HTML to PDF API

curl -X POST https://www.cheap-pdf.com/generate-pdf-public \
  -F "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -F "filename=hello.pdf" \
  -F "width=800" \
  -F "height=1000" \
  --form-string "fileorhtmlorurl=<h1>Hello from CheapPDF</h1>" \
  -o response.json

# The PDF is returned base64-encoded inside the JSON:
jq -r '.data.base64_pdf' response.json | base64 --decode > hello.pdf

<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://www.cheap-pdf.com/generate-pdf-public');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_POST           => true,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 60,
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS     => [
        'apikey'          => getenv('CHEAPPDF_API_KEY'),
        'filename'        => 'hello.pdf',
        'width'           => 800,
        'height'          => 1000,
        'fileorhtmlorurl' => '<h1>Hello from CheapPDF</h1>',
    ],
]);
$body   = curl_exec($ch);
$status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE);
curl_close($ch);

$result = json_decode($body, true);
if ($status !== 200 || empty($result['success'])) {
    throw new RuntimeException($result['message'] ?? "Conversion failed (HTTP $status)");
}
file_put_contents('hello.pdf', base64_decode($result['data']['base64_pdf']));

import base64, os, requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://www.cheap-pdf.com/generate-pdf-public",
    data={
        "apikey": os.environ["CHEAPPDF_API_KEY"],
        "filename": "hello.pdf",
        "width": 800,
        "height": 1000,
        "fileorhtmlorurl": "<h1>Hello from CheapPDF</h1>",
    },
    timeout=60,
)
result = resp.json()
if resp.status_code != 200 or not result.get("success"):
    raise RuntimeError(result.get("message", f"Conversion failed (HTTP {resp.status_code})"))

with open("hello.pdf", "wb") as f:
    f.write(base64.b64decode(result["data"]["base64_pdf"]))

// Node.js 18+ (built-in fetch and FormData)
import { writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";

const form = new FormData();
form.append("apikey", process.env.CHEAPPDF_API_KEY);
form.append("filename", "hello.pdf");
form.append("width", "800");
form.append("height", "1000");
form.append("fileorhtmlorurl", "<h1>Hello from CheapPDF</h1>");

const res = await fetch("https://www.cheap-pdf.com/generate-pdf-public", {
  method: "POST",
  body: form,
  signal: AbortSignal.timeout(60_000),
});
const result = await res.json();
if (!res.ok || !result.success) {
  throw new Error(result.message ?? `Conversion failed (HTTP ${res.status})`);
}
await writeFile("hello.pdf", Buffer.from(result.data.base64_pdf, "base64"));