hc-pdf-server

convert HTML to PDF server by Headless Chrome.

GET URL or POST HTML returns PDF binary.

This is new version of hcep-pdf-server with buit-in TypeScript supoort and sufficient testing, excellent new features.

Of course, Docker is also supported!

New features compared to hcep-pdf-server

Writing in TypeScript
Use Fasity instead of Express for native TypeScript support and fast response
You can Change User Agent and Accept Language etc with environment variables
Bearer token authorization Support

Getting Started

Clone

git clone this repository.

Run

You can try it in 2 ways: 1.Docker or 2.Local

1. Docker

Requirement

You need install docker.

https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/

Build without installing fonts

docker build -t hc-pdf-server:latest .

Install Fonts (optionary)

If you wanto to convert pages in Japanese, Chinese or languages other than English with Docker.

You will need to install each font files.

Also, you can use WEB fonts, but since it takes a long time for requesting and downloading them, we recommend that install the font files in the server.

1. From font file

Add your font files (ex. *.otf) to fonts/ dir.

cp AnyFonts.ttf ./fonts/

And build image.

docker build -t hc-pdf-server:latest .

2. From package

You can use build-arg ADDITONAL_FONTS as package names.

See below available font package names.

https://packages.debian.org/stable/fonts/

docker build \
  --build-arg ADDITONAL_FONTS=fonts-ipafont \
  -t hc-pdf-server:latest .

# multiple (split by space)
docker build \
  --build-arg ADDITONAL_FONTS="fonts-ipafont fonts-ipaexfont-gothic" \
  -t hc-pdf-server:latest .

Run docker

docker run -it -p 8080:8080 hc-pdf-server:latest

2. Local (for development use)

Requirement

You need to install Node.js and yarn.

Node.js
yarn

install packages

yarn install

start dev server

yarn dev

lint and fix

yarn lint

compile ts files

yarn build

launch server

yarn start

Usage

GET request '/' with URL parameter

curl "http://localhost:8080?url=http://example.com" -o hcpdf-get.pdf

hcpdf-get.pdf

POST request '/' with HTML parameter

html parameter should be urlencoded beforehand, as the inclusion of certain characters (e.g. "&") can cause problems.

curl -sS http://localhost:8080 -v \
  --data-urlencode html="<html><p>hcpdf <strong>ok</strong></p></html>"\
  -o hcpdf-post.pdf

hcpdf-post.pdf

Customize PDF options by preset name

The Puppeteer's PDF options are flexible and complex.

I thought about taking them directly as GET or POST parameters, but it's not simple.

So I make with the preset method.

Just pass the preset name as request parameter pdf_option that you have prepared in PDFOptionsPreset.

The default presets are below.

src/pdf-options/presets/default.ts

You can extend it or create another file and switch it by environment variables.

# make file
cp src/pdf-options/presets/my-preset.sample.ts src/pdf-options/presets/my-preset.ts

# edit
vim src/pdf-options/presets/my-preset.ts

# build image
docker build -t hc-pdf-server:latest .

# and set env example with dorcker run
docker run -it -p 8080:8080 \
  -e HCPDF_PRESET_PDF_OPTIONS_FILE_PATH='./presets/my-preset' \
  -e HCPDF_DEFAULT_PRESET_PDF_OPTIONS_NAME='MYA4' \
  hc-pdf-server:latest

# request with pdf_option
curl "http://localhost:8080?url=http://example.com&pdf_option=MYA4" -o hcpdf-get-MYA4.pdf

The default is the minimum (e.g. A4, A3).

If you have something you think should be included, I'd be happy to receive a pull request.

You can check what options are currently available by looking at the following path after the server starts

$ curl http://localhost:8080/pdf_options
{"A4":{"format":"A4","margin":{"top":"10mm","bottom":"10mm","left":"10mm","right":"10mm"},"printBackground":true},"A3":{"format":"A3","margin":{"top":"10mm","bottom":"10mm","left":"10mm","right":"10mm"},"printBackground":true},"A4L":{"format":"A4","landscape":true,"margin":{"top":"10mm","bottom":"10mm","left":"10mm","right":"10mm"},"printBackground":true},"A3L":{"format":"A3","landscape":true,"margin":{"top":"10mm","bottom":"10mm","left":"10mm","right":"10mm"},"printBackground":true}}

Bearer Authorization

You can enable bearer auth by setting your secret key to HCPDF_BEARER_AUTH_SECRET_KEY (default empty, disabled) .

This application can be exploited if it is published on a global network, as it allows you to manipulate Chrome.

So it is recommended that you enable this option to control access to it when you place it on a global network.

docker run -it -p 8080:8080 \
  -e HCPDF_BEARER_AUTH_SECRET_KEY='yourSecretKey' \
  hc-pdf-server:latest

curl "http://localhost:8080/?url=http://example.com" \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer yourSecretKey' \
  -o hcpdf-auth-get.pdf

This feature uses the following the plugin.

Details are below.

https://github.com/fastify/fastify-bearer-auth

Support for concurrent access

In Puppeteer, if you make another request to Page during the PDF conversion process, it will result in an error.

At present, it seems not to be able to judge whether Page is being processed or not.

Therefore, in hc-pdf-server, the error is avoided by preparing two or more Page at the time of server starting, and using them in order.

