Convert HTML to PDF files

PDF Rocket is a fast, easy to use web service to convert an HTML webpage into an image or PDF file

Now used commercially by 10,500+ companies! We've grown too big to be a completely free service - read the backstory.


Code examples available for asp.net, jquery/javascript, php, java, android and others


Conversions are done on multiple server clusters spread across different datacenters

Why HTML 2 PDF Rocket

How to convert an html string or save a url or webpage to PDF

    • ASP.NET / C#

    • string apiKey = "ABCD-1234";
string value = "http://www.google.com"; // a url starting with http or an HTML string.  See php example #5 if you are using long strings  
using (var client = new WebClient())
{
                                            client.QueryString.Add("apikey", apiKey);
                                            client.QueryString.Add("value", value);
                                            client.DownloadFile("https://api.html2pdfrocket.com/pdf/", @"c:\temp\mypdf.pdf");
}

      string apiKey = "ABCD-1234";
string value = "http://www.google.com"; // a url starting with http or an HTML string
using (var client = new WebClient())
{
    NameValueCollection options = new NameValueCollection();
    options.Add("apikey", apiKey);
    options.Add("value", value);
    ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;  //needed for older .net versions
                                byte[] result = client.UploadValues("https://api.html2pdfrocket.com/pdf", options);
    System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes(Server.MapPath(Path.Combine("~/", @"c:\temp\mypdf.pdf")), result);
}

    • See more ASP.NET / C# examples including MVC..


    • HTML

    • <a href="https://api.html2pdfrocket.com/pdf?value=http://www.google.com&apikey=ABCD-1234">Download PDF</a>

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    • PHP

    • $apikey = 'ABCD-1234';
$value = 'http://www.google.com'; // a url starting with http or an HTML string.  see example #5 if you have a long HTML string
$result = file_get_contents("https://api.html2pdfrocket.com/pdf?apikey=" . urlencode($apikey) . "&value=" . urlencode($value));
file_put_contents('mypdf.pdf',$result);

    • See more PHP examples including streaming to the browser..

    • Java

    • We've just added a Java example! All the optional parameters below can be used. Please check it out here

    • Android

    • We've just added an Android example! All the optional parameters below can be used. Please check it out here

    • RUBY

    • require 'net/http'
apikey = 'ABCD-1234'
value = 'http://www.google.com'   # a url starting with http or an HTML string
uri = URI("https://api.html2pdfrocket.com/pdf?apikey=#{apikey}&value=#{value}")
Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port) do |http|
     request = Net::HTTP::Get.new uri.request_uri
     http.request request do |response|
                                open 'mypdf.pdf', 'w' do |io|
           response.read_body do |chunk|
           io.write chunk
                                end
                                end
                                end
end

    • Optional PDF Parameters (See here for image thumbnail parameters)

    • MarginLeft
       Value of left margin - default is 0
    • MarginRight
       Value of right margin - default is 0
    • MarginTop
       Value of top margin - default is 0
    • MarginBottom
       Value of bottom margin - default is 0
    • UseGrayscale
       true to generate PDF in grayscale, false or leave blank for full colour
    • UseLandscape
       true to rotate page to landscape, false or leave blank for portrait
    • EnableForms
       true to turn html form fields into pdf form fields
    • LowQuality
       true to reduce the quality, which may lower your network usage if quality is still satisfactory
    • ImageQuality
       override the default image quality percentage (94) and use your own
    • DisableShrinking
       true to disable the intelligent shrinking process we use make the pixel/dpi ratio constant
    • DisableJavascript
       true to disable running JS on page, otherwise javascript runs
    • JavascriptDelay
       Milliseconds to wait for JS to finish executing before converting the page.  Useful for ajax calls.
    • UsePrintStylesheet
       true to use the print media stylesheet, false or leave blank to use normal stylesheet
    • FooterSpacing
       Spacing between the header and the content in mm - default is 0
    • HeaderSpacing
       Spacing between the footer and the content in mm - default is 0
    • PageSize
       Default size is A4 but you can use Letter, A0, A2, A3, A5, Legal, etc.
    • PageWidth
       Page width - if you use this, you must also use PageWidth
    • PageHeight
       Page height - if you use this, you must also use PageHeight
    • ViewPort
       e.g. 800x600 - Set if you have custom scrollbars or css attribute overflow to emulate window size
    • Dpi
       Explicitly set the DPI, which is 300 by default.  Also see Zoom settings
    • Zoom
       Default zoom is 1.00  You can use any floating point number, e.g. 0.5, 0.75, 1.10, 2.55, 3...
    • OutputFormat
       Must be either "pdf", "jpg", "png", "bmp" or "svg" if not supplied the default is PDF
    • FileName
       Optionally the name you want the file to be called when downloading or $unique$ for guid
    • Username
       For URL conversions, creates a secure basic authentication connection to your server
    • Password
       For URL conversions, creates a secure basic authentication connection to your server
    • Cookie
       Supply in format: NAME|||VALUE|||NAME|||VALUE (that's 2 cookies).  Often used for authentication.

