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24 alternatives to Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome

🤖 A Node queue API for generating PDFs using headless Chrome. Comes with a CLI, S3 storage and webhooks for notifying subscribers about generated PDFs - esbenp/pdf-bot

Pdf-Bot is a developer tool that generates PDFs using headless Chrome, available as both an API and command-line interface. It's designed for developers who need to convert web content into PDF files programmatically.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Ready-to-use API to convert any web page to PDF using headless Chrome▲129

   Loads a web page in headless Chrome using Puppeteer and prints it to PDF. The input is a JSON object and output is a PDF file.

   2017 · apify.com · its alternatives →

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   PDF to Chatbot▲356

   Talk to your documents

   2023 · thesamur.ai · its alternatives →

3. 3PA
   PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents▲204

   Hi HN, Arek here. We’re super excited to officially launch PSPDFKit API [1]. PSPDFKit API is a collection of HTTP APIs that enable you to convert, generate, and edit documents without running any service on your infrastructure. What differentiates our API from others is that you can chain together multiple “actions” as part of a single API request. For example, you can convert, OCR, watermark, edit, and flatten a document — all in one call. Available actions [2]: - PDF Generator - PDF Converter - Image Converter - OCR - Watermark - Merge - Split - Duplicate - Delete - Flatten Our…

   2022 · its alternatives →

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   ThePDFApi, a Chrome Based PDF Generation API Hosted on AWS▲41

   Hello HN! It kept surprising me how much of a hassle it is to generate a PDF with decent HTML5 rendering from my SaaS apps. I tried several free libs and APIs but ended up with botched rendering a lot of times. So I set out to simplify this chore by creating an AWS hosted HTML to PDF conversion API that's based on Chrome. This API will allow a dev to just send the HTML to our API and get a PDF in response without having to worry about running and managing Chrome somewhere in their infra. I just finished the first version of my landing page and hosted pdf generation API…

   2018 · its alternatives →

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   PDFShift▲386

   Convert any HTML to PDF with a single POST request.

   2018 · pdfshift.io · its alternatives →

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   PDFMonkey▲164

   Automate your PDF generation, get the job done

   2023 · its alternatives →

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   Anvil PDF API▲185

   Twilio for PDFs: esign, fill, generate PDFs with one API

   2021 · useanvil.com · its alternatives →

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   PDF.ai Free tools▲230

   Free PDF tools, merge, split, compress, compress, rotate etc

   2023 · pdf.ai · its alternatives →

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   Paperplane▲166

   Web page to PDF conversion API using Chrome

   2018 · converterer.com · its alternatives →

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    PDF merge API▲98

    Create PDF documents from data and templates

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Webpage to PDF Microservice▲93

    Automate PDF Report Generation

    2018 · imti.co · its alternatives →

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    API Template▲118

    Generate images and PDFs with simple API

    2021 · apitemplate.io · its alternatives →

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    RESTful API to Generate PDF from HTML using Chromium▲7

    A RESTful API to generate PDF converting from HTML - tecnospeed/pastor

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    WebPDF▲103

    Simple PDF API & web toolkit

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    PDF Generator API▲12

    A flexible Web API and template editor for PDF generation

    2020 · pdfgeneratorapi.com · its alternatives →

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    PDF Generator API▲15

    Creating PDF files made easy

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    PDF Otter – Fill in PDFs Online and API▲109

    Fill in PDF templates with the PDF Otter API. Use it to accept eSignatures in your app, repeatedly fill in common PDF forms, or build large scale apps around PDF documents.

    2017 · pdfotter.com · its alternatives →

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    PDFBlade▲87

    The developer-friendly HTML to PDF API

    2020 · pdfblade.com · its alternatives →

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    Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome▲61

    2014 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

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    PDFPipe▲4

    HTML to PDF API for developers. Send HTML or a URL, get a production-quality PDF in about a second. 500 free documents a month, no card required.

    Jun 2026 · pdfpipe.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Docstron▲7

    The PDF Generation API for Developers

    Nov 2025 · docstron.com · its alternatives →

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    PDFBolt▲16

    Hi HN, I'm Michał. I posted PDFBolt here about a year ago as a basic HTML to PDF API. Since then I've been rebuilding it around the thing that kept bugging me: every time a designer tweaked a layout, it meant a code change, a deploy, and a prayer that nothing broke in production. I wanted templates that live on the server and version themselves, so my API calls stay the same when the layout changes. Try the editor, no sign-up. Open a sample report, change the data, and download a real PDF: https://pdfbolt.com/try Templates use Handlebars. Your API call sends a templateId +…

    2025 · pdfbolt.com · its alternatives →

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    PDFMergely – In-browser PDF tools that never upload your files▲18

    56 free PDF tools that run in your browser: merge, convert, compress, sign, OCR, plus on-device AI. Files never upload, a live meter proves it. Works offline.

    Jun 2026 · pdfmergely.com · its alternatives →

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    PDF Generator▲9

    Stop building PDF code. Generate PDFs with 3 lines of code.

    2025 · rapidapi.com · its alternatives →

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