Welcome folks today in this post we will be downloading geeksforgeeks.org articles as pdf documents in python using selenium. All the source code of the application will be given as below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to install the following library using the pip command as shown below

pip install selenium

After that make an app.py file and copy paste the following code

app.py

# !/usr/bin/env python
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
import json
import requests


# article url
# URL = "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/what-can-i-do-with-python/"


def get_driver():
    # chrome options settings
    chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
    settings = {
        "recentDestinations": [
            {"id": "Save as PDF", "origin": "local", "account": ""}
        ],
        "selectedDestinationId": "Save as PDF",
        "version": 2,
    }
    prefs = {
        "download.default_directory": r"downloads",
  "download.prompt_for_download": False,
  "download.directory_upgrade": True,
  "safebrowsing.enabled": True
    }
    chrome_options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)
    chrome_options.add_argument("--kiosk-printing")

    # launch browser with predefined settings
    browser = webdriver.Chrome(
        executable_path=ChromeDriverManager().install(), options=chrome_options
    )
    return browser


def download_article(URL):
    browser = get_driver()
    browser.get(URL)

    # launch print and save as pdf
    browser.execute_script("window.print();")
    browser.close()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    URL = input("provide article URL: ")
    # check if the url is valid/reachable
    if requests.get(URL).status_code == 200:
        try:
            download_article(URL)
            print("Your article is successfully downloaded")
        except Exception as e:
            print(e)
    else:
        print("Enter a valid  working URL")

And now just make a downloads folder inside the root directory and then run this python script using the below command

python app.py