Installation
pip install --upgrade docraptor
or
easy_install --upgrade docraptor
If you are on a system with easy_install but not pip, you can use easy_install instead. If you're not using virtualenv, you may have to prefix those commands with sudo.
Usage
See examples for runnable examples with file output, error handling, etc.
import docraptor
docraptor.configuration.username = "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
# docraptor.configuration.debug = True
doc_api = docraptor.DocApi()
response = doc_api.create_doc({
"test": True, # test documents are free but watermarked
"document_content": "<html><body>Hello World</body></html>", # supply content directly
# "document_url": "http://docraptor.com/examples/invoice.html", # or use a url
"name": "docraptor-python.pdf", # help you find a document later
"document_type": "pdf", # pdf or xls or xlsx
# "javascript": True, # enable JavaScript processing
# "prince_options": {
# "media": "screen", # use screen styles instead of print styles
# "baseurl": "http://hello.com", # pretend URL when using document_content
# },
})
Docs created like this are limited to 60 seconds to render, check out the async example which allows 10 minutes.