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Introduction
In this tutorial, we will learn how to convert any HTML page to an image using Python and imgkit. imgkit is a Python library that allows you to convert HTML to PNG, or JPG images. It uses the wkhtmltopdf library to render the HTML to a PDF, and then converts the PDF to an image using the ImageMagick library.
Installing the imgkit library
pip install imgkit
Install wkhtmltopdf
Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf
Warning! Version in debian/ubuntu repos have reduced functionality (because it compiled without the wkhtmltopdf QT patches), such as adding outlines, headers, footers, TOC etc. To use this options you should install static binary from wkhtmltopdf site or you can use this script.
MacOSX:
brew install --cask wkhtmltopdf
Windows and other options:
Go to : https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
click on Download a precompiled binary
Choose what is right for your computer
install wkhtmltopdf
You can add wkhtmltopdf to the system environment path, but I want to make it as easy as possible.
If you want to add wkhtmltopdf to the system environment path:
https://www.architectryan.com/2018/03/17/add-to-the-path-on-windows-10/
Convert HTML file to Image from file
import imgkit
path_wkthmltoimage = r'C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltoimage.exe'
config = imgkit.config(wkhtmltoimage=path_wkthmltoimage)
imgkit.from_file('index.html', 'out.jpg', config = config)
result
Convert page from url to Image from file
import imgkit
path_wkthmltoimage = r'C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltoimage.exe'
config = imgkit.config(wkhtmltoimage=path_wkthmltoimage)
imgkit.from_url('https://pypi.org/', 'out.jpg', config = config)
result
Conclusion
In this tutorial, we learned how to convert any HTML page to an image using Python and imgkit. imgkit is a powerful tool that can be used to create images from HTML pages.
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