How to convert webpage into PDF by using Python

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Mark K picture Mark K · Apr 29, 2014 · Viewed 183k times · Source

I was finding solution to print webpage into local file PDF, using Python. one of the good solution is to use Qt, found here, https://bharatikunal.wordpress.com/2010/01/.

It didn't work at the beginning as I had problem with the installation of PyQt4 because it gave error messages such as 'ImportError: No module named PyQt4.QtCore', and 'ImportError: No module named PyQt4.QtCore'.

It was because PyQt4's not installed properly. I used to have the libraries located at C:\Python27\Lib however it's not for PyQt4.

In fact, it simply needs to download from http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download (mind the correct Python version you are using), and install it to C:\Python27 (my case). That's it.

Now the scripts runs fine so I want to share it. for more options in using Qprinter, please refer to http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qprinter.html#Orientation-enum.

Answer

NorthCat picture NorthCat · May 20, 2014

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

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