Generate PDFs through the REST API

// Node.js with native fetch
const response = await fetch('https://api.pdf-mcp.io/htmlToPdf', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': `Bearer ${process.env.PDF_MCP_API_KEY}`,
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    html: `
      <html>
        <head>
          <style>
            body { font-family: Arial, sans-serif; }
            .header { color: #333; border-bottom: 2px solid #e11d48; }
          </style>
        </head>
        <body>
          <h1 class="header">Invoice #${invoiceId}</h1>
          <p>Amount: $${amount}</p>
        </body>
      </html>
    `,
    css: '@page { size: A4; margin: 20mm; }',
    filename: `invoice-${invoiceId}.pdf`
  })
});

const pdf = await response.arrayBuffer();
fs.writeFileSync('invoice.pdf', Buffer.from(pdf));

# Python with requests library
import requests
import os

def generate_pdf(html: str, filename: str, css: str = "") -> bytes:
    """Generate PDF from HTML using pdf-mcp API"""
    response = requests.post(
        "https://api.pdf-mcp.io/htmlToPdf",
        headers={
            "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['PDF_MCP_API_KEY']}",
            "Content-Type": "application/json"
        },
        json={
            "html": html,
            "css": css or "@page { size: A4; margin: 20mm; }",
            "filename": filename
        }
    )
    response.raise_for_status()

    with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
        f.write(response.content)

    return response.content

# Usage with Jinja2 template
from jinja2 import Template
template = Template(open('invoice.html').read())
html = template.render(customer=customer, items=items)
generate_pdf(html, 'invoice.pdf')

// Go with net/http
package main

import (
    "bytes"
    "encoding/json"
    "io"
    "net/http"
    "os"
)

type PDFRequest struct {
    HTML     string `json:"html"`
    CSS      string `json:"css,omitempty"`
    Filename string `json:"filename,omitempty"`
}

func generatePDF(html string) ([]byte, error) {
    payload := PDFRequest{
        HTML:     html,
        CSS:      "@page { size: A4; margin: 20mm; }",
        Filename: "document.pdf",
    }

    body, _ := json.Marshal(payload)
    req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST",
        "https://api.pdf-mcp.io/htmlToPdf",
        bytes.NewBuffer(body))

    req.Header.Set("Authorization",
        "Bearer "+os.Getenv("PDF_MCP_API_KEY"))
    req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

    resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
    if err != nil {
        return nil, err
    }
    defer resp.Body.Close()

    return io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
}