bcdevices/docker-html-to-pdf repository overview

⁠Convert html-to-pdf via dockerized chrome headless

Because currently the --print-to-pdf CLI switch does not allow disabling of header/footer the approach uses a nodejs script which connects to chrome via remote interface. It also executes 5s of javascript (virtual time) to ensure that the page is fully rendered.

⁠How to run it?

You need to mount a container workdir locally to be able to get the output file.

The workdir is /tmp/html-to-pdf, thus running:

docker run -v `pwd`:/tmp/html-to-pdf pink33n/html-to-pdf --url http://google.com --pdf out.pdf

Will produce out.pdf file in your current directory.

For all of the commandline arguments please check out the documentation for the library doing the actual heavy lifting: chrome-headless-render⁠.

⁠Privileged mode

The chrome sandbox is disabled automatically via --chrome-option=--no-sandbox switch so you don't have to use the --privileged mode when running the container anymore.

⁠Version tags

The container versioning scheme is ${MAJOR_CHROME_VERSION}.${CONTAINER_VERSION}

⁠Ansible

ansible-html-to-pdf⁠