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Benjamin Mock
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📷 More on Screenshots with JavaScript in Node.js (creating PDFs)

#javascript #webdev #puppeteer

In the previous example we created a png screenshot. But we can also generate PDFs in various formats!

// instead of calling await page.screenshot we now call await page.pdf({ path: 'codesnacks.pdf', format: 'A4' })
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For completeness, here's the full code to generate a PDF of a webpage in the A4 format:

// npm i puppeteer const puppeteer = require('puppeteer'); // we're using async/await - so we need an async function, that we can run const run = async () => { // open the browser and prepare a page const browser = await puppeteer.launch(); const page = await browser.newPage(); await page.goto('https://codesnacks.net/'); await page.pdf({ path: 'codesnacks.pdf', format: 'A4', }); // close the browser await browser.close(); }; // run the async function run();
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