Gotenberg is a Docker-based stateless API for PDF generation from HTML and Markdown files.
To get started, configure Docker compose and run the docker-compose up command.
version: '3.8'
services:
gotenberg:
image: gotenberg/gotenberg:7
ports:
- 3000:3000
API is available on http://localhost:3000 address.
Run the following commands to generate PDFs
- from the given URL
curl
--request POST 'http://localhost:3000/forms/chromium/convert/url'
--form 'url="https://sparksuite.github.io/simple-html-invoice-template/"'
--form 'pdfFormat="PDF/A-1a"'
-o curl-url-response.pdf
- from the given HTML file
curl
--request POST 'http://localhost:3000/forms/chromium/convert/html'
--form 'files=@"./index.html"'
--form 'pdfFormat="PDF/A-1a"'
-o curl-html-response.pdf
PDF/A-1a format is used for the long-term preservation of electronic documents, ensuring that documents can be accessed and read even as technology changes.
Demo
The demo with the mentioned examples is available at https://github.com/zsevic/pdf-generation-gotenberg-demo repo. It also contains examples using Fetch API and Axios package.
