HookPDF

What it does

Stop fighting with outdated PDF libraries or heavy headless browsers. HookPDF is a developer-first API that renders modern HTML/CSS into high-quality PDFs. Define your template, send your JSON data, and let us handle the scaling.

Send JSON data to HTML/CSS templates and generate pixel-perfect PDFs via REST API. Built for developers — dynamic data binding, async generation, and webhook delivery. Start free.

Build templates with HTML/CSS and hook into your data pipelines with a professional console interface. No drag-and-drop nonsense. Just code. curl -X POST "https://api.hookpdf.com/render" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <api_key>" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "template_id": " <template_id> ", "payload": { "key1": " text1 ", "key2": " text2 " } }' const response = await fetch ( 'https://api.hookpdf.com/render' , { method : 'POST' , headers : { 'Authorization' : 'Bearer <api_key>' , 'Content-Type' : 'application/json' }, body : JSON. stringify ({ template_id : '<template_id>' , payload : { key1 : 'text1' , key2 : 'text2' } }) }); import requests url =…from hookpdf.com

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