js

      // Please NOTE: In this sample we're assuming Cloud Api Server is hosted at "https://localhost". 
// If it's not then please replace this with with your hosting url.

var https = require("https");
var path = require("path");
var fs = require("fs");

// URL of web page to convert to PDF document.
const SourceUrl = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page";
// Destination PDF file name
const DestinationFile = "./result.pdf";

// Prepare request to `Web Page to PDF` API endpoint
var queryPath = `/pdf/convert/from/url?name=${path.basename(DestinationFile)}&url=${SourceUrl}`;
var reqOptions = {
    host: "localhost",
    path: encodeURI(queryPath)
};
// Send request
https.get(reqOptions, (response) => {
    response.on("data", (d) => {
        // Parse JSON response
        var data = JSON.parse(d);        
        if (data.error == false) {
            // Download PDF file
            var file = fs.createWriteStream(DestinationFile);
            https.get(data.url, (response2) => {
                response2.pipe(file)
                .on("close", () => {
                    console.log(`Generated PDF file saved as "${DestinationFile}" file.`);
                });
            });
        }
        else {
            // Service reported error
            console.log(data.message);
        }
    });
}).on("error", (e) => {
    // Request error
    console.log(e);
});

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package.json

      {
  "name": "test",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "PDF.co",
  "main": "app.js",
  "scripts": {
  },
  "keywords": [
    "pdf.co",
    "web",
    "api",
    "bytescout",
    "api"
  ],
  "author": "ByteScout & PDF.co",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "request": "^2.88.2"
  }
}