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API2PDF

Company blog · api2pdf.comprogrammingwebbusiness

API2PDF is the company blog at api2pdf.com, writing about programming, web and business. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Show HN: Api2Pdf, an API for Converting HTML, URLs, and Office Docs to PDF”. It has a working feed you can follow.

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6mentions?
4HN people?
2018–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2018

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as a PDF-generation API service that converts content using engines such as headless Chrome, wkhtmltopdf and LibreOffice, with usage-based pricing described in the comments.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Generate PDFs from HTML, URLs, Markdown and Office files, merge and watermark PDFs, and create barcodes with one serverless REST API. $1/month, pay as you go.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Show HN: Api2Pdf, an API for Converting HTML, URLs, and Office Docs to PDF
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. adnans · 2024-03-11
    We use https://www.api2pdf.com/pricing/ and it's priced per bandwidth and usage - ($.001 per mb bandwidth and $0.00019551 per second of computation) You can choose which API to use: Headless Chrome, Wkhtmltopdf, Libreoffice, etc.

    Comment linking /pricing/

    on “Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs”
  2. apexdodge · 2018-06-25

    Submitted Show HN: Api2Pdf, an API for Converting HTML, URLs, and Office Docs to PDF as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  3. psandersen · 2020-10-05
    I'd be keen for a service that made a nice pdf for reading on an e-reader, but a physical book just feels wasteful. Exploring a pocket to pdf to kindle pipeline is on my todolist using either https://www.printfriendly.com or https://www.api2pdf.com If anyone has done something similar would love to some feedback.

    Comment linking /

    on “Show HN: Turn your “read later” folder into a physical book”
  4. njrc9 · 2024-04-21

    Submitted Api2Pdf: PDF Generation, Powered by Serverless as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. apexdodge · 2019-05-11

    Submitted Tackling Tech and Business Challenges with Azure Table Storage and Data Lake as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. apexdodge · 2018-11-02

    Submitted A Debugging Story: Thought process for when you encounter the most bizarre bugs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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