This tool aims to print pages from a website into PDF files.
To achieve that, the website must follow the sitemap protocol.
NB: this tool was originally created to print pages from a Hugo website, that's why the default value of the sitemap URL to check is http://localhost:1313.
- Website2pdf will crawl the website based on the sitemapUrl option to retrieve all URLs that have to be printed
- Website2pdf will add header/footer in each file based on the displayHeaderFooter option, and use header.html and footer.html if found in the directory based on the templateDir option.
- Website2pdf will save all PDF file in the directory based on the outputDir option.
- Generated PDFs are named using the
<title>html tag by default (unless specific option is used)
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Usage: website2pdf [options]
NB1: Website2Pdf will search for header.html and footer.html files from the template-dir and use them respectively as
header and footer definition when printing PDFs.
NB2: Margins have default values depending on the option used:
===> when display-header-footer=true
- margin-top = margin-bottom = 50px
- margin-left = margin-right = 0px
===> when display-header-footer=false
- margin-top = margin-bottom = 0px
- margin-left = margin-right = 0px
Common options:
--chromiumFlags, --chromium-flags Chromium flags set at Puppeteer launch [string]
--chromiumHeadless, --chromium-headless Chromium headless option set at Puppeteer launch
[string] [default: "shell"]
--displayHeaderFooter, --display-header-footer Turn on header and footer printing [boolean] [default: false]
--excludeUrls, --exclude-urls Exclude urls matching a regex from printing process [string]
--format, --format Set PaperFormat of generated PDF [string] [default: "a4"]
--marginBottom, --margin-bottom Margin bottom (50px or 0px) [string]
--marginLeft, --margin-left Margin left [string] [default: "0px"]
--marginRight, --margin-right Margin right [string] [default: "0px"]
--marginTop, --margin-top Margin top (50px or 0px) [string]
--mergeAll, --merge-all Merge all PDF generated into a single one (merged.pdf)
[boolean]
-o, --outputDir, --output-dir Relative path of the output directory
[default: "./w2pdf_output"]
--outputFileNameUrlMap, --output-file-name-url-map Output file name to URL map in JSON format
(urlToFileNameMap.json) [boolean]
--processPool, --process-pool Pool of parallelized process [number] [default: 10]
--safeTitle, --safe-title Safely generate file title by replacing special chars
[boolean] [default: false]
--serveSitemap, --serve-sitemap Serve local sitemap [string]
-s, --sitemapUrl, --sitemap-url Sitemap URL
[string] [default: "http://localhost:1313/sitemap.xml"]
-t, --templateDir, --template-dir Relative path of the templates directory
[default: "./w2pdf_template"]
--urlTitle, --url-title Generate file title using last URL fragment
[boolean] [default: false]
--waitUntil, --wait-until Comma-separated list of PuppeteerLifeCycleEvent used to wait
until specific event is fired on page
[string] [default: "domcontentloaded,networkidle2"]
Other Options:
--debug Turn on debug logging [boolean] [default: false]
-v, --version Show version number [boolean]
-h, --help Show help [boolean]
Examples:
website2pdf --chromium-flags="--no-sandbox Use specific chromium options at Puppeteer launch
--disable-dev-shm-usage"
website2pdf --chromium-headless="true" Use specific chromium headless option at Puppeteer
launch
website2pdf --display-header-footer Print PDFs with header and footer
website2pdf --display-header-footer --margin-left="50px" Use header and footer and set specific margins
--margin-right="50px"
website2pdf --exclude-urls="\/fr\/" Exclude urls of french language
website2pdf --format="a3" Set PaperFormat type
website2pdf --merge-all Merge all PDF generated into a single one (merged.pdf)
website2pdf --output-dir="./output" Use specific output directory
website2pdf --output-file-name-url-map Output file name to URL map in JSON format
(urlToFileNameMap.json)
website2pdf --process-pool=20 Use specific count of parallelized process
website2pdf --safe-title Safely generate file title by replacing special chars
website2pdf --serve-sitemap="sitemap.xml" Serve a local sitemap
website2pdf --sitemap-url="http://localhost:80/sitemap.xml" Use specific sitemap URL
website2pdf --template-dir="./templates" Use specific template directory
website2pdf --url-title Generate file title using last URL fragment
website2pdf --wait-until='domcontentloaded,networkidle0' Wait until both domcontentloaded and networkidle0 events
are fired on page
Additional information:
GitHub: https://github.com/jgazeau/website2pdf.git
Documentation: https://github.com/jgazeau/website2pdf#readme
Issues: https://github.com/jgazeau/website2pdf/issues
$ npx website2pdf
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2022-01-01 00:00:00.000 INFO Printing 2 PDF(s) to w2pdf_output\fr
2022-01-01 00:00:00.000 INFO Printing 2 PDF(s) to w2pdf_output\en
2022-01-01 00:00:00.000 INFO
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Results summary │
├─────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────┬─────────┤
│ URL │ PDF file │ Status │
├─────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│ / │ w2pdf_output/en/Homepage.pdf │ PRINTED │
├─────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│ /fr/ │ w2pdf_output/fr/Homepage.pdf │ PRINTED │
├─────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│ /first-page/ │ w2pdf_output/en/First_page.pdf │ PRINTED │
├─────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│ /fr/first-page/ │ w2pdf_output/fr/Première_page.pdf │ PRINTED │
└─────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────┴─────────┘
You can choose the page dimension / page size with the --pageSize option. The default size is A4 but can be any PaperFormat.
To include specific header and footer in PDF pages, two HTML files must be provided, named respectively header.html and footer.html (in ./w2pdf_template by default).
Because of a limitation in puppeteer, a default margin must be set (at least for top and bottom) to display headers and footers.
By default website2pdf is setting the following margins depending on the displayHeaderFooter option (these default values can be override using the marginX options of website2pdf):
displayHeaderFooter=false⬌ 0px 0px ⬌ ┌──┬───────────┬───┐ │ │ │ │⬍ 0px ├──┼───────────┼───┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├──┼───────────┼───┤ │ │ │ │⬍ 0px └──┴───────────┴───┘displayHeaderFooter=true⬌ 0px 0px ⬌ ┌──┬───────────┬───┐ │ │ │ │⬍ 50px ├──┼───────────┼───┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├──┼───────────┼───┤ │ │ │ │⬍ 50px └──┴───────────┴───┘
The following types of configurations are available to expand header and footer:
- standard options of headerTemplate and footerTemplate from Puppeteer
- expanded variables from meta tags of HTML page:
- Given the following HTML meta tag (using a
${META_KEY}as a placeholder):And the following header and/or footer template:<meta name="specificKey" content="A specific value">The result template will be:... <span>${specificKey}</span> ...... <span>A specific value</span> ...
- Given the following HTML meta tag (using a
- images encoded as base64 from local files (:warning: only available for png files):
- Given the following header and/or footer template (using a
${image:PATH}as a placeholder):The result template will be:... <image src="${image:./local_image_path/image.png}"> ...... <image src="data:image/png;base64,XXXXXXXXXXXXXX"> ...
- Given the following header and/or footer template (using a