Docs to PDF

📌 Introduction

This is a PDF generator from document website such as docusaurus. This is a fork of mr-pdf which was not maintained anymore. Feel free to contribute to this project.

📦 Installation

npm install -g docs-to-pdf

🚀 Quick Start

npx docs-to-pdf --initialDocURLs="https://docusaurus.io/docs/" --contentSelector="article" --paginationSelector="a.pagination-nav__link.pagination-nav__link--next" --excludeSelectors=".margin-vert--xl a,[class^='tocCollapsible'],.breadcrumbs,.theme-edit-this-page" --coverImage="https://docusaurus.io/img/docusaurus.png" --coverTitle="Docusaurus v2"

⚡ Usage

For Docusaurus v2

npx docs-to-pdf docusaurus --initialDocURLs="https://docusaurus.io/docs/"

OR

npx docs-to-pdf --initialDocURLs="https://docusaurus.io/docs/" --contentSelector="article" --paginationSelector="a.pagination-nav__link.pagination-nav__link--next" --excludeSelectors=".margin-vert--xl a,[class^='tocCollapsible'],.breadcrumbs,.theme-edit-this-page" --coverImage="https://docusaurus.io/img/docusaurus.png" --coverTitle="Docusaurus v2"

🍗 CLI Global Options

Option	Required	Description
--initialDocURLs	Yes	set URL to start generating PDF from.
--contentSelector	No	used to find the part of main content
--paginationSelector	No	CSS Selector used to find next page to be printed for looping.
--excludeURLs	No	URLs to be excluded in PDF
--excludeSelectors	No	exclude selectors from PDF. Separate each selector with comma and no space. But you can use space in each selector. ex: --excludeSelectors=".nav,.next > a"
--cssStyle	No	CSS style to adjust PDF output ex: --cssStyle="body{padding-top: 0;}" *If you're project owner you can use @media print { } to edit CSS for PDF.
--outputPDFFilename	No	name of the output PDF file. Default is docs-to-pdf.pdf
--pdfMargin	No	set margin around PDF file. Separate each margin with comma and no space. ex: --pdfMargin="10,20,30,40". This sets margin top: 10px, right: 20px, bottom: 30px, left: 40px
--paperFormat	No	pdf format ex: --paperFormat="A3". Please check this link for available formats Puppeteer document
--disableTOC	No	Optional toggle to show the table of contents or not
--coverTitle	No	Title for the PDF cover.
--coverImage	No	<src> Image for PDF cover (does not support SVG)
--coverSub	No	Subtitle the for PDF cover. Add <br/> tags for multiple lines.
--headerTemplate	No	HTML template for the print header. Please check this link for details of injecting values Puppeteer document
--footerTemplate	No	HTML template for the print footer. Please check this link for details of injecting values Puppeteer document
--puppeteerArgs	No	Add puppeteer BrowserLaunchArgumentOptions arguments ex: --sandbox Puppeteer document
--protocolTimeout	No	Timeout setting for individual protocol calls in milliseconds. If omitted, the default value of 180000 ms (3 min) is used
--filterKeyword	No	Only adds pages to the PDF containing a given meta keywords. Makes it possible to generate PDFs of selected pages
--baseUrl	No	Base URL for all relative URLs. Allows to render the pdf on localhost (ci/Github Actions) while referencing the deployed page.
--excludePaths	No	URL Paths to be excluded
--restrictPaths	No	Keep Only URL Path with the same rootPath as --initialDocURLs

Docusaurus Options

Option	Required	Description
--version	No	Docusaurus version. Default is 2.
--builDir	No	Path to Docusaurus build dir. Either absolute or relative from path of the shell

🎨 Examples and Demo PDF

Docusaurus v2

https://docusaurus.io/

initialDocURLs: https://docusaurus.io/docs

demoPDF: https://github.com/jean-humann/docs-to-pdf/blob/master/pdf/v2-docusaurus.pdf

command:

npx docs-to-pdf docusaurus --initialDocURLs="https://docusaurus.io/docs/"

OR

npx docs-to-pdf --initialDocURLs="https://docusaurus.io/docs/" --contentSelector="article" --paginationSelector="a.pagination-nav__link.pagination-nav__link--next" --excludeSelectors=".margin-vert--xl a,[class^='tocCollapsible'],.breadcrumbs,.theme-edit-this-page" --coverImage="https://docusaurus.io/img/docusaurus.png" --coverTitle="Docusaurus v2"

Docusaurus v1 - Legacy

https://docusaurus.io/en/

initialDocURLs: https://docusaurus.io/docs/en/installation

demoPDF: https://github.com/jean-humann/docs-to-pdf/blob/master/pdf/v1-docusaurus.pdf

command:

npx docs-to-pdf docusaurus --initialDocURLs="https://docusaurus.io/docs/en/installation" --version=1

OR

npx docs-to-pdf --initialDocURLs="https://docusaurus.io/docs/en/installation" --contentSelector="article" --paginationSelector=".docs-prevnext > a.docs-next" --excludeSelectors=".fixedHeaderContainer,footer.nav-footer,#docsNav,nav.onPageNav,a.edit-page-link,div.docs-prevnext" --cssStyle=".navPusher {padding-top: 0;}" --pdfMargin="20"

PR to add new docs is welcome here... 😸

📄 How docs-to-pdf works

1. puppeteer can make html to PDF like you can print HTML page in chrome browser
2. so, the idea of docs-to-pdf is generating one big HTML through looping page link, then run page.pdf() from puppeteer to generate PDF.

🎉 Thanks

This repo's code is coming from https://github.com/KohheePeace/mr-pdf.

Thanks for awesome code made by @KohheePeace, @maxarndt and @aloisklink.

@bojl approach to make TOC was awesome and breakthrough.