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Python 3 wkhtmltopdf & PDFKit Library Script to Convert HTML & CSS to PDF in Terminal
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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so in this video I will show you uh how
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to basically convert your HTML files
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with CSS into PDF inside Python using
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this package which is PDF kit it's a
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very popular package for converting your
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HTML files into PDF using WK HTML to PDF
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binary executable so you simply install
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this module by executing this command
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pip install PDF kit i have already
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installed this module apart from that
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you will also need to install WK HTML2
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PDF it's a binary here which you do need
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to install it's open source simply go to
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the website and download this pre-ompile
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binary after you download this so
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basically it uh stores inside your C
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drive so inside your program
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files it basically
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stores with this name wk html to pdf so
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once you install this go to the bin
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folder copy this path and just add this
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into the environment variable so once
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you add this go to the system
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path i've already added this you can see
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that click new and add this path i've
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already added this path so once you add
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the path you can directly use this PDF
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kit library now just create a simple app
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py file and then we simply import this
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pdfkit library and after that there is a
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single line here which contains this
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from file function from
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file and here we simply provide the
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input HTML file that we need to convert
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to PDF so then the output file name
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let's suppose I say result PDF so simply
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two lines of code we import the module
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and then it contains this function here
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we provide the input HTML file this is
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your output PDF file so now once I run
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this script here you will
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see result.pdf PDF will be created and
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this is your HTML right here this file
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it contains a series of
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headings a table as well so this is your
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HTML file and this is your PDF
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file so it successfully converted
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everything and the nice thing is that
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you can even import CSS as well so
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custom CSS you can apply here h1 let's
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suppose I say color should be red and
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for the paragraph I say the color should
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be green so we are applying some custom
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CSS and once again if you do this you
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will see it will apply that custom CSS
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you can see
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that so it's a very good library guys
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PDF kit WK HTML to PDF in Python for
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converting your HTML and CSS into PDF so
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definitely use it and also Check out my
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website freemediattools.com
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uh which contains thousands of tools