🧾 Website to PDF Converter — URL & HTML to PDF (Playwright)

Convert any website URL or raw HTML into a clean, high-quality PDF in seconds.
This Actor renders pages using Playwright (real Chromium printing pipeline) and exports PDFs with configurable paper sizes and optional proxy support.

If you need a reliable URL to PDF, HTML to PDF, or Webpage to PDF converter for automation, archiving, compliance, or reporting—this is built for speed and production workflows.

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✅ What this Actor does

This Actor generates PDFs from:

• Live URL mode: Convert https://example.com/page → PDF
• Raw HTML mode: Paste HTML → PDF (perfect for invoices, receipts, templates)

It outputs a dataset with:

• Downloadable PDF URL
• Source URL (or “Raw HTML”)
• Paper format and metadata

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🚀 Why use Website to PDF Converter?

Feature	Typical Tools	✅ This Actor
Rendering	Screenshot-like or broken prints	Real Playwright PDF print engine
Inputs	URL only OR HTML only	Both URL + Raw HTML
Formats	Limited sizes	A4 / Letter / Legal / A3 / Tabloid
Backgrounds	Often missing	Print background support
Automation	Hard to integrate	Apify-ready dataset + Key-Value PDF output
Reliability	Blocked by geo/IP	Optional proxy support

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🎯 Best use cases (high-intent)

• Website archiving: snapshot pages for compliance or record-keeping
• Reports & dashboards: export public pages as PDFs
• Invoices & receipts: render HTML templates into printable PDFs
• Compliance & legal: store time-stamped PDF copies of pages
• Automation pipelines: generate PDFs and forward to email/Drive/S3 workflows
• SEO audits & documentation: keep historical page versions

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🛠 How to Use

1. Choose Source Type
   • Live URL: converts a URL
   • Raw HTML Code: converts provided HTML
2. Select Paper Format
3. Enable/disable Print Backgrounds
4. (Recommended for URL mode) Enable Proxy
5. Run the Actor and download the PDF from the dataset

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⚙️ Input Configuration

sourceType (required)

• url — convert a live website URL
• html — convert pasted HTML content

url (required when sourceType=url)

Example: https://apify.com

html (required when sourceType=html)

Paste raw HTML (useful for server-rendered templates)

format

Paper size:

• A4 (default)
• Letter
• Legal
• A3
• Tabloid

printBackground

Include background graphics/colors (default: true)

proxyConfiguration

Recommended for URL conversions to avoid IP blocks.

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✅ Example Input (URL → PDF)

{
  "sourceType": "url",
  "url": "https://apify.com",
  "format": "A4",
  "printBackground": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

📦 Output (Dataset)

Each run produces a dataset item like:

{
  "status": "success",
  "sourceType": "url",
  "source": "https://apify.com",
  "pdfUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/XXXX/records/document-1700000000000.pdf",
  "format": "A4",
  "createdAt": "2026-01-13T10:15:00.000Z"
}

Output fields

pdfUrl — direct downloadable PDF link (public)

sourceType — url or html

source — source URL or “Raw HTML”

format — selected page size

createdAt — ISO timestamp

Optional: pageCount can be added if you want. (See Roadmap.)

🔒 Reliability & proxy notes

Some sites block automated traffic, geo-restrict content, or throttle requests. For best reliability in URL mode, enable:

{ "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }

##⚡ Performance notes

This Actor uses:

Playwright headless rendering

waitUntil: networkidle for stable final layout

page.emulateMedia({ media: 'screen' }) to print “as seen on screen”

Tight margins for consistent PDF output

🧯 Troubleshooting

“URL is required for URL mode.”

Set:

{ "sourceType": "url", "url": "https://example.com" }

“HTML content is required for HTML mode.”

Set:

{ "sourceType": "html", "html": "..." }

Blank PDF or missing styles

Some sites load styles late. Try:

Ensure the page is publicly accessible

Use proxy

If the site uses heavy JS, consider adding a wait for a selector in code (advanced)

Blocked / Access denied

Enable proxy, or use a different proxy group.

🔍 SEO keywords (what this Actor targets)

People search for:

website to pdf converter

url to pdf

webpage to pdf

html to pdf

playwright pdf

print website to pdf

invoice html to pdf

automated pdf generation

This Actor is built to rank for these keywords inside Apify Store and to match Google search intent.

🗺 Roadmap

Planned improvements:

pageCount extraction (PDF page count in output)

advanced waiting options (wait for selector, timeout config)

custom margins and landscape mode

header/footer templates (page numbers, timestamps)

batch mode (multiple URLs in one run)

Support & Feedback

If you need new features (multi-url batch, pageCount, header/footer, custom margins), open an issue in the Actor page with:

example URL or sample HTML

desired PDF settings

expected output format