Batch-Export Webpages to PDF with Python
Level: Real-World
Project Brief
Have a look at the following Python script. The script exports the webpage of a given URL to a PDF file.
import pdfkit
# Define the URL and the output file path
url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant'
output_file = 'output.pdf'
# Convert the URL to a PDF
pdfkit.from_url(url, output_file)
print(f'Webpage saved as PDF: {output_file}')Your task for today’s project to improve the above program by enabling it to convert multiple webpages to PDF. Specifically, your new program should:
Read multiple URLs from a text file. Here is a sample text file.
Save the webpage of each URL into a separate PDF file.
Name the PDF files according to the URL. For example, https___en_wikipedia_org_wiki_Elephant.pdf