chrome-pdf-printer

Print webpage as PDF via headless Chrome. This is a cli app build with html-pdf-chrome.

Usage

chrome-pdf-printer [options] --url <webpage_url> --save </path/to/pdf/filename.pdf>

Run chrome-pdf-printer --help to see all command options.

CompletionTrigger support

There are a few CompletionTrigger types in html-pdf-chrome that wait for something to occur before triggering PDF printing, see details here.

Timer, Element, Variable are supported in this project. The related command options are:

--printTrigger           # Trigger type: timer, element or variable
--triggerTimeout         # Milliseconds to wait for. Only effective for type Timer. Defaults to 7000ms.
--triggerElement         # Name of the DOM element to wait for, like 'div#myElement'. Only effective for type Element. Defaults to '#htmlPdfDone'.
--triggerVariable        # Name of the variable to wait for. Only effective for type Variable. Defaults to 'htmlPdfDone'.

Examples

# convert a webpage to pdf
chrome-pdf-printer \
  --url https://typo.sofi.sh \
  --save /home/username/test.pdf
# include background, and no margins
chrome-pdf-printer \
  --print-background \
  --margin-top 0 --margin-bottom 0 --margin-left 0 --margin-right 0 \
  --url https://typo.sofi.sh \
  --save /home/username/test.pdf
# set paper size
chrome-pdf-printer \
  --print-background \
  --paper-width 8.3 --paper-height 11.7 \
  --url https://typo.sofi.sh \
  --save /home/username/test.pdf
# set chrome flags
chrome-pdf-printer \
  --chrome-flags=--headless \
  --chrome-flags=--disable-gpu \
  --chrome-flags=--hide-scrollbars \
  --url https://typo.sofi.sh \
  --save /home/username/test.pdf