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Dan Bernier edited this page Nov 6, 2015
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PDFKit is a ruby gem that allows you to generate PDFs using only HTML/CSS. It requires wkhtmltopdf.
On this page are instructions for getting started with PDFKit. If you run into trouble, you can find information in the README and on the troubleshooting page.
gem install pdfkit
# PDFKit.new takes the HTML and any options for wkhtmltopdf
# run `wkhtmltopdf --extended-help` for a full list of options
kit = PDFKit.new(html, :page_size => 'Letter')
kit.stylesheets << '/path/to/css/file'
# Get an inline PDF
pdf = kit.to_pdf
# Save the PDF to a file
file = kit.to_file('/path/to/save/pdf')
# PDFKit.new can optionally accept a URL or a File.
# Stylesheets can not be added when source is provided as a URL of File.
kit = PDFKit.new('http://google.com')
kit = PDFKit.new(File.new('/path/to/html'))
# Add any kind of option through meta tags
PDFKit.new('<html><head><meta name="pdfkit-page_size" content="Letter"')If you want to pass a cookie to cookie to pdfkit to scrape a website, you can pass it in a hash:
kit = PDFKit.new(url, cookie: {cookie_name, cookie_value})