With the PDF Generator API your users can easily create and manage different document templates with an easy-to-use browser based document editor and via API.
An API and template builder to generate PDF documents from Your software, from Your data.
You will first need to register for a PDFGeneratorAPI account to use this API. It's free to sign up, and use for testing and integration process.
Supports Python 3+ To install, simply use pip
$ sudo pip install pdfgeneratorapi
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>>> from pdfgeneratorapi import PDFGenerator
>>> pdf_client = PDFGenerator(api_key='<PDF_GENERATOR_KEY>', api_secret='<PDF_GENERATOR_SECRET>')
>>> pdf_client.set_workspace('<PDF_GENERATOR_WORKSPACE>')
You can pass the api_key
, api_secret
and workspace
explicitly. Alternatively, declare these environment variables PDF_GENERATOR_KEY
, PDF_GENERATOR_SECRET
.
For wrapper usage code snippets please check examples.py
>>> from pdfgeneratorapi import PDFGenerator
>>> pdf_client = PDFGenerator(api_key='<PDF_GENERATOR_KEY>', api_secret='<PDF_GENERATOR_SECRET>')
>>> pdf_client.set_workspace('<PDF_GENERATOR_WORKSPACE>')
>>> new_pdf = pdf_client.create_document(template_id=48484, data={"name": "Sameer Kumar"}, document_format="pdf", response_format="url")
>>> new_pdf.response
'https://us1.pdfgeneratorapi.com/share/5434/ce2fc41de8e51fc7db2cbc1700075a92'
>>> templates = pdf_client.all_templates(tags=['test_tag'], access=['private'])
>>> templates[0].id
1234
>>> templates[0].name
'Some name'
>>> template = pdf_client.get_template(template_id=<TEMPLATE_ID>)
>>> template.layout.format
'A4'
>>> new_template = pdf_client.create_template(name='<TEMPLATE_NAME>')
>>> new_template.id
24386
>>> new_template.name
'My new template'
>>> copy_template = pdf_client.create_template_copy(template_id=48484, name="Copied template")
>>> copy_template.layout.format
'A4'
>>> editor_url = pdf_client.get_editor_url(template_id=48484, data={"name": "Sameer"})
'https://us1.pdfgeneratorapi.com/api/v3/templates/19375/editor?key=61e5f04ca1794253ed17e6bb986c1702&workspace=demo.example@actualreports.com&signature=75d7c8fb0c06942da2bf76422f1a79eb72cada6d7ab07f7a7d0eaf8d510897d9&data=https://myawesomeapp.com/data/9129381823.json'
All PDFGeneratorResponse objects have two extra attributes:
to_json
: Returns the API response in raw JSON format.to_dict
: Returns the API response in python dict format.
Set the following environment variable:
PDF_GENERATOR_KEY
PDF_GENERATOR_SECRET
PDF_GENERATOR_WORKSPACE
Run the test with the following command:
$ python setup.py test
You can explicitly override certain default assumptions like -
- Authentication: Signature Authentication. To use Simple Authentication, simple pass
signature_auth=False
in the object init. - API URL:
https://<REGION>.pdfgeneratorapi.com/api/<API_VERSION>/
. To override -api_url='<SOME_URL>'
. - API Key:
api_key
. Default loads from environment varPDF_GENERATOR_KEY
- API Secret:
api_secret
. Default loads from environment varPDF_GENERATOR_SECRET
- Workspace:
workspace
. Default loads from environment varPDF_GENERATOR_WORKSPACE
- API Region:
api_region
. Default - "us1" - API Version:
api_version
. Default - "v3" - Document Format:
document_format
. Default - "pdf" - Response Format:
response_format
. Default - "base64"
Please see https://docs.pdfgeneratorapi.com/ for complete up-to-date documentation.
PDF Generator API is a RESTful API and a template builder for creating PDF documents from Your software, from Your data. With PDF Generator API you can allow your users to create and manage different document templates with an easy-to-use browser based document editor. And you can merge templates with data from your own software via RESTful API to generate PDF and HTML documents.
If you have any API related query/issue please contact support@pdfgeneratorapi.com
For any wrapper related query/issue, please raise a GitHub issue.
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