View Source Api2pdf
Unofficial API client for PDF generator/converter service https://www.api2pdf.com.
At this point only features that are related to PDF generation and conversion are supported as those are the ones that I'm currently using personally.
Contribution are welcomed to add missing features or simply open a ticket for feature requests. If you're looking for API clients in other languages please check their official repository.
Below are lists of features that are supported and those that are not, grouped by their engine:
headless-chrome
Headless Chrome
- [x] html_to_image (
Api2pdf.Chrome.html_to_image/2) - [x] html_to_pdf (
Api2pdf.Chrome.html_to_pdf/2) - [x] url_to_image (
Api2pdf.Chrome.url_to_image/2) - [x] url_to_pdf(
Api2pdf.Chrome.url_to_pdf/2)
wkhtml
Wkhtml
- [x] html_to_pdf (
Api2pdf.Wkhtml.html_to_pdf/2) - [x] url_to_pdf (
Api2pdf.Wkhtml.url_to_pdf/2)
libre-office
Libre Office
- [x] any_to_pdf (
Api2pdf.LibreOffice.any_to_pdf/2) - [x] any_to_image (
Api2pdf.LibreOffice.any_to_image/2) - [x] pdf_to_html (
Api2pdf.LibreOffice.pdf_to_html/2) - [x] html_to_docx (
Api2pdf.LibreOffice.html_to_docx/2) - [x] html_to_xlsx (
Api2pdf.LibreOffice.html_to_xlsx/2)
pdfsharp
PdfSharp
- [ ] merge_pdfs
- [ ] bookmark_pdf
- [ ] password_pdf
- [ ] extract_pdf
- [ ] compress_pdf
zxing-bar-codes-generator
ZXING (Bar codes generator)
- [ ] generate_barcode
utility-commands
Utility Commands
- [x] check_balance (
Api2pdf.check_balance/1) - [ ] delete_file
- [ ] zip_files
- [ ] api_status
installation
Installation
Add api2pdf to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:
def deps do
[
{:api2pdf, "~> 0.1.1"}
]
end
api-key
API Key
Api2pdf service requires API key to be able to access their endpoints which you can get by creating an account on their membership portal site.
Once you have API key, you can pass it to this Api2pdf client in two ways.
via-application-config
Via application config
# file: config.exs
config :api2pdf,
api_key: "YOUR-API-KEY"
via-options
Via options
All functions accept optional Keyword list where you can pass the api_key and some other configuration.
Api2pdf.Chrome.url_to_pdf("https://example.com", api_key: "YOUR-API-KEY")
engines
Engines
Api2pdf service uses multiple engines to generate PDF and doing document conversions that you can choose from. Which one to use? It's up to your preference.
You can switch between those engines by using separate modules, they are: