Gotenberg PHP
A PHP client for interacting with Gotenberg
This package is a PHP client for Gotenberg, a developer-friendly API to interact with powerful tools like Chromium and LibreOffice to convert many documents (HTML, Markdown, Word, Excel, etc.) to PDF, transform them, merge them, and more!
Quick Examples
You may convert a target URL to PDF and save it to a given directory:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
// Converts a target URL to PDF and saves it to a given directory.
$filename = Gotenberg::save(
Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)->url('https://my.url'),
$pathToSavingDirectory
);
You may also convert Office documents and merge them:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
// Converts Office documents to PDF and merges them.
$response = Gotenberg::send(
Gotenberg::libreOffice($apiUrl)
->merge()
->convert(
Stream::path($pathToDocx),
Stream::path($pathToXlsx)
)
);
Requirement
This packages requires Gotenberg, a Docker-powered stateless API for PDF files:
Installation
This package can be installed with Composer:
composer require gotenberg/gotenberg-php
We use PSR-7 HTTP message interfaces (i.e., RequestInterface
and ResponseInterface
) and the PSR-18 HTTP client interface (i.e., ClientInterface
).
For the latter, you may need an adapter in order to use your favorite client library. Check the available adapters:
If you're not sure which adapter you should use, consider using the php-http/guzzle7-adapter
:
composer require php-http/guzzle7-adapter
Usage
Send a request to the API
After having created the HTTP request (see below), you have two options:
- Get the response from the API and handle it according to your need.
- Save the resulting file to a given directory.
In the following examples, we assume the Gotenberg API is available at https://localhost:3000.
Get a response
You may use any HTTP client that is able to handle a PSR-7 RequestInterface
to call the API:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium('http://localhost:3000')
->url('https://my.url');
$response = $client->sendRequest($request);
If you have a PSR-18 compatible HTTP client (see Installation), you may also use Gotenberg::send
:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium('http://localhost:3000')
->url('https://my.url');
try {
$response = Gotenberg::send($request);
return $response;
} catch (GotenbergApiErroed $e) {
// $e->getResponse();
}
This helper will parse the response and if it is not 2xx, it will throw an exception. That's especially useful if you wish to return the response directly to the browser.
You may also explicitly set the HTTP client:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$response = Gotenberg::send($request, $client);
Save the resulting file
If you have a PSR-18 compatible HTTP client (see Installation), you may use Gotenberg::save
:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium('http://localhost:3000')
->url('https://my.url');
$filename = Gotenberg::save($request, '/path/to/saving/directory');
It returns the filename of the resulting file. By default, Gotenberg creates a UUID filename (i.e., 95cd9945-484f-4f89-8bdb-23dbdd0bdea9
) with either a .zip
or a .pdf
file extension.
You may also explicitly set the HTTP client:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$response = Gotenberg::save($request, $pathToSavingDirectory, $client);
Filename
You may override the output filename with:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium('http://localhost:3000')
->outputFilename('my_file')
->url('https://my.url');
Gotenberg will automatically add the correct file extension.
Trace or request ID
By default, Gotenberg creates a UUID trace that identifies a request in its logs. You may override its value thanks to:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium('http://localhost:3000')
->trace('debug')
->url('https://my.url');
It will set the header Gotenberg-Trace
with your value. You may also override the default header name:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium('http://localhost:3000')
->trace('debug', 'Request-Id')
->url('https://my.url');
Please note that it should be the same value as defined by the --api-trace-header
Gotenberg's property.
The response from Gotenberg will also contain the trace header. In case of error, both the Gotenberg::send
and Gotenberg::save
methods throw a GotenbergApiErroed
exception that provides the following method for retrieving the trace:
use Gotenberg\Exceptions\GotenbergApiErroed;
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
try {
$response = Gotenberg::send(
Gotenberg::chromium('http://localhost:3000')
->url('https://my.url')
);
} catch (GotenbergApiErroed $e) {
$trace = $e->getGotenbergTrace();
// Or if you override the header name:
$trace = $e->getGotenbergTrace('Request-Id');
}
Chromium
The Chromium module interacts with the Chromium browser to convert HTML documents to PDF.
Convert a target URL to PDF
See https://gotenberg.dev/docs/modules/chromium#url.
Converting a target URL to PDF is as simple as:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->url('https://my.url');
By default, Gotenberg auto-detects the following assets: .woff2
, .woff
, .ttf
, .css
and .js
.
It adds the corresponding HTML elements (i.e., link and script) inside the DOM of the target URL, using the alphabetical order according to the filenames.
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->assets(
Stream::path('/path/to/my.css'),
Stream::path('/path/to/my.js')
)
->url('https://my.url');
You may override this behavior thanks to the $extraLinkTags
and $extraScriptTags
arguments:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Modules\ChromiumExtraLinkTag;
use Gotenberg\Modules\ChromiumExtraScriptTag;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->url(
'https://my.url',
[
ChromiumExtraLinkTag::url('https://my.css'),
ChromiumExtraLinkTag::stream(Stream::path('/path/to/my.css')),
],
[
ChromiumExtraScriptTag::url('https://my.js'),
ChromiumExtraScriptTag::stream(Stream::path('/path/to/my.js')),
]
);
Please note that Gotenberg will add the <link>
and <script>
elements based on the order of the arguments.
Convert an HTML document to PDF
See https://gotenberg.dev/docs/modules/chromium#html.
You may convert an HTML document with:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->html(Stream::path('/path/to/file.html'));
Or with an HTML string:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->html(Stream::string('my.html', $someHtml);
Please note that it automatically sets the filename to index.html
, as required by Gotenberg, whatever the value you're using with the Stream
class.
You may also send additional files, like images, fonts, stylesheets, and so on. The only requirement is that their paths in the HTML DOM are on the root level.
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->assets(
Stream::path('/path/to/my.css'),
Stream::path('/path/to/my.js')
)
->html(Stream::path('/path/to/file.html'));
Convert one or more markdown files to PDF
See https://gotenberg.dev/docs/modules/chromium#markdown.
You may convert markdown files with:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->markdown(
Stream::path('/path/to/my_wrapper.html'),
Stream::path('/path/to/file.md')
);
The first argument is a Stream
with HTML content, for instance:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>My PDF</title>
</head>
<body>
{{ toHTML "file.md" }}
</body>
</html>
Here, there is a Go template function toHTML
. Gotenberg will use it to convert a markdown file's content to HTML.
Like the HTML conversion, you may also send additional files, like images, fonts, stylesheets, and so on. The only requirement is that their paths in the HTML DOM are on the root level.
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->assets(
Stream::path('/path/to/my.css'),
Stream::path('/path/to/my.js')
)
->markdown(
Stream::path('/path/to/file.html'),
Stream::path('/path/to/my.md')
Stream::path('/path/to/my2.md')
);
Paper size
You may override the default paper size with:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->paperSize($width, $height)
->url('https://my.url');
Examples of paper size (width x height, in inches):
Letter
- 8.5 x 11 (default)Legal
- 8.5 x 14Tabloid
- 11 x 17Ledger
- 17 x 11A0
- 33.1 x 46.8A1
- 23.4 x 33.1A2
- 16.54 x 23.4A3
- 11.7 x 16.54A4
- 8.27 x 11.7A5
- 5.83 x 8.27A6
- 4.13 x 5.83
Margins
You may override the default margins (i.e., 0.39
, in inches):
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->margins($top, $bottom, $left, $right)
->url('https://my.url');
Prefer CSS page size
You may force page size as defined by CSS:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->preferCssPageSize()
->url('https://my.url');
Print the background graphics
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->printBackground()
->url('https://my.url');
Landscape orientation
You may override the default portrait orientation with:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->landscape()
->url('https://my.url');
Scale
You may override the default scale of the page rendering (i.e., 1.0
) with:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->scale(2.0)
->url('https://my.url');
Page ranges
You may set the page ranges to print, e.g., 1-5, 8, 11-13
. Empty means all pages.
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->nativePageRanges('1-2')
->url('https://my.url');
Header and footer
You may add a header and/or a footer to each page of the PDF:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->header(Stream::path('/path/to/my_header.html'))
->footer(Stream::path('/path/to/my_footer.html'))
->margins(1, 1, 0.39, 0.39)
->url('https://my.url');
Please note that it automatically sets the filenames to header.html
and footer.html
, as required by Gotenberg, whatever the value you're using with the Stream
class.
Each of them has to be a complete HTML document:
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {
font-size: 8rem;
margin: 4rem auto;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p><span class="pageNumber"></span> of <span class="totalPages"></span></p>
</body>
</html>
The following classes allow you to inject printing values:
date
- formatted print date.title
- document title.url
- document location.pageNumber
- current page number.totalPages
- total pages in the document.
- Margins top and bottom are large enough (i.e.,
->margins(1, 1, 0.39, 0.39)
) - The font size is big enough.
- No JavaScript.
- The CSS properties are independent of the ones from the HTML document.
- The footer CSS properties override the ones from the header;
- Only fonts installed in the Docker image are loaded - see the Fonts chapter.
- Images only work using a base64 encoded source - i.e.,
data:image/png;base64, iVBORw0K....
background-color
and colorCSS
properties require an additional-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact
CSS property in order to work.- Assets are not loaded (i.e., CSS files, scripts, fonts, etc.).
Wait delay
When the page relies on JavaScript for rendering, and you don't have access to the page's code, you may want to wait a certain amount of time (i.e., 1s
, 2ms
, etc.) to make sure Chromium has fully rendered the page you're trying to generate.
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->waitDelay('3s')
->url('https://my.url');
Wait for expression
You may also wait until a given JavaScript expression returns true:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->waitForExpression("window.status === 'ready'")
->url('https://my.url');
User agent
You may override the default User-Agent
header used by Gotenberg:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->userAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 11_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/604.1.38 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0 Mobile/15A372 Safari/604.1")
->url('https://my.url');
Extra HTTP headers
You may add HTTP headers that Chromium will send when loading the HTML document:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->extraHttpHeaders([
'My-Header-1' => 'My value',
'My-Header-2' => 'My value'
])
->url('https://my.url');
Fail on console exceptions
You may force Gotenberg to return a 409 Conflict
response if there are exceptions in the Chromium console:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->failOnConsoleExceptions()
->url('https://my.url');
Emulate media type
Some websites have dedicated CSS rules for print. Using screen
allows you to force the "standard" CSS rules:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->emulateScreenMediaType()
->url('https://my.url');
You may also force the print
media type with:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->emulatePrintMediaType()
->url('https://my.url');
PDF Format
See https://gotenberg.dev/docs/modules/pdf-engines#engines.
You may set the PDF format of the resulting PDF with:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->pdfFormat('PDF/A-1a')
->url('https://my.url');
LibreOffice
The LibreOffice module interacts with LibreOffice to convert documents to PDF, thanks to unoconv.
Convert documents to PDF
See https://gotenberg.dev/docs/modules/libreoffice#route.
Converting a document to PDF is as simple as:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::libreOffice($apiUrl)
->convert(Stream::path('/path/to/my.docx'));
If you send many documents, Gotenberg will return a ZIP archive with the PDFs:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::libreOffice($apiUrl)
->outputFilename('archive')
->convert(
Stream::path('/path/to/my.docx'),
Stream::path('/path/to/my.xlsx')
);
// $filename = archive.zip
$filename = Gotenberg::save($request, $pathToSavingDirectory);
You may also merge them into one unique PDF:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::libreOffice($apiUrl)
->merge()
->outputFilename('merged')
->convert(
Stream::path('/path/to/my.docx'),
Stream::path('/path/to/my.xlsx')
);
// $filename = merged.pdf
$filename = Gotenberg::save($request, $pathToSavingDirectory);
Please note that the merging order is determined by the order of the arguments.
Landscape orientation
You may override the default portrait orientation with:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::libreOffice($apiUrl)
->landscape()
->convert(Stream::path('/path/to/my.docx'));
Page ranges
You may set the page ranges to print, e.g., 1-4
. Empty means all pages.
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::libreOffice($apiUrl)
->nativePageRanges('1-2')
->convert(Stream::path('/path/to/my.docx'));
PDF format
See https://gotenberg.dev/docs/modules/pdf-engines#engines.
You may set the PDF format of the resulting PDF(s) with:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::libreOffice($apiUrl)
->pdfFormat('PDF/A-1a')
->convert(Stream::path('/path/to/my.docx'));
You may also explicitly tell Gotenberg to use unoconv to convert the resulting PDF(s) to the PDF/A-1a
format:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::libreOffice($apiUrl)
->nativePdfA1aFormat()
->convert(Stream::path('/path/to/my.docx'));
400 Bad Request
response.
PDF Engines
The PDF Engines module gathers all engines that can manipulate PDF files.
Merge PDFs
See https://gotenberg.dev/docs/modules/pdf-engines#merge.
Merging PDFs is as simple as:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::pdfEngines($apiUrl)
->merge(
Stream::path('/path/to/my.pdf'),
Stream::path('/path/to/my2.pdf')
);
Please note that the merging order is determined by the order of the arguments.
You may also set the PDF format of the resulting PDF(s) with:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::pdfEngines($apiUrl)
->pdfFormat('PDF/A-1a')
->merge(
Stream::path('/path/to/my.pdf'),
Stream::path('/path/to/my2.pdf'),
Stream::path('/path/to/my3.pdf')
);
Convert to a specific PDF format
See https://gotenberg.dev/docs/modules/pdf-engines#convert.
You may convert a PDF to a specific PDF format with:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::pdfEngines($apiUrl)
->convert(
'PDF/A-1a'
Stream::path('/path/to/my.pdf')
);
If you send many PDFs, Gotenberg will return a ZIP archive with the PDFs:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
use Gotenberg\Stream;
$request = Gotenberg::pdfEngines($apiUrl)
->outputFilename('archive')
->convert(
'PDF/A-1a',
Stream::path('/path/to/my.pdf'),
Stream::path('/path/to/my2.pdf'),
Stream::path('/path/to/my3.pdf')
);
// $filename = archive.zip
$filename = Gotenberg::save($request, $pathToSavingDirectory);
Webhook
The Webhook module is a Gotenberg middleware that sends the API responses to callbacks.
Gotenberg::save
method if you're using the webhook feature.
For instance:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->webhook('https://my.webhook.url', 'https://my.webhook.error.url')
->url('https://my.url');
You may also override the default HTTP method (POST
) that Gotenberg will use to call the webhooks:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->webhook('https://my.webhook.url', 'https://my.webhook.error.url')
->webhookMethod('PATCH')
->webhookErrorMethod('PUT')
->url('https://my.url');
You may also tell Gotenberg to add extra HTTP headers that it will send alongside the request to the webhooks:
use Gotenberg\Gotenberg;
$request = Gotenberg::chromium($apiUrl)
->webhook('https://my.webhook.url', 'https://my.webhook.error.url')
->webhookExtraHttpHeaders([
'My-Header-1' => 'My value',
'My-Header-2' => 'My value'
])
->url('https://my.url');