Weasyprint as a service
POST https://api.pdfbroker.io/api/pdf/weasyprint
This is our premium pdf service with support for css paged media and html 5. Pdf version up to 1.7 is supported and pdf types pdf/a-1b, pdf/a-2b, pdf/a-3b, pdf/a-4b and pdf/ua-1 are supported. This service requires a paid subscription. New accounts gets a 14 days trial period.
Example generating pdf from url
Example of generating pdf/ua-1 document.
{
"url": "https://www.pdfbroker.io",
"weasyPrintToPdfArguments": {
"pdf-variant": "pdf/ua-1"
}
}
Example generating pdf from inline markup
Example of generating pdf document using inline markup encoded as base64, and providing an image as a resource in the resources object
{
"url": null,
"htmlBase64String": "PCFET0NUWVBFIGh0bWw.... Content removed for readability.",
"weasyPrintToPdfArguments": {
"pdf-variant": "pdf/ua-1"
},
"resources": { "pdfbroker_logo.svg": "PHN2ZyBpZD0iTGFnZXJfMS.... Content removed for readability" }
}
Ignored Weasyprint arguments
There are a few parameters to Weasyprint that is ignored by our api for security reasons or because they make no sense using when you don't have access to standard output.
The following arguments will not be passed on to Weasyprint:
- v
- verbose
- version
- d
- debug
- q
- quiet
- h
- help
- u
- f
- format
Valid Weasyprint arguments
All arguments that are not listed above will be sent on to Weasyprint. For a full list of arguments please checkout the Weasyprint documentation https://doc.courtbouillon.org/weasyprint/stable/api_reference.html#command-line-api
Open API/Swagger specification
Full specification and more examples available on our Swagger page