SelectPdf Online REST API - Perl Client

HTML To PDF API - Perl Client

SelectPdf HTML To PDF Online REST API is a professional solution that lets you create PDF from web pages and raw HTML code in your applications. The API is easy to use and the integration takes only a few lines of code.

Features

Create PDF from any web page or html string.
Full html5/css3/javascript support.
Set PDF options such as page size and orientation, margins, security, web page settings.
Set PDF viewer options and PDF document information.
Create custom headers and footers for the pdf document.
Hide web page elements during the conversion.
Automatically generate bookmarks during the html to pdf conversion.
Support for partial page conversion.
Easy integration, no third party libraries needed.
Works in all programming languages.
No installation required.

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Pdf Merge API

SelectPdf offers a REST API that can be used to merge PDF documents from local disk or remote url.

Pdf To Text API

SelectPdf offers a REST API that can be used to extract text from local or remote PDF documents and search in existing PDF documents.

Installation

Download selectpdf-api-perl-client-1.4.0.zip, unzip it and run:

cd selectpdf-api-perl-client-1.4.0
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

OR

Install SelectPdf Perl Client for Online API via CPAN: SelectPdf on CPAN.

cpanm SelectPdf

OR

Clone selectpdf-api-perl-client from Github and install the library.

git clone https://github.com/selectpdf/selectpdf-api-perl-client
cd selectpdf-api-perl-client
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Sample Code

local $| = 1;

use strict;
use JSON;
use SelectPdf;

print "This is SelectPdf-$SelectPdf::VERSION.\n";

my $url = "https://selectpdf.com/";
my $local_file = "Test.pdf";
my $apiKey = "Your API key here";

eval {
    my $client = new SelectPdf::HtmlToPdfClient($apiKey);
    
    # set parameters - see full list at https://selectpdf.com/html-to-pdf-api/
    $client
        # main properties
        
        ->setPageSize("A4") # PDF page size
        ->setPageOrientation("Portrait") # PDF page orientation
        ->setMargins(0) # PDF page margins
        ->setRenderingEngine('WebKit') # rendering engine
        ->setConversionDelay(1) # conversion delay
        ->setNavigationTimeout(30) # navigation timeout
        ->setShowPageNumbers('False') # page numbers
        ->setPageBreaksEnhancedAlgorithm('True') # enhanced page break algorithm

        # additional properties

        #->setUseCssPrint('True') # enable CSS media print
        #->setDisableJavascript('True') # disable javascript
        #->setDisableInternalLinks('True') # disable internal links
        #->setDisableExternalLinks('True') # disable external links
        #->setKeepImagesTogether('True') # keep images together
        #->setScaleImages('True') # scale images to create smaller pdfs
        #->setSinglePagePdf('True') # generate a single page PDF
        #->setUserPassword('password') # secure the PDF with a password

        # generate automatic bookmarks
        
        #->setPdfBookmarksSelectors("H1, H2") # create outlines (bookmarks) for the specified elements
        #->setViewerPageMode(1) # 1 (Use Outlines) - display outlines (bookmarks) in viewer
    ;

    print "Starting conversion ...\n";

    # convert url to file
    $client->convertUrlToFile($url, $local_file);

    # convert url to memory
    # my $pdf = $client->convertUrl($url);

    # convert html string to file
    # $client->convertHtmlStringToFile("This is some <b>html</b>.", $local_file);

    # convert html string to memory
    # my $pdf = $client->convertHtmlString("This is some <b>html</b>.");

    print "Finished! Number of pages: " . $client->getNumberOfPages() . ".\n";

    # get API usage
    my $usageClient = new SelectPdf::UsageClient($apiKey);
    my $usage = $usageClient->getUsage();
    print("Usage: " . encode_json($usage) . "\n");
    print("Conversions remained this month: ". $usage->{"available"});
};

if ($@) {
    print "An error occurred: $@\n";  
}

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