Pdfkit OSError: No wkhtmltopdf executable found

python python-3.x wkhtmltopdf pdfkit
MD. Khairul Basar picture MD. Khairul Basar · Feb 23, 2017 · Viewed 11k times · Source

I'm trying to convert a webpage to PDF, using pdfkit but it shows following error

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<ipython-input-39-33289a2ef087>", line 1, in <module>
runfile('H:/Python/Practice/pdf_read_write.py', wdir='H:/Python/Practice')

  File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\site\sitecustomize.py", line 866, in runfile
execfile(filename, namespace)

  File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\site\sitecustomize.py", line 102, in execfile
exec(compile(f.read(), filename, 'exec'), namespace)

  File "H:/Python/Practice/pdf_read_write.py", line 10, in <module>
config = pdfkit.configuration(wkhtmltopdf="C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe")

  File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pdfkit\api.py", line 83, in configuration
return Configuration(**kwargs)

  File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pdfkit\configuration.py", line 27, in __init__
'https://github.com/JazzCore/python-pdfkit/wiki/Installing-wkhtmltopdf' % self.wkhtmltopdf)

OSError: No wkhtmltopdf executable found: "C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdin\wkhtmltopdf.exe"
If this file exists please check that this process can read it. Otherwise please install wkhtmltopdf - https://github.com/JazzCore/python-pdfkit/wiki/Installing-wkhtmltopdf

I have downloaded wkhtmktopdf from Here and installed. Added the path to environment variable but still shows the same error.
I have tried configuring pdfkit but nothing worked.

Here is my code:

import pdfkit
config = pdfkit.configuration(wkhtmltopdf="C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe")
pdfkit.from_url("http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/convex-hull-set-2-graham-scan/", "out.pdf",configuration=config)

How to solve this issue ??

Answer

Wondercricket picture Wondercricket · Feb 23, 2017

Your config path contains an ASCII Backspace, the \b in \bin, which pdfkit appears to be stripping out and converting C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe to C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\wkhtmltopdf.exe.

This can be resolved by using r, which makes it a raw literal

config_path = r'C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe'

or \\

config_path = 'C:\\Program Files\\wkhtmltopdf\\bin\\wkhtmltopdf.exe'

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