pdf

Type: <boolean>
Default: false

It generates a PDF over the target url.

CLI
JavaScript
Shell
Python
Ruby

const mql = require('@microlink/mql')

const { status, data } = await mql('https://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-applications', { pdf: true })

mql.render(data)

When it's enabled, a new pdf data field will be part of the response payload.


{
  "data": {
    "title": "7 Principles of Rich Web Applications",
    "description": "November 4, 2014",
    "lang": "en",
    "author": null,
    "publisher": "rauchg.com",
    "image": null,
    "url": "https://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-applications",
    "date": "2019-11-27T18:34:47.000Z",
    "logo": {
      "url": "https://logo.clearbit.com/rauchg.com",
      "type": "png",
      "size": 17675,
      "height": 128,
      "width": 128,
      "size_pretty": "17.7 kB"
    },
    "pdf": {
      "size_pretty": "1.36 MB",
      "size": 1357350,
      "type": "pdf",
      "url": "https://microlink.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/vIQctxsDTujq0b_f8AnldH7YMYs_"
    }
  },
  "status": "success"
}

You can configure different specific options, such as scale or margin:

CLI
JavaScript
Shell
Python
Ruby

const mql = require('@microlink/mql')

const { status, data } = await mql('https://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-applications', { pdf: true, scale: 1, margin: '0.4cm' })

mql.render(data)

Also, combine it with embed for inserting it as HTML markup and refresh it asynchronously in the background (known as stale).


<a
  href="https://api.microlink.io/?url=https://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-applications&pdf&embed=pdf.url&scale=1&margin=0.4cm"
  download="How-to-download-file.pdf"
>
  <button>Download File</button>
</a>

When you generate a PDF, the default mediaType is 'print'.