How to convert webpage into PDF by using Python

here is the one working fine:

import sys 
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import * 
from PyQt4.QtWebKit import * 

app = QApplication(sys.argv)
web = QWebView()
web.load(QUrl("http://www.yahoo.com"))
printer = QPrinter()
printer.setPageSize(QPrinter.A4)
printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter.PdfFormat)
printer.setOutputFileName("fileOK.pdf")

def convertIt():
    web.print_(printer)
    print("Pdf generated")
    QApplication.exit()

QObject.connect(web, SIGNAL("loadFinished(bool)"), convertIt)
sys.exit(app.exec_())

You also can use pdfkit:

Usage

import pdfkit
pdfkit.from_url('http://google.com', 'out.pdf')

Install

MacOS: brew install Caskroom/cask/wkhtmltopdf

Debian/Ubuntu: apt-get install wkhtmltopdf

Windows: choco install wkhtmltopdf

See official documentation for MacOS/Ubuntu/other OS: https://github.com/JazzCore/python-pdfkit/wiki/Installing-wkhtmltopdf

Here is a simple solution using QT. I found this as part of an answer to a different question on StackOverFlow. I tested it on Windows.

from PyQt4.QtGui import QTextDocument, QPrinter, QApplication

import sys
app = QApplication(sys.argv)

doc = QTextDocument()
location = "c://apython//Jim//html//notes.html"
html = open(location).read()
doc.setHtml(html)

printer = QPrinter()
printer.setOutputFileName("foo.pdf")
printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter.PdfFormat)
printer.setPageSize(QPrinter.A4);
printer.setPageMargins (15,15,15,15,QPrinter.Millimeter);

doc.print_(printer)
print "done!"

WeasyPrint

pip install weasyprint  # No longer supports Python 2.x.

python
>>> import weasyprint
>>> pdf = weasyprint.HTML('http://www.google.com').write_pdf()
>>> len(pdf)
92059
>>> open('google.pdf', 'wb').write(pdf)

Per this answer: How to convert webpage into PDF by using Python, the advice was to use pdfkit. You also have to install wkhtmltopdf.

If you have a local .html file, you then need to use this command:

pdfkit.from_file('test.html', 'out.pdf')

But this will throw an error if you haven’t added the wkhtmltopdf executables to your system path. This was the part that tripped me up and I wanted to share.

On Windows, open your environment variables and add them to your System variables > Path like below. In my case, these .exe files were located here after I installed the wkhtmltopdf from an exe:

C:Program Fileswkhtmltopdfbin

I tried @NorthCat answer using pdfkit.

It required wkhtmltopdf to be installed. The install can be downloaded from here. https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html

Install the executable file. Then write a line to indicate where wkhtmltopdf is, like below. (referenced from Can't create pdf using python PDFKIT Error : " No wkhtmltopdf executable found:"

import pdfkit


path_wkthmltopdf = "C:\Folder\where\wkhtmltopdf.exe"
config = pdfkit.configuration(wkhtmltopdf = path_wkthmltopdf)

pdfkit.from_url("http://google.com", "out.pdf", configuration=config)

If you use selenium and chromium, you do not need to manage cookies by you self, and you can generate pdf page from chromium’s print as pdf.
You can refer this project to realize it.
https://github.com/maxvst/python-selenium-chrome-html-to-pdf-converter

modified base > https://github.com/maxvst/python-selenium-chrome-html-to-pdf-converter/blob/master/sample/html_to_pdf_converter.py

import sys
import json, base64


def send_devtools(driver, cmd, params={}):
    resource = "/session/%s/chromium/send_command_and_get_result" % driver.session_id
    url = driver.command_executor._url + resource
    body = json.dumps({'cmd': cmd, 'params': params})
    response = driver.command_executor._request('POST', url, body)
    return response.get('value')


def get_pdf_from_html(driver, url, print_options={}, output_file_path="example.pdf"):
    driver.get(url)

    calculated_print_options = {
        'landscape': False,
        'displayHeaderFooter': False,
        'printBackground': True,
        'preferCSSPageSize': True,
    }
    calculated_print_options.update(print_options)
    result = send_devtools(driver, "Page.printToPDF", calculated_print_options)
    data = base64.b64decode(result['data'])
    with open(output_file_path, "wb") as f:
        f.write(data)



# example
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

url = "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23359083/how-to-convert-webpage-into-pdf-by-using-python#"
webdriver_options = Options()
webdriver_options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
webdriver_options.add_argument('--headless')
webdriver_options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver, options=webdriver_options)
get_pdf_from_html(driver, url)
driver.quit()

This solution worked for me using PyQt5 version 5.15.0

import sys
from PyQt5 import QtWidgets, QtWebEngineWidgets
from PyQt5.QtCore import QUrl
from PyQt5.QtGui import QPageLayout, QPageSize
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
    loader = QtWebEngineWidgets.QWebEngineView()
    loader.setZoomFactor(1)
    layout = QPageLayout()
    layout.setPageSize(QPageSize(QPageSize.A4Extra))
    layout.setOrientation(QPageLayout.Portrait)
    loader.load(QUrl('https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23359083/how-to-convert-webpage-into-pdf-by-using-python'))
    loader.page().pdfPrintingFinished.connect(lambda *args: QApplication.exit())

    def emit_pdf(finished):
        loader.page().printToPdf("test.pdf", pageLayout=layout)

    loader.loadFinished.connect(emit_pdf)
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

As explained by another answer; if you have .html files locally you can use the following:

pdfkit.from_file('abc.html', 'abc.pdf')

Additionally, if your source html file has img tags src should be the relative path and you have to include this option to allow local file access.

pdfkit.from_file('abc.html', 'abc.pdf',options={"enable-local-file-access": ""})

Otherwise you may run into the following error

OSError: wkhtmltopdf reported an error: Exit with code 1 due to
network error: ProtocolUnknownError

Source:
https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/issues/2660#issuecomment-663063752

pdfkit error: Exit with code 1 due to network error: ProtocolUnknownError