ByteScout Cloud API Server – PDF Information API – JavaScript – Get PDF Info From URL (Node.js)

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ByteScout Cloud API Server – PDF Information API – JavaScript – Get PDF Info From URL (Node.js)

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How to get PDF info from URL (node for PDF information API in JavaScript and ByteScout Cloud API Server

Learn in simple ways: How to get PDF info from URL (node for PDF information API in JavaScript

On this page, you will find sample source codes which show you how to handle a complex task, such as, PDF information API in JavaScript. PDF information API in JavaScript can be applied with ByteScout Cloud API Server. ByteScout Cloud API Server is the ready to use Web API Server that can be deployed in less than 30 minutes into your own in-house server 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 buil-in ByteScout powered engine, no cloud services are used to process your data!.

Want to learn quickly? These fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout Cloud API Server for JavaScript plus the instruction and the code below will help to learn how to get PDF info from URL (node. Open your JavaScript project and simply copy & paste the code and then run your app! Easy to understand tutorials are available along with installed ByteScout Cloud API Server if you’d like to learn more about the topic and the details of the API.

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");

// Direct URL of PDF file to get information
const SourceFileUrl = "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-info/sample.pdf";

// Prepare request to `PDF Info` API endpoint
var queryPath = `/pdf/info?url=${SourceFileUrl}`;
var reqOptions = {
    host: "localhost",
    path: encodeURI(queryPath)
};
// Send request
https.get(reqOptions, (response) => {
    response.on("data", (d) => {
        // Parse JSON response
        var data = JSON.parse(d);        
        if (data.error == false) {
            // Display PDF document information
            for (var key in data.info) {  
                console.log(`${key}: ${data.info[key]}`);
            }  
        }
        else {
            // Service reported error
            console.log(data.message);
        }
    });
}).on("error", (e) => {
    // Request error
    console.error(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"
  }
}