This artifact is highly recommended. One line command will convert the web page to PDF!

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In daily work and life , We often encounter a need ： Save the page as PDF.

such as , I prefer an article on a official account , To prevent articles from being deleted , I want to save this historical article of the official account as PDF file , Put it in your local hard drive , You can show it at any time .

The method I used before is the function of the browser , Using shortcut keys Ctrl + P Or right click on the page in the browser , And then choose “ Print ” Options , Call up the browser print function .

And then “ The printer ” Options “ Save as PDF”, You can output PDF The file .

This process takes a long time , It is possible to operate individual pages occasionally , If there are more pages, you will be more anxious .

I found a useful tool by accident today , It only needs one line of command to realize web page conversion PDF file save .

This artifact is ——wkhtmltopdf！

install

To use wkhtmltopdf , You need to install this software first .

wkhtmltopdf Its official website is ：https://wkhtmltopdf.org/

On the official website Downloads Under navigation , We can see that this software supports multiple operating systems , Select the installation file corresponding to the operating system you are using .

Here's what I downloaded windows edition , Once the download is complete , Direct installation . The installation process is relatively simple , Only a few steps in total , Just configure it by default .

Use

Page to PDF

After the software is installed , You can use it .

Take Baidu home page as an example , Show how to save Baidu homepage as PDF file .

We turn on the terminal , Find... In the installation path bin Catalog , My computer path is like this ：

Then type the command ：

.\wkhtmltopdf.exe  https://baidu.com C:\baidu.pdf

Run this command , Wait for the run to complete , You can find it in the specified directory baidu.pdf The file , I am here C Under the root directory .

This is not limited to the pages on the website , The local html Documents are also available , You just need to https://baidu.com Replace it with your local web path .

here , You need to enter the installation directory of the software to run the command , More trouble . You can put the software's bin Directory added to environment variables , After adding, it can be opened and used in the terminal .

Web page to picture

wkhtmltopdf Not only can the web page be transferred to PDF file save , You can also save web pages as pictures , Just use another command ：

.\wkhtmltoimage.exe  https://baidu.com C:\baidu.png

similarly , Wait for the command to run , You can find it in the corresponding directory baidu.png Pictures. .

summary

wkhtmltopdf Is very simple to use , Even the official website introduces its usage in a few words . Based on this tool , We may be able to do more , For example, call this script command , Turn the web pages crawled down by the crawler into PDF Or picture saving , This is for you to explore and use ！

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