The number of starting pages can be changed by env HCPDF_PAGES_NUM (default: 3).

If you increase the number of pages, the memory required will also increase, so adjust it according to your machine resource.

Configuring with environment variables

All have a prefix of 'HCPDF_'

PDF Options presets

Multiple PDF Options can be prepared in advance and used upon request. see detail about PDF options

HCPDF_PRESET_PDF_OPTIONS_FILE_PATH

If the default is not sufficient, please specify your own. Specify relative path from plugins/pdf-options.ts

default: '../pdf-options/presets/default'

HCPDF_DEFAULT_PRESET_PDF_OPTIONS_NAME

defalt key name.

default: 'DEFAULT'

You can change the default items for simple changes such as size and margins

HCPDF_DEFAULT_PDF_OPTION_FORMAT

Corresponds to format

Letter: 8.5in x 11in
Legal: 8.5in x 14in
Tabloid: 11in x 17in
Ledger: 17in x 11in
A0: 33.1in x 46.8in
A1: 23.4in x 33.1in
A2: 16.54in x 23.4in
A3: 11.7in x 16.54in
A4: 8.27in x 11.7in
A5: 5.83in x 8.27in
A6: 4.13in x 5.83in

HCPDF_DEFAULT_PDF_OPTION_MARGIN

Corresponds to all margins

HCPDF_DEFAULT_PDF_OPTION_PRINT_BACKGROUND

Corresponds printBackground

HCPDF_DEFAULT_PDF_OPTION_LANDSCAPE

Corresponds to landscape

Page settings

HCPDF_PAGES_NUM

Allows you to specify the number of pages to be launched when the server starts.

Change the number according to the number of requests and the response speed and server resources.

default: 3

HCPDF_USER_AGENT

You can change the User agent string.

default: puppeteer's user agent

HCPDF_PAGE_TIMEOUT_MILLISECONDS

Timeout values used in various Page operations. see detail Page.setDefaultTimeout()

default: 10000

HCPDF_EMULATE_MEDIA_TYPE_SCREEN_ENABLED

if 'true', CSS media type set to screen

default: false (print)

HCPDF_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE

Accept-Language can be given at the time of request.

default: ''

Server settings

HCPDF_SERVER_ADDRESS

default: '127.0.0.1'

HCPDF_SERVER_PORT

default: 8080

HCPDF_FASTIFY_BODY_LIMIT

The maximum request size that the server will accept.

default: 10485760 (10MiB)

HCPDF_BEARER_AUTH_SECRET_KEY

see Bearer Authorization

default: '' (disabled)

Viewport

see page.setViewport

HCPDF_VIEWPORT_WIDTH

default: 800

HCPDF_VIEWPORT_HEIGHT

default: 600

HCPDF_DEVICE_SCALE_FACTOR

default: 1

HCPDF_VIEWPORT_IS_MOBILE

default: false

HCPDF_VIEWPORT_HAS_TOUCH

default: false

HCPDF_VIEWPORT_IS_LANDSCAPE

default: false

Others

Other settings can be changed by environment variables.

See the following file for details.

src/config.ts

Test

Local

yarn test

Result example

Docker

# before you need build image
docker build -t hc-pdf-server:latest .

docker run hc-pdf-server:latest yarn test

License

Licensed under Apache License

Contributing

Pull requests, Issues, GitHub Sponsors are welcome.

Contributors ✨

Thanks!

salos1982

Author

uyamazak

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Getting Started

Clone

Run

1. Docker

Requirement

Build without installing fonts

Install Fonts (optionary)

1. From font file

2. From package

Run docker

2. Local (for development use)

Requirement

Usage

GET request '/' with URL parameter

POST request '/' with HTML parameter

Customize PDF options by preset name

Bearer Authorization

Support for concurrent access

Configuring with environment variables

PDF Options presets

HCPDF_PRESET_PDF_OPTIONS_FILE_PATH

HCPDF_DEFAULT_PRESET_PDF_OPTIONS_NAME

HCPDF_DEFAULT_PDF_OPTION_FORMAT

HCPDF_DEFAULT_PDF_OPTION_MARGIN

HCPDF_DEFAULT_PDF_OPTION_PRINT_BACKGROUND

HCPDF_DEFAULT_PDF_OPTION_LANDSCAPE

Page settings

HCPDF_PAGES_NUM

HCPDF_USER_AGENT

HCPDF_PAGE_TIMEOUT_MILLISECONDS

HCPDF_EMULATE_MEDIA_TYPE_SCREEN_ENABLED

HCPDF_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE

Server settings

HCPDF_SERVER_ADDRESS

HCPDF_SERVER_PORT

HCPDF_FASTIFY_BODY_LIMIT

HCPDF_BEARER_AUTH_SECRET_KEY

Viewport

HCPDF_VIEWPORT_WIDTH

HCPDF_VIEWPORT_HEIGHT

HCPDF_DEVICE_SCALE_FACTOR

HCPDF_VIEWPORT_IS_MOBILE

HCPDF_VIEWPORT_HAS_TOUCH

HCPDF_VIEWPORT_IS_LANDSCAPE

Others

Test

Local

Result example

Docker

License

Contributing

Contributors ✨

Author