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Python 3 wkhtmltoimage Script Example to Export HTML & CSS Template to Image Using imgkit Library
Jun 3, 2025
Get the full source code of application here:
https://codingshiksha.com/python/python-3-wkhtmltoimage-script-example-to-export-html-css-template-to-image-using-imgkit-library/
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I will show you a Python
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script which will actually convert your
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HTML plus the CSS into an actual image
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so as you can see right here we having
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this uh HTML file template we have with
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this HTML code right here and we are
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generating a image from this so inside
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this Python script so as I run this
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Python script you will actually see
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image file will be generated it can be
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JPG or PNG so let me run the file here
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python let me navigate to the folder and
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then just type Python app py so as I run
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the script here you will see output
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image jpg file will be generated and you
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can see we successfully created this
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image uh just wait let me zoom open my
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zoom it tool so that I can zoom it on
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particular
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element so this is actually the image
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generated you will see that we got the
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heading we got the paragraph as well so
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this is actually the HTML that we got
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here we have the H1 heading and we have
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a simple paragraph as well so we are
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simply generating this image from this
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HTML you can even uh let me show you the
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package name uh just go to the website
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of Python where you can search for
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thirdparty packages so we are using this
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package which is image kit this is a
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very popular package for converting HTML
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to image using the webkit rendering
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engine so the command is simple you
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simply execute this command to install
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this package i've already installed it
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and for working this you need to have
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this library installed so simply install
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this library WK HTML to PDF this is a
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open-source library you should have this
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installed before you execute this so
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download this pre-ompile
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binary simply click it and select your
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operating system and install this after
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installation basically it will install
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inside your C drive in the program files
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it will create this folder
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WK you will see it create this folder WK
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HTML to PDF so go to the bin folder and
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right here you will see all the binaries
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so we are using this binary here WK HTML
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to image this is actually the exe binary
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which converts your HTML to actual image
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so just make sure that you add this
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whole path just right click copy this
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path and go to environment variable and
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simply go to the path
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variable and add this path i've already
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added this path here you can see and
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then just restart your terminal and then
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execute this application so now let me
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show you the Python script so just
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create a simple app py file and right
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here you first of all import the package
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which is image kit then we simply have a
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HTML
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string
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so right here you can actually write
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your basic HTML
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code you can see that
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You can have the
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title you can even add some uh basically
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the CSS styles as
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well and then we can actually close this
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style
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so as you can see we are also
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having this custom CSS and we basically
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change the font family background color
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margin padding H1 P and inside this we
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will have the
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body so inside the body we will have the
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H1 heading we have the
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paragraph and image tag and another
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paragraph so this is our HTML template
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guys that we need to export this
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template to an actual image file this
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image get module inside Python contains
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this function from string and then you
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actually pass this HTML string and then
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the output jpg or png any file name
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that's all that's all that we need to do
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and if you execute this application now
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just execute the
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script so it is saying
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that fail to load h just make sure that
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you don't put the image tag because yeah
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so don't put this image tag just have
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the basic HTML tag and now you will see
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the JPG file will be created this is
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your heading this is your paragraph and
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if you see let me change the background
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to red
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color so now you can see background has
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been changed to red color and if I
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change this
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heading text color to yellow color and
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then this paragraph to green
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again do this you can see it is applying
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all these CSS styles as well inside the
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image text color is yellow background
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color red so in this way guys you can
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use this package in Python image kit to
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actually export your HTML template or
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file so this you can even take this if
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you're having a file rather than the
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string you can create this file as well
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so index html you can create this file
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this template and then you can actually
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use this method which is from
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file you can see that you can take this
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from file and you can pass this template
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here which
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is this also contains this so rather
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than taking it from
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the you can take it from the actual
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template then you can even pass some
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options quality
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100 can control this so now if you see
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it actually created this you'll see
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that so you can even create this from
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the HTML file as well so this is
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actually the module guys thank you very
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