PDF from URL (URL to PDF)

Description: Create PDF from URL. POST request.

Status Errors

Code	Description
`200`	The request has succeeded
`400`	bad input parameters
`401`	unauthorized
`403`	not enough credits
`405`	Timeout error. To process large documents or files please use asynchronous mode ( set `async` parameter to true) and then check the status using `/job/check` endpoint. If a file contains many pages then specify a page range using pages parameter. The number of pages of the document can be obtained using the endpoint `/pdf/info`

Available Methods

[POST] /pdf/convert/from/url

[POST] /pdf/convert/from/url

Generate PDF from URL or link to HTML page. You can set the following parameters:

Attributes
url required URL to the source file. Supports links from Google Drive, Dropbox, and PDF.co built-in files storage. To upload files via API, Check out the Files Upload section. Note: If you experience intermittent `Too Many Requests` or `Access Denied` errors, please try to add `cache:` to enable built-in URL caching. (e.g `cache:https://example.com/file1.pdf`) For data security, you have the option to encrypt output files and decrypt input files. Learn more about user-controlled data encryption.
async optional Set `async` to `true` for long processes to run in the background, API will then return a `jobId` which you can use with `/job/check` endpoint to check the status of the process and retrieve the output while you can proceed with other tasks without waiting for this process to finish.
name optional File name for the generated output, The input must be in string format.
expiration optional Set the expiration time for the output link in minutes (`default is 60` i.e 60 minutes or 1 hour), After this specified duration, any generated output file(s) will be automatically deleted from PDF.co temporary files storage. The maximum duration for link expiration varies based on your current subscription plan. Learn more To store permanent input files (e.g. re-usable images, pdf templates, documents), Consider using PDF.co built-in Files Storage.
margins optional Set to CSS style margins like `10px`, `5mm`, `5in` for all sides or `5px 5px 5px 5px` (the order of margins is `top`, `right`, `bottom`, `left`).
paperSize optional `Letter` is set by default. Can be `Letter`, `Legal`, `Tabloid`, `Ledger`, `A0`, `A1`, `A2`, `A3`, `A4`, `A5`, `A6` or a custom size. Custom size can be set in `px` (pixels), `mm` or `in` (inches) with width and height separated by space like this: `200 300`, `200px 300px`, `200mm 300mm`, `20cm 30cm` or `6in 8in`.
orientation optional Set to `Portrait` or `Landscape`. `Portrait` by default.
printBackground optional `true` by default. Set to `false` to disable printing of background.
mediaType optional Uses `print` by default. Set to `screen` to convert HTML as it appears in a browser or `print` to convert as it appears for printing or `none` to set `none` as mediaType for CSS styles.
DoNotWaitFullLoad optional `false` by default. Set to `true` to skip waiting for full load (like full video load etc that may affect the total conversion time).
profiles optional Use this parameter to set additional configurations for fine-tuning and extra options, The input must be in string format. Explore PDF.co knowledgebase for profile examples.
header optional Set to HTML for the header to be applied on every page at the header.
footer optional Set to HTML for the footer to be applied on every page at the bottom.

The header and footer params should contain valid HTML markup with the following classes used to inject printing values into them:

date: formatted print date title: document title url: document location pageNumber: current page number totalPages: total pages in the document

For example, the following markup will generate Page N of NN page numbering:

<span style='font-size:10px'>Page <span class='pageNumber'></span> of <span class='totalPages'></span>.</span>

Sample URL To PDF with advanced header and footer. Note that the top and bottom page margins are important because page content may overlap the footer or header.

{
 "url": "https://wikipedia.org",
  "async": false,
  
  "name": "result.pdf",
  "margins": "40px 5px 40px 5px",
  "paperSize": "Letter",
  "orientation": "Portrait",
  "printBackground": true,
  "header": "<div style='width:100%'><span style='font-size:10px;margin-left:20px;width:50%;float:left'>LEFT SUBHEADER</span><span style='font-size:8px;width:30%;float:right'>RIGHT SUBHEADER</span></div>",
  "footer": "<div style='width:100%;text-align:right'><span style='font-size:10px;margin-right:20px'>Page <span class='pageNumber'></span> of <span class='totalPages'></span>.</span></div>"
}

Method: POST
URL: /v1/pdf/convert/from/url

Query parameters

No query parameters accepted.

Body payload

{
    "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us",
    "margins": "5mm",
    "paperSize": "Letter",
    "orientation": "Portrait",
    "printBackground": true,
    "header": "",
    "footer": "",
    "mediaType": "print",
    "async": false,
    "profiles": "{ \"CustomScript\": \";; // put some custom js script here \"}"
}

Example responses

/pdf/convert/from/url (with header and footer)

Code Snippet

CURL

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/url' \
--header 'x-api-key: ' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "url": "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us",
    "margins": "5mm",
    "paperSize": "Letter",
    "orientation": "Portrait",
    "printBackground": true,
    "header": "",
    "footer": "",
    "mediaType": "print",
    "async": false,
    "profiles": "{ \"CustomScript\": \";; // put some custom js script here \"}"
}'