url2pdf

Command-line utility for downloading an offline copy of a website and converting all HTML pages to a single PDF document.

Installation:

npm install --global @warren-bank/save-website-to-pdf

Usage:

url2pdf <options>

options:
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"-h"
"--help"
    Print a help message describing all command-line options.

"-v"
"--version"
    Display the version.

"-u" <URL>
"--url" <URL>
"--input-url" <URL>
    Specify the URL at which to begin recursively downloading a website.

"-d" <dirpath>
"--dir" <dirpath>
"--output-html-dir" <dirpath>
    Specifies the directory path where an offline copy of a website will be saved.

"-o" <filepath>
"--pdf" <filepath>
"--output-pdf-file" <filepath>
    Specifies the file path where the resulting .pdf file will be saved.

"--hooks" <filepath>
    Specifies the file path to a CommonJS module that can export various hooks to configure and modify behavior.

Hooks:

• please refer to this complete example
  • it implements a "two-pass" strategy
    • 1st pass: extracts a table of contents to a new title page
    • 2nd pass: removes unwanted DOM elements (ex: header, footer, side navigation menu) before generating the final PDF document

Requirements:

• node
  • tested with: 13.14.0
• wget
  • tested with: 1.19.4 for windows
• prince
  • tested with: 13.5

Legal:

• copyright: Warren Bank
• license: GPL-2.0