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Dragon317Slayer
Dragon317Slayer

Reputation: 43

How to download a web page as a PDF using Python?

I want to make a script that can download a website as a PDF. the user should be able to enter a URL (https://stackoverflow.com/) and a file path for the PDF to download to (c:\Bob\PDF).

This is my code so far:

import requests
import pdfkit

url = input("Please enter the url of the file you want to download.")
pdf = pdfkit.from_url(url, "file.pdf")
path = input("Please enter the file path that you would like the file to 
download to. c:\Bob\PDF is an example of a valid file path.")

print("Download starting.")
r = requests.get(pdf)

with open(path, 'wb') as f:
    f.write(r.content)

For some reason, the PDF doesn't download. I think I need to first convert the web page to HTML, and then convert it to a PDF so it can download, but I'm not sure how to go about doing this. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 11020

Answers (1)

Maxxer
Maxxer

Reputation: 130

First of all method 

from_url from module 'pdfkit'

returns True when called.

After executing this line pdf = pdfkit.from_url(url, "file.pdf") value of pdf is True or False depending on downloading and creating the file.

So this line r = requests.get(pdf) is evalueated to r = requests.get(True) Which cannot be executed properly.

Basically you only need to ask the user for url and path to the file

url = input("Please enter the url of the file you want to download.")
path = input("Please enter the file path ex. C:\Jim\Desktop")
file_name = input("Please enter file name")
if pdfkit.from_url(str(url), str(path + file_name)): # Check if method from_url returned True
    print("Sucessfully created pdf from url")
else:
    print("Something went wrong")

Upvotes: 7

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