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wkhtmltopdf support

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Hey, When i was trying to install pdfkit through pip, it gave error of

No wkhtmltopdf executable found: "" If this file exists please check that this process can read it.

So can’t i just use it using pip?

More, i installed the wkhtmltopdf using apt-get, but using pdfkit in celery to run multiple asyncronus tasks, it gives error of QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display I got that it is not getting xvfb display windows available in server, so any solution which I can solve into python level itself ?

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Created 7 years ago
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jakewinscommented, Jun 1, 2017

For future travelers, the solution recommended by Debian now is to use xvfb. We wrote a subclass of the PDFKit class to achieve that:

import pdfkit

class HeadlessPdfKit(pdfkit.PDFKit):
    def command(self, path=None):
        return ['xvfb-run', '--'] + super().command(path)

pdf = HeadlessPdfKit("<html></html>", 'string').to_pdf(False)

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mrshucommented, Mar 27, 2018

For anyone who would appreciate @jakewins’ wrapper as a full fledged package, I’ve put it together here: https://pypi.org/project/headless-pdfkit/

Enjoy!