PuppeteerPdf

PuppeteerPdf is using Puppeteer library organized by Google. It's a lightest gem to generate PDF's using URL. PuppeteerPdf is using Headless to open webpage and then simply convert it into PDF.

Before installing puppeteer_pdf gem system must have puppeteer library installed, it can be installed by

- npm install 8
- npm i puppeteer  # or "yarn add puppeteer"

or visit https://developers.google.com/web/tools/puppeteer/

Once all prerequisites are installed add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'puppeteer_pdf'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install puppeteer_pdf

require 'puppeteer_pdf'
url = 'https://developers.google.com/web/tools/puppeteer'
output_path = '/system_path/test.pdf'
PuppeteerPdf.generate_pdf(url, output_path) # '/system_path/test.pdf'

opts = {
    height: 600,
    width: 1225,
    layout: 'Landscape',
    format: 'A4',
    timeout: 10000,
    header_text: 'Company Name',
    footer_text: 'Any Text Information',
    print_background: true,
    include_page_numbers: true,
    }
PuppeteerPdf.generate_pdf(url, output_path, opts)

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/muneeb0011/puppeteer_pdf. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the PuppeteerPdf project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.