Streamlit-html2pdf

Streamlit test project for html2pdf conversion

Status

WORK IN PROGRESS - NOT FINISHED - DO NOT USE YET

Last changes: 06.05.2021

ToDo

• Update Docker toolchain
• Update example project
• Test it in Docker environment
• Test it in Streamlit sharing
• Try other libraries
• Add markdown to pdf conversion

Resources

Some links to articles and different libraries for html2pdf conversion in Python.

• wkhtmltopdf -> https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
• weasyprint -> https://weasyprint.org/
• xhtml2pdf -> https://github.com/xhtml2pdf/xhtml2pdf
• https://gearheart.io/blog/how-generate-pdf-files-python-xhtml2pdf-weasyprint-or-unoconv/
• https://elements.heroku.com/buildpacks/jazzcore/python-pdfkit
• https://github.com/JazzCore/python-pdfkit

More Resources for Markdown to PDF conversion

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4135344/is-there-any-direct-way-to-generate-pdf-from-markdown-file-by-python
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54745389/problem-generating-markdown-file-from-python
• mdpdf
  • https://github.com/normanlorrain/mdpdf
  • https://pypi.org/project/mdpdf/
• md2pdf.py https://github.com/ljpengelen/markdown-to-pdf
• md2pdf https://github.com/jmaupetit/md2pdf
• markdown2pdf https://github.com/kxxoling/markdown2pdf
• pdfkit https://pypi.org/project/pdfkit/
• markdown
  • https://pypi.org/project/Markdown/
  • https://github.com/Python-Markdown/markdown

Docker Runtime

The provided Dockerfile tries to mimic the Streamlit Sharing runtime.

Pulling the base image from Docker Hub

docker pull python:3.7.10-slim

Run and shell into base python container

docker run -it --name py3710slim python:3.7.10-slim /bin/bash
docker run -ti --rm python:3.7.10-slim /bin/bash

Build local custom Docker Image from Dockerfile

docker build -t html2pdf:latest .
docker run -ti --name selenium --rm html2pdf:latest /bin/bash

Run custom Docker Container

docker run -ti -p 8501:8501 --rm html2pdf:latest
docker run -ti -p 8501:8501 -v $(pwd):/app --rm html2pdf:latest  # linux
docker run -ti -p 8501:8501 -v ${pwd}:/app --rm html2pdf:latest  # powershell
docker run -ti -p 8501:8501 -v %cd%:/app --rm html2pdf:latest  # cmd.exe

Open the local Streamlit application

http://localhost:8501 for the local or dockerized application