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⚠️ Caution!

Currently, this package is not catching up with docusaurus v2 HTML markup, so command may not find the correct HTML to loop through docs. Please modify the command to find correct HTML markup by yourself.

📌 Introduction

This is a PDF generator from document website such as docusaurus, vuepress, mkdocs.

⚡ Usage

For docusaurus v1

npx mr-pdf --initialDocURLs="https://v1.docusaurus.io/docs/en/installation" --paginationSelector=".docs-prevnext > a.docs-next" --excludeSelectors=".fixedHeaderContainer,footer.nav-footer,#docsNav,nav.onPageNav,a.edit-page-link,div.docs-prevnext" --cssStyle=".navPusher {padding-top: 0;}" --contentSelector="article"

🍗 CLI Options

Option	Required	Description
`--initialDocURLs`	Yes	set URL to start generating PDF from.
`--contentSelector`	Yes	used to find the part of main content
`--paginationSelector`	Yes	CSS Selector used to find next page to be printed for looping.
`--excludeURLs`	No	URLs to be excluded in PDF
`--excludeSelectors`	No	exclude selectors from PDF. Separate each selector with comma and no space. But you can use space in each selector. ex: `--excludeSelectors=".nav,.next > a"`
`--cssStyle`	No	CSS style to adjust PDF output ex: `--cssStyle="body{padding-top: 0;}"` *If you're project owner you can use `@media print { }` to edit CSS for PDF.
`--outputPDFFilename`	No	name of the output PDF file. Default is `mr-pdf.pdf`
`--pdfMargin`	No	set margin around PDF file. Separate each margin with comma and no space. ex: `--pdfMargin="10,20,30,40"`. This sets margin `top: 10px, right: 20px, bottom: 30px, left: 40px`
`--pdfFormat`	No	pdf format ex: `--pdfFormat="A3"`. Please check this link for available formats Puppeteer document
`--disableTOC`	No	Optional toggle to show the table of contents or not
`--coverTitle`	No	Title for the PDF cover.
`--coverImage`	No	`<src>` Image for PDF cover (does not support SVG)
`--coverSub`	No	Subtitle the for PDF cover. Add `<br/>` tags for multiple lines.
`--headerTemplate`	No	HTML template for the print header. Please check this link for details of injecting values Puppeteer document
`--footerTemplate`	No	HTML template for the print footer. Please check this link for details of injecting values Puppeteer document

🎨 Examples and Demo PDF

Docusaurus v1

https://docusaurus.io/en/

initialDocURLs: https://docusaurus.io/docs/en/installation

demoPDF: https://github.com/kohheepeace/mr-pdf/blob/master/v1-docusaurus.pdf

command:

npx mr-pdf --initialDocURLs="https://docusaurus.io/docs/en/installation" --paginationSelector=".docs-prevnext > a.docs-next" --excludeSelectors=".fixedHeaderContainer,footer.nav-footer,#docsNav,nav.onPageNav,a.edit-page-link,div.docs-prevnext" --cssStyle=".navPusher {padding-top: 0;}" --pdfMargin="20"

Docusaurus v2 beta

20210603060438

https://docusaurus.io/

initialDocURLs: https://docusaurus.io/docs

demoPDF: https://github.com/kohheepeace/mr-pdf/blob/master/v2-docusaurus.pdf

command:

npx mr-pdf --initialDocURLs="https://docusaurus.io/docs/" --contentSelector="article" --paginationSelector=".pagination-nav__item--next > a" --excludeSelectors=".margin-vert--xl a" --coverImage="https://docusaurus.io/img/docusaurus.png" --coverTitle="Docusaurus v2"

Vuepress v1

https://vuepress.vuejs.org/

initialDocURLs:

https://vuepress.vuejs.org/guide/

demoPDF: https://github.com/kohheepeace/mr-pdf/blob/master/v1-vuepress.pdf command:

npx mr-pdf --initialDocURLs="https://vuepress.vuejs.org/guide/" --contentSelector="main" --paginationSelector=".page-nav .next a" --excludeSelectors="header.navbar,aside.sidebar,footer.page-edit .edit-link,.global-ui,.page-nav" --coverImage="https://vuepress.vuejs.org/hero.png" --coverTitle="VuePress" --coverSub="Vue-powered Static Site Generator"

Vuepress v2 beta

https://v2.vuepress.vuejs.org/

initialDocURLs:

https://v2.vuepress.vuejs.org/guide/

demoPDF: https://github.com/kohheepeace/mr-pdf/blob/master/v2-vuepress.pdf command:

npx mr-pdf --initialDocURLs="https://v2.vuepress.vuejs.org/guide/" --contentSelector="main" --paginationSelector=".page-nav .next a" --excludeSelectors="header.navbar,aside.sidebar,footer.page-edit .edit-link,.global-ui,.page-nav" --coverImage="https://v2.vuepress.vuejs.org/images/hero.png" --coverTitle="VuePress" --coverSub="Vue-powered Static Site Generator"

Mkdocs

https://www.mkdocs.org/

initialDocURLs: https://www.mkdocs.org/

demoPDF: https://github.com/kohheepeace/mr-pdf/blob/master/mkdocs.pdf

command:

npx mr-pdf --initialDocURLs="https://www.mkdocs.org/" --paginationSelector="ul.navbar-nav li.nav-item a[rel~='next']" --excludeSelectors=".navbar.fixed-top,footer,.homepage .container .row .col-md-3,#toc-collapse" --cssStyle=".col-md-9 {flex: 0 0 100%; max-width: 100%;}"

Material for Mkdocs

https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/

initialDocURLs: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/getting-started/

demoPDF: https://github.com/kohheepeace/mr-pdf/blob/master/material-for-mkdocs.pdf command:

npx mr-pdf --initialDocURLs="https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/getting-started/" --paginationSelector="a.md-footer-nav__link--next" --excludeSelectors="header.md-header,.announce,nav.md-tabs,.md-main__inner .md-sidebar--primary,.md-main__inner .md-sidebar--secondary,footer" --cssStyle=".md-content {max-width: 100%!important;}"

PR to add new docs is welcome here... 😸

📄 How `mr-pdf` works

puppter can make html to PDF like you can print HTML page in chrome browser
so, the idea of mr-pdf is generating one big HTML through looping page link, then run page.pdf() from puppter to generate PDF.

mr-pdf-diagram