pdfmiweb-pdf-client

0.1.5 • Public • Published

pdfmiweb-pdf-client

Client for Node.js to use pdfmiweb API service. For more informacion go to http://pdfmiweb.com/api

##Usage:

npm install pdfmiweb-pdf-client

var pdfmiwebPdfClient = require('pdfmiweb-pdf-client').PDF;
var PDF = new pdfmiwebPdfClient("http://api.pdfmiweb.com", "[[YOUR APPID]]", "[[YOUR APIKEY]]")

To get an APPID and APIKEY go to http://usuarios.pdfmiweb.com

###Creating PDFs Only creates PDFs in API server. for get it use PDF.get().

var params = {
    webPage: "http://yourwebpage.com/articles?id=20",
    paperSize: "A3", //optional, defaults A4
    orientation: "landscape", //optional defaults "portrait"
    paperMargins: "1cm", //optional defaults "0cm"
};
    
PDF.create(params, function (err, res) {
    if (res.body.status) {
        console.log("API says PDF has been created :)");
    } else {
        console.log("API says PDF has not been created :(");
    }
});

###Getting PDFs (and optionally storing locally)

var params = {
    webPage: "http://yourwebpage.com/articles?id=20",
    paperSize: "A3", //optional, defaults A4
    orientation: "landscape", //optional defaults "portrait"
    paperMargins: "1cm", //optional defaults "0cm"
};

//You can get a PDF as stream and do what you want:
PDF.get(params, function (res, pdfStream) {
    if (res.statusCode == 200) {
        console.log("pdfStream contains the PDF. You can use PDF.save() to store locally or Express's res.download() to sent to browser.");
    } else if (res.statusCode == 404) {
        console.log("PDF does not exist, you should create before using PDF.create()");
    } else {
        console.log("oops!");
    }
});

//Or use in tandem with `PDF.save()` to store locally: 
PDF.get(params, function (res, pdfStream) {
    PDF.save(pdfStream, "path/to/save/a-name-for-this.pdf", function (err, filepath) {
        if (err) throw err;
        //And maybe sent to user
        res.download(filepath);
    });
});

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