    • Headers and footers, including automatic page numbering can be done by either passing in a url to HeaderUrl/HeaderHtml or FooterUrl/FooterHtml, or passing in a small snippet of plain text to HeaderLeft, HeaderRight, FooterLeft or FooterRight. Note that if you want to use a header or footer, you must also use a margin parameter like MarginTop or MarginBottom to ensure there is space for the header or footer. Your Html should also start with <!DOCTYPE html> and include the <html> and <body> tags

    • HeaderHtml
       To use an html header on each page - a string starting with <!DOCTYPE html>
    • FooterHtml
       To use an html footer on each page - a string starting with <!DOCTYPE html>
    • HeaderUrl
       To use an html header on each page - a url starting with http containing the html
    • FooterUrl
       To use an html footer on each page - a url starting with http containing the html
    • HeaderLeft
       Top left header text (can use replacement tags below)
    • HeaderRight
       Top right header text (can use replacement tags below)
    • FooterLeft
       Bottom left footer (can use replacement tags below)
    • FooterRight
       Bottom right footer (can use replacement tags below)
    • FooterFontName
       Footer font names - Arial by default
    • HeaderFontName 
       Header font names - Arial by default
    • FooterFontSize
       The font sizes - 12 by default.  Use the the plain value (do not use px or pt)
    • HeaderFontSize
       The font sizes - 12 by default.  Use the the plain value (do not use px or pt)

    • The replacement tags in the following table can be used to set the page numbering. For example, using FooterRight with a value of 'Page [page] of [toPage]', and remembering to also use a margin per above, e.g. MarginBottom with a value of 20

    • [page]
       Tag replaced with number of the pages currently being printed
    • [frompage]
       Tag replaced with the number of the first page to be printedr
    • [topage]
       Tag replaced with the number of the last page to be printed
    • [section]
       Tag replaced with the name of the current section

    • Let us know if you need extra parameters or other API features

    • Batch/Asynchronous Process

    • For PDF conversion taking more than 30 seconds or input/output files more than 6 Mb, you need to use the batch/asynchronous parameters. Examples: C#, PHP 

    • Batch
      true to send it through batch process. API will return a PdfToken that you could use for your next api call.
    • PdfToken
      Token to retrieve the pdf file that was passed in batch process. You will get a PdfLink as a return.
    • Webhook
      Instead of polling if the pdf file is already ready, you can send a webhook url where we could post once the file is ready.
    • PdfDownloadExpirySeconds
      Number of seconds before the PdfLink expires. Default and minimum is 300 seconds, max is 900 seconds.

    • Font Advice

    • /* In css */

@font-face {
                                font-family: 'Jolly Lodger';
                                src: url(fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Jolly+Lodger);
}

p {
                                font-family: 'Jolly Lodger';
}

/* In html */

<link href="fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Jolly+Lodger" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style type="text/css">
                                p {
                                font-family: 'Jolly Lodger';
    }
</style>
Try it yourself

Enter your url beginning with http - or a html string - to convert to a PDF or image file.

Your page doesn't have to be W3C compliant, but please be certain that the page your trying isn't missing links to images or files as we tend to reject pages like that by default :)


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Pricing

Each plan receives credits each month. Each credit allows one conversion. Large PDF files use 1 credit per 500kb of network traffic.


    • Free

    • $0 / Month

      • 200 credits
      • 5 Mb per PDF file
    • Get Free Key

    • Bootstrapped

    • $5 / Month

      • 500 credits
      • 50 Mb per PDF file
    • Purchase

    • Startup

    • $10 / Month

      • 1,000 credits
      • 50 Mb per PDF file
    • Purchase

    • Accelerator

    • $20 / Month

      • 3,000 credits
      • 50 Mb per PDF file
    • Purchase

    • Crowdfunded

    • $40 / Month

      • 10,000 credits
      • 50 Mb per PDF file
    • Purchase

    • Minimum Viable Product

    • $150 / Month

      • 40,000 credits
      • 50 Mb per PDF file
    • Purchase

    • Growth Hacked

    • $350 / Month

      • 100,000 credits
      • 50 Mb per PDF file
    • Purchase

    • Venture Capital

    • $500 / Month

      • 200,000 credits
      • 50 Mb per PDF file
    • Purchase

    • Exit Strategy

    • $2,000 / Month

      • 1,000,000 credits
      • 100 Mb per PDF file
    • Purchase

    • Unicorn

    • $20,000 / Month

      • 10,000,000 credits
      • 100 Mb per PDF file
    • Purchase

Numbers don't fit into your budget or plan? drop us a line with what you do need - we have customers affordably doing 1.6 million PDF's per month

Top Four Frequently Asked Questions
What about security (and also testing on localhost) - do I have to make my webpage publicly available?
No - you can send the html (instead of a url) - there is no need to put the page you want to convert publicly on the web. This is also slighly faster as we don't have to download the webpage from the internet.
If I do use the URL option, what security options like SSL are there?
You can use basic authentication and pass in a username and password. Our API supports SSL and also reading from https pages. Alternatively some customers use a simple token system, e.g. by passing a secret parameter on the url that noone else will know, e.g. www.myurl.com/invoice?secret=abc123. The token could be simple - the same each time, or it could be time based and expire after a minute or so.
What about data privacy?
We take privacy very seriously and we do not store either the webpage content you sent to us or outputted PDF. Not even in audit trails or exception logs. HTML is processed and sent back to you, and to be perfectly honest, storing all that html, css, images etc or worse, the resulting PDFs would quickly result in terrabytes of useless data that would cost us a lot of money so doesn't make any sense - we also do not have time to sift though tens of thousands of PDF's to find one with something interesting.. Please see our privacy policy for more details
Can I run this on my own private server or cluster?
Yes - we have sent the API source code to several companies, and we can also spin up a dedicated server, or server cluster just for you drop us a line.

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