Comment on Ask HN: Is PDF generation a real pain for developers?Comments−gee_totes13yCan I send a URL to the API and it will return a PDF? That is something I would use for sure.−knkellaOP13yYes it will. Can we talk more about it?−gee_totes13ySo I could send it www.google.com and it would return a .pdf of google.com, exactly as it would look in the browser?−knkellaOP13ySorry I must have misunderstood. That is what HTML2PDF engines do. We generate PDFs using our own templates.−gee_totes13yYeah, sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm looking for a service that will do HTML2PDF from an API call.HTML2PDFAAS, as I like to call it :)
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Can I send a URL to the API and it will return a PDF? That is something I would use for sure.
Yes it will. Can we talk more about it?
So I could send it www.google.com and it would return a .pdf of google.com, exactly as it would look in the browser?
Sorry I must have misunderstood. That is what HTML2PDF engines do. We generate PDFs using our own templates.
Yeah, sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm looking for a service that will do HTML2PDF from an API call.
HTML2PDFAAS, as I like to call it :)