printeer

Printeer

Printeer is a litttle yet robust print to PDF/PNG utility. It employs Puppeteer, which makes it simple to print the website to PDF. It may be used as a command-line utility or a library. It does not yet support any print options yet. They will, however, be added in the future.

It automatically detects the output format from the file extension. If the extension is .pdf, it will print to PDF. If the extension is .png, it will print to PNG. If the extension is anything else, it will print to PDF.

Run printeer as a command-line utility

Printeer has a comprehensive and easy-to-use command-line interface. It can be used as a library as well.

Install printeer globally

npm install printeer -g

Print a webpage to PDF or PNG

Printeer automatically detects the output format from the file extension. If the extension is .pdf, it will print to PDF. If the extension is .png, it will print to PNG. If the extension is anything else, it will print to PDF.

# Print a webpage to PDF
printeer <url> <output.pdf>

# Print a webpage to PNG
printeer <url> <output.png>

Use printeer as a library

To use it as a library, install it locally and import it.

Install printeer locally:

npm install printeer

// Import printeer
import printeer from 'printeer'

async function print() {
  // Print a webpage to PDF
  const resPDF = await printeer('https://google.com', 'google.pdf');
  console.log("PDF saved to", resPDF);

  // Print a webpage to PNG
  const resPNG = await printeer('https://google.com', 'google.png');
  console.log("PNG saved to", resPNG);
}

function main() {
  print().
  catch((e) => {
    console.log("An error occurred while printing the webpage.")
    console.error(e);
  });
}

// Run main function
main();

Roadmap

• Initial printeer cli command
• Use it as library through printeer function
• Support web to png printing
• Accept page size and other print options
• Run printeer as a service (with a web interface) with CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol) to print webpages to PDF and PNG

Note: Master branch is not stable. Use the latest release instead.