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PDF generation with Gotenberg

November 4, 2023

Gotenberg is a Docker-based stateless API for PDF generation from HTML and Markdown files.

To get started, configure Docker compose and run the docker-compose up command.

version: '3.8'
services:
gotenberg:
image: gotenberg/gotenberg:7
ports:
- 3000:3000

API is available on http://localhost:3000 address.

Run the following commands to generate PDFs

  • from the given URL

    curl \
    --request POST 'http://localhost:3000/forms/chromium/convert/url' \
    --form 'url="https://sparksuite.github.io/simple-html-invoice-template/"' \
    --form 'pdfFormat="PDF/A-1a"' \
    -o curl-url-response.pdf
  • from the given HTML file

    curl \
    --request POST 'http://localhost:3000/forms/chromium/convert/html' \
    --form 'files=@"./index.html"' \
    --form 'pdfFormat="PDF/A-1a"' \
    -o curl-html-response.pdf

PDF/A-1a format is used for the long-term preservation of electronic documents, ensuring that documents can be accessed and read even as technology changes.

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