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How to convert web page to PDF from URL for HTML to PDF API in VB.NET and ByteScout Cloud API Server

Learn to write code convert web page to PDF from URL for HTML to PDF API in VB.NET: Simple How To Tutorial

This page displays the step-by-step instructions and algorithm of how to convert web page to PDF from URL and how to apply it in your application. ByteScout Cloud API Server was designed to assist HTML to PDF API in VB.NET. ByteScout Cloud API Server is API server that is ready to use and can be installed and deployed in less than 30 minutes on your own Windows server or server in a cloud. It can save data and files on your local server-based file storage or in Amazon AWS S3 storage. Data is processed solely on the API server and is powered by ByteScout engine, no cloud services or Internet connection is required for data processing..

If you want to speed up the application’s code writing then VB.NET code samples for VB.NET developers help to implement using ByteScout Cloud API Server. Open your VB.NET project and simply copy & paste the code and then run your app! This basic programming language sample code for VB.NET will do the whole work for you in implementing HTML to PDF API in your app.

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

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Module1.vb
      
Imports System.IO Imports System.Net Imports Newtonsoft.Json.Linq ' 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. Module Module1 ' URL of web page to convert to PDF document. const SourceUrl as String = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" ' Destination PDF file name Const DestinationFile As String = ".\result.pdf" Sub Main() ' Create standard .NET web client instance Dim webClient As WebClient = New WebClient() ' Prepare URL for `Web Page to PDF` API call Dim query As String = Uri.EscapeUriString(String.Format( "https://localhost/pdf/convert/from/url?name={0}&url={1}", Path.GetFileName(DestinationFile), SourceUrl)) Try ' Execute request Dim response As String = webClient.DownloadString(query) ' Parse JSON response Dim json As JObject = JObject.Parse(response) If json("error").ToObject(Of Boolean) = False Then ' Get URL of generated PDF file Dim resultFileUrl As String = json("url").ToString() ' Download PDF file webClient.DownloadFile(resultFileUrl, DestinationFile) Console.WriteLine("Generated PDF file saved as ""{0}"" file.", DestinationFile) Else Console.WriteLine(json("message").ToString()) End If Catch ex As WebException Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString()) End Try webClient.Dispose() Console.WriteLine() Console.WriteLine("Press any key...") Console.ReadKey() End Sub End Module

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packages.config
      
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <packages> <package id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="10.0.3" targetFramework="net40" /> </packages>

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