PDFShift

The HTML to PDF conversion API.

13 followers

The HTML to PDF conversion API.

13 followers

An API to convert HTML/CSS documents to PDF. PDFShift is the reliable, Up-to-date and high-fidelity conversion API with no maintenance costs.

Launch tags:Productivity•Developer Tools

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Design-aware AI for modern product teams.

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Great idea with the "Get more free conversions"...! (https://pdfshift.io/increase)

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7yr ago

ImprovMX

Maker

@leanderb ;) Thanks! A few people are actually using them but I think they aren't enough put in front, I need to work on that!

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7yr ago

We are currently using PDFShift to automate the creation of service contracts. I tried so many converters and after some mails back and forth, PDFShift does exactly, what i need. The support is super friendly and very quick, so it didn't take long to integrate PDFShift into my existing workflow. The only thing i noticed when discovering PDFShift a few months ago is, that they include a meta comment that says "Created by PDFShift" (or similar). While this might be okay in most cases, there should be an option (paid?) to remove this information. Not every company (especially those, which are located in the EU) don't want to disclose, that they are using an external service to create their documents (e.g. invoices or other documents, including sensitive informations).

Pros:

Easy to use, nearly no costs and (my favorite feature) it also allows you to embed vector graphics in your PDF document.

Cons:

No cons that are worth mentioning here.

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7yr ago

I need this!

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7yr ago

ImprovMX

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@arsen_hakobian Good thing we offer it then :) If you need any help, feel free to reach out!

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7yr ago

Could you tell me the duration? Is it just one click?

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7yr ago

ImprovMX

Maker

@igityan_hayarpy It depends on the size of the document you want to convert and the external resource used. If you send a basic HTML with no style and js, it will be amazingly fast. But if you send an URL that contains dozens of CSS script to load on various server on the globe, PDFShift will have to load, wait for the network to get the file before converting it, which adds time to the conversion. I hope that helps :)

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7yr ago

Could you please make subscribe service. I send web addres with article you prepare PDF and delivery to eBook by address or email or by application. It offline reading article.

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7yr ago

ImprovMX

Maker

@vit1251 That's interesting. How would you send it? Via a POST request? Get request? via email? I'm curious to know the intricacy of it. But it wouldn't send an ebook, but a PDF (that's the purpoes of the service ; making a PDF, not an ebook ;) ).

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7yr ago

@cx42net right now I use Instapaper for deffer reading article but service unable to convert some page and sync is require time and wakeup. You may make UI or extension for browser and email address on start for send message with PDF of article. It some think like newspaper subscribe service. Another one is create RSS with article inside PDF.

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7yr ago

Can you also provide a URL to PDF converter? Such that pdfshift.io?website=mywebsite.com will give me a PDF of mywebsite.com based on the print stylesheet? This will be really nice. You can still filter the traffic to authorized users only by providing a script that needs to be embedded with the API key before the link works

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7yr ago

ImprovMX

Maker

@joerex101 That's something I'm trying to figure out. Many users requested me that feature (or the possibility to do the conversion from the client side using Javascript request). My main issue here is that the API key will be public and might be abused. Filtering by website is one possibility, but can be easily spoofed so not secure at all. I'm working on how to do that best, but it will be possible in a near future for sure! Thank you for your message :)

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7yr ago

@cx42net You can request users to enter the website/host that'll be making the request into your platform. That way you only respond to requests from a legitimate host or list of hosts even if the API key is stolen. An extra plus if the user obfuscates their use of the key on the web client but shouldn't matter.

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7yr ago

ImprovMX

Maker

@joerex101 That's the issue :/ Filtering by the host isn't secure, it's really easy to spoof that value. I need to find a more secure way to do so. (you can add a "Host: the-host.com" header in a request, and it will work)

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7yr ago

Supernova.io

Excellent product. Congratulations on the launch - will definitely use it as we are just building an invoice generator for our system :) Thanks for making it

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7yr ago

ImprovMX

Maker

@jirka_trecak Thank you!! If you need any help setting it up, feel free to reach out to me :)

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7yr ago

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