PDF Merge

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Merge PDF from two or more PDF files into a new one.

Available Methods

[POST] /pdf/merge
[POST] /pdf/merge2 (supports zip, doc, rtf, xls, png, jpg etc)

[POST] /pdf/merge

url required. Comma separated urls to the source PDF files in the same order that you want them to be merged. Supports links from Google Drive, Dropbox and from built-in PDF.co files storage. For uploading files via API please check Files Upload section. If you are randomly getting Too Many Requests or Access Denied error for your input url, please try to add cache: to enable built-in url caching. You can also encrypt data for output files and decrypt data input files with user-controlled data encryption (uses strong AES encryption with your own keys). Click here to learn more. Need to merge non-PDF files too? Use /pdf/merge2 endpoint instead.
async optional. Runs processing asynchronously. Returns JobId that you may use with /job/check to check state of the background job (possible states: working, failed, aborted and success). Must be one of: true, false.
name optional. name of the output file.
expiration (optional). Output link expiration in minutes. Default is 60 (i.e. 60 minutes or 1 hour). After this delay generated output file(s) (if any) will be auto-removed from PDF.co temporary files storage. Max allowed expiration period depends on your current subscription plan. To store permanent input files (e.g. re-usable images, pdf, documents), please use PDF.co built-in Files Storage instead.
profiles optional. Must be a String. Use this parameter to set additional configuration for fine tuning and extra options. Explore PDF.co knowledgebase for profile examples.
Method: POST
URL: /v1/pdf/merge

Query parameters

No query parameters accepted.

Body payload

{
    "url": "https://bytescout-com.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-merge/sample1.pdf,https://bytescout-com.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-merge/sample2.pdf",
    "async": false
}

Example responses

/pdf/merge

{
    "url": "https://pdf-temp-files.s3.amazonaws.com/3ec287356c0b4e02b5231354f94086f2/result.pdf",
    "error": false,
    "status": 200,
    "name": "result.pdf",
    "remainingCredits": 98465
}

Code Snippet

CURL

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/merge' \
--header 'x-api-key: ' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "url": "https://bytescout-com.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-merge/sample1.pdf,https://bytescout-com.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-merge/sample2.pdf",
    "async": false
}'

[POST] /pdf/merge2 (supports zip, doc, rtf, xls, png, jpg etc)

This endpoint is similar to /pdf/merge but it also supports zip, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, rtf, txt, png, jpg files as source.

We recommended to use this endpoint in "async": true mode because it may need to convert source documents to pdf.

This endpoint also consumes more credits because of the internal conversions.

url required. Comma separated urls to the source files (pdf, zip, documents, txt, rtf, xls, xslx, png, jpg) in the same order that you want them to be merged. Supports links from Google Drive, Dropbox and from built-in PDF.co files storage. For uploading files via API please check Files Upload section. If you are randomly getting Too Many Requests or Access Denied error for your input url, please try to add cache: to enable built-in url caching. You can also encrypt data for output files and decrypt data input files with user-controlled data encryption (uses strong AES encryption with your own keys). Click here to learn more.
httpusername (optional) - http auth user name if required to access source url.
httppassword (optional) - http auth password if required to access source url.
async optional. Runs processing asynchronously. Returns JobId that you may use with /job/check to check state of the background job (possible states: working, failed, aborted and success). Must be one of: true, false.
name optional. name of the output file.
expiration (optional). Output link expiration in minutes. Default is 60 (i.e. 60 minutes or 1 hour). After this delay generated output file(s) (if any) will be auto-removed from PDF.co temporary files storage. Max allowed expiration period depends on your current subscription plan. To store permanent input files (e.g. re-usable images, pdf, documents), please use PDF.co built-in Files Storage instead.
profiles optional. Must be a String. Use this parameter to set additional configuration for fine tuning and extra options. Explore PDF.co knowledgebase for profile examples.
Method: POST
URL: /v1/pdf/merge2