wkhtmltopdf is an open-source command-line tool to convert HTML into PDF. It is widely used by applications to generate invoices and other pdf documents. for example, a python or PHP script will use it through its respective shell command to convert any URL to a PDF.
The use is very easy, simple call wkhtmltopdf from the terminal with source URL and destination pdf name. for example
If you want to capture a google doodle (whenever there is) you can the command will be
wkhtmltopdf http://google.com mydoodle.pdf
or want to keep the current version of Twitter to save your trending tweets records,
Installing wkhtmltopdf on cPanel
Installation is pretty straight forward as would any rpm package.
Download
Download the appropriate version from https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html. For sake of this article, our server is running centOS 7.9 with cPanel version v92.0.5. Please note that all downloads are currently on GitHub, so you can also browse for a specific download from there or use the links below. There are many other sources that you can found by googling it, but as a rule of thumb always go for an official source.The package also includes wkhtmltoimage (used to convert any webpage/ URL to a number of image formats) sources and hence is named as wkhtmltox
Install
To install wkhtmltopdf RPM that we just downloaded, use the following command
sudo rpm -i wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos7.x86_64.rpm
The -i switch is of course instructing rpm to install the package
Or alternately you can use yum package manager, use the following command with localinstall option, instructing yum to look within the current directory for wkhtmltox RPMsudo yum localinstall wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos7.x86_64.rpm
Test
Test executable while converting the homepage of cpanelplesk.com into pdf. On WHM/cPanel terminal window or on SSH console use following command
wkhtmltopdf https://cpanelplesk.com my-favorate-webhosting-blog.pdf
Loading pages (1/6) Counting pages (2/6) Resolving links (4/6) Loading headers and footers (5/6) Printing pages (6/6) Done
wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6-1/wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos7.x86_64.rpm
--2020-12-19 10:52:56-- https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/downl oad/0.12.6-1/wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos7.x86_64.rpm Resolving github.com (github.com)... 140.82.121.3 Connecting to github.com (github.com)|140.82.121.3|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Resolving github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)... 52.217.45.44 Connecting to github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-pr oduction-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)|52.217.45.44|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 14071376 (13M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: ‘wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos7.x86_64.rpm’100%[======================================>] 14,071,376 10.8MB/s in 1.2s2020-12-19 10:52:58 (10.8 MB/s) - ‘wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos7.x86_64.rpm’ saved [14071376/14071376]
and wooha, Its all done
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