WKHtmlToPDF as Service via PHP REST API built with Silex framework

REST service to generate PDF files of given URL(s).

What is inside:

• wkhtmltopdf tool to generate PDF from HTML
• phpwkhtmltopdf PHP class-wrapper for wkhtmltopdf CLI
• Silex PHP mini-framework to build REST API service
• Ansible Vagrant/Server provision scripts

Local development

git clone git@github.com:M1r1k/wkhtmltopdf_php_saas.git
cd wkhtmltopdf_php_saas
vagrant up

Add "192.168.150.250 wkhtmltopdf.dev" to /etc/hosts.

Then make POST to generate Google frontpage.

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"url":"https://www.google.com/"}' http://wkhtmltopdf.dev/rest/pdf/generate > test.pdf

Deploying to server (Digital Ocean example)

Create Droplet on DO

Change hosts file IP to your new server

sh run.sh

Add "YOUR_DROPLET_IP wkhtmltopdf.prod" to /etc/hosts.

!!!BINGOOOO!!!