Possibility to send html instead of url?

[pavle-lekic-htec]

Hi,
Thanks for the wonderful library and all the effort that you invested. I have a situation where I'd prefer to send raw html to the bot and get back pdf in return, so no urls just html in POST request, is that possible? Thanks.

[hairylime]

FYI - did a little digging and found that the underlying library accepts data urls, so if you take your html, base64 encode it and then request pdf-bot with a url of data:text/html;base64,<your encoded html here> it will do what you're looking for...

[chilek]

Hi, I tried to convert local file using file protocol:

$ pdf-bot push 'file://full/path/contract.html'
The job was created with ID 82a0112d-7eaa-474a-8b4c-d13ee6a8ec4a

$ pdf-bot shift:all
Found 1 jobs, divided into 1 chunks
Running chunk 1, 0 chunks left
html-pdf-chrome error: Error: HtmlPdf.create() page navigate failed. (job ID: 82a0112d-7eaa-474a-8b4c-d13ee6a8ec4a. Generation ID: 746d2054-267e-4e85-ab46-19d900b5b20c)

As you see above it generates error.
How you can point local file name for pdf-bot?

http, https and data work.

[chilek]

I reply for myself - it is possible, but required some quirk in the following line:

pdf-bot/src/utils.js

Line 2 in a2edd1e

return url.match(/((([A-Za-z]{3,9}:(?:\/\/)?)(?:[\-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)?[A-Za-z0-9\.\-]+|(?:www\.|[\-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)[A-Za-z0-9\.\-]+)((?:\/[\+~%\/\.\w\-_]*)?\??(?:[\-\+=&;%@\.\w_]*)#?(?:[\.\!\/\\\w]*))?)/)

Should be:

var isValidUrl = function (url) {
  return url.match(/(((file:\/|[A-Za-z]{3,9}:(?:\/\/)?)(?:[\-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)?[A-Za-z0-9\.\-]+|(?:www\.|[\-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)[A-Za-z0-9\.\-]+)((?:\/[\+~%\/\.\w\-_]*)?\??(?:[\-\+=&;%@\.\w_]*)#?(?:[\.\!\/\\\w]*))?)/)
}

because for file protocol root directory for full path should contain single slash character as google-chrome headless seems to have such requirement.