Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be converting html files to pdf using pdfkit library. For this purpose we will be using python. All the full source code of the application is shown below.

Get Started

In order to get started we need to install the following library by using the pip command

pip install pdfkit

After installing this library you need to install wkhtmltopdf application from their official website specially if you are on windows

If you are linux you will use this command to install this software as shown below

sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf

Now after installing in windows you need to set the path variable like this. First of all we will find the full path of the wkhtmltopdf inside program files just copy this path and then add this to system path variable as shown in the below figure.

After setting the path variable just create an app.py file and copy paste the following code

app.py

So here we are converting the test.html to out.pdf so we are taking the local html file and then this python script converts the html file to pdf files using pdfkit library as shown below.

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

After this we will be converting the website url to pdf document using pdfkit in the below example

import pdfkit 
pdfkit.from_url('https://www.google.co.in/','google.pdf')