Convert Web Page To PDF From Link Asynchronously - PHP
PDF from URL (URL to PDF) sample in PHP demonstrating ‘Convert Web Page To PDF From Link Asynchronously’
web-page-to-pdf-async.php
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Cloud API asynchronous "Web Page to PDF" job example (allows to avoid timeout errors).</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
// Cloud API asynchronous "Web Page to PDF" job example.
// Allows to avoid timeout errors when processing huge or scanned PDF documents.
// The authentication key (API Key).
// Get your own by registering at https://app.pdf.co
$apiKey = "***********************************";
// URL of web page to convert to PDF document.
$sourceUrl = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page";
// Prepare URL for `Web Page to PDF` API call
$url = "https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/url";
// Prepare requests params
$parameters = array();
$parameters["name"] = "result.pdf";
$parameters["url"] = $sourceUrl;
$parameters["async"] = true; // (!) Make asynchronous job
// Create Json payload
$data = json_encode($parameters);
// Create request
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("x-api-key: " . $apiKey, "Content-type: application/json"));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
// Execute request
$result = curl_exec($curl);
if (curl_errno($curl) == 0)
{
$status_code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ($status_code == 200)
{
$json = json_decode($result, true);
if (!isset($json["error"]) || $json["error"] == false)
{
// URL of generated PDF file that will available after the job completion
$resultFileUrl = $json["url"];
// Asynchronous job ID
$jobId = $json["jobId"];
// Check the job status in a loop
do
{
$status = CheckJobStatus($jobId, $apiKey); // Possible statuses: "working", "failed", "aborted", "success".
// Display timestamp and status (for demo purposes)
echo "<p>" . date(DATE_RFC2822) . ": " . $status . "</p>";
if ($status == "success")
{
// Display link to the file with conversion results
echo "<div><h2>Conversion Result:</h2><a href='" . $resultFileUrl . "' target='_blank'>" . $resultFileUrl . "</a></div>";
break;
}
else if ($status == "working")
{
// Pause for a few seconds
sleep(3);
}
else
{
echo $status . "<br/>";
break;
}
}
while (true);
}
else
{
// Display service reported error
echo "<p>Error: " . $json["message"] . "</p>";
}
}
else
{
// Display request error
echo "<p>Status code: " . $status_code . "</p>";
echo "<p>" . $result . "</p>";
}
}
else
{
// Display CURL error
echo "Error: " . curl_error($curl);
}
// Cleanup
curl_close($curl);
function CheckJobStatus($jobId, $apiKey)
{
$status = null;
// Create URL
$url = "https://api.pdf.co/v1/job/check";
// Prepare requests params
$parameters = array();
$parameters["jobid"] = $jobId;
// Create Json payload
$data = json_encode($parameters);
// Create request
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("x-api-key: " . $apiKey, "Content-type: application/json"));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
// Execute request
$result = curl_exec($curl);
if (curl_errno($curl) == 0)
{
$status_code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ($status_code == 200)
{
$json = json_decode($result, true);
if (!isset($json["error"]) || $json["error"] == false)
{
$status = $json["status"];
}
else
{
// Display service reported error
echo "<p>Error: " . $json["message"] . "</p>";
}
}
else
{
// Display request error
echo "<p>Status code: " . $status_code . "</p>";
echo "<p>" . $result . "</p>";
}
}
else
{
// Display CURL error
echo "Error: " . curl_error($curl);
}
// Cleanup
curl_close($curl);
return $status;
}
?>
</body>
</html>
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