how to save opened page as pdf in Selenium (Python)

Question

Have tried all the solutions I could find on the Internet to be able to print a page that is open in Selenium in Python. However, while the print pop-up shows up, after a second or two it goes away, with no PDF saved.

Here is the code being tried. Based on the code here - https://stackoverflow.com/a/43752129/3973491

Coding on a Mac with Mojave 10.14.5.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.common.exceptions import WebDriverException
import time
import json

options = Options()
appState = {
    "recentDestinations": [
        {
            "id": "Save as PDF",
            "origin": "local"
        }
    ],
    "selectedDestinationId": "Save as PDF",
    "version": 2
}

profile = {'printing.print_preview_sticky_settings.appState': json.dumps(appState)}
# profile = {'printing.print_preview_sticky_settings.appState':json.dumps(appState),'savefile.default_directory':downloadPath}
options.add_experimental_option('prefs', profile)
options.add_argument('--kiosk-printing')
CHROMEDRIVER_PATH = '/usr/local/bin/chromedriver'

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path=CHROMEDRIVER_PATH)
driver.implicitly_wait(5)
driver.get(url)
driver.execute_script('window.print();')

$chromedriver --v
ChromeDriver 75.0.3770.90 (a6dcaf7e3ec6f70a194cc25e8149475c6590e025-refs/branch-heads/3770@{#1003})

Any hints or solutions as to what can be done to print the open html page to a PDF. Have spent hours trying to make this work. Thank you!

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Update on 2019-07-11:

My question has been identified as a duplicate, but a) the other question seems to be using javascript code, and b) the answer does not solve the problem being raised in this question - it may be to do with more recent software versions. Chrome version being used is Version 75.0.3770.100 (Official Build) (64-bit), and chromedriver is ChromeDriver 75.0.3770.90. On Mac OS Mojave. Script is running on Python 3.7.3.

Update on 2019-07-11:

Changed the code to

from selenium import webdriver
import json

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
settings = {
    "appState": {
        "recentDestinations": [{
            "id": "Save as PDF",
            "origin": "local",
            "account": "",
        }],
        "selectedDestinationId": "Save as PDF",
        "version": 2
    }
}
prefs = {'printing.print_preview_sticky_settings': json.dumps(settings)}
chrome_options.add_experimental_option('prefs', prefs)
chrome_options.add_argument('--kiosk-printing')
CHROMEDRIVER_PATH = '/usr/local/bin/chromedriver'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options, executable_path=CHROMEDRIVER_PATH)
driver.get("https://google.com")
driver.execute_script('window.print();')
driver.quit()

And now, nothing happens. Chrome launches, loads url, print dialog appears but then nothing seems to happen - nothing in the default printer queue, and no pdf either - I even searched for the PDF files by looking up "Recent Files" on Mac.

Solution 1

The answer here, worked when I did not have any other printer setup in my OS. But when I had another default printer, this did not work.

I don't understand how, but making small change this way seems to work.

from selenium import webdriver
import json

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
settings = {
       "recentDestinations": [{
            "id": "Save as PDF",
            "origin": "local",
            "account": "",
        }],
        "selectedDestinationId": "Save as PDF",
        "version": 2
    }
prefs = {'printing.print_preview_sticky_settings.appState': json.dumps(settings)}
chrome_options.add_experimental_option('prefs', prefs)
chrome_options.add_argument('--kiosk-printing')
CHROMEDRIVER_PATH = '/usr/local/bin/chromedriver'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options, executable_path=CHROMEDRIVER_PATH)
driver.get("https://google.com")
driver.execute_script('window.print();')
driver.quit()

Solution 2

You can use the following code to print PDFs in A5 size with background css enabled:

import os
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import json
import time

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()

settings = {
    "recentDestinations": [{
        "id": "Save as PDF",
        "origin": "local",
        "account": ""
    }],
    "selectedDestinationId": "Save as PDF",
    "version": 2,
    "isHeaderFooterEnabled": False,
    "mediaSize": {
        "height_microns": 210000,
        "name": "ISO_A5",
        "width_microns": 148000,
        "custom_display_name": "A5"
    },
    "customMargins": {},
    "marginsType": 2,
    "scaling": 175,
    "scalingType": 3,
    "scalingTypePdf": 3,
    "isCssBackgroundEnabled": True
}

mobile_emulation = { "deviceName": "Nexus 5" }
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("mobileEmulation", mobile_emulation)
chrome_options.add_argument('--enable-print-browser')
#chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')

prefs = {
    'printing.print_preview_sticky_settings.appState': json.dumps(settings),
    'savefile.default_directory': '<path>'
}
chrome_options.add_argument('--kiosk-printing')
chrome_options.add_experimental_option('prefs', prefs)

for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('<source path>'):
    for fileName in filenames:
        print(fileName)
        driver = webdriver.Chrome("./chromedriver", options=chrome_options)
        driver.get(f'file://{os.path.join(dirpath, fileName)}')
        time.sleep(7)
        driver.execute_script('window.print();')
        driver.close()

Solution 3

The solution is not very good, but you can take a screenshot and convert to pdf by Pillow...

from selenium import webdriver
from io import BytesIO
from PIL import Image

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='path to your driver')
driver.get('your url here')
img = Image.open(BytesIO(driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').screenshot_as_png))
img.save('filename.pdf', "PDF", quality=100)

Solution 4

Here is the solution I use with Windows :

• First download the ChromeDriver here : http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads and install Selenium

• Then run this code (based on the accepted answer, slightly modified to work on Windows):

  import json
  from selenium import webdriver
  chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
  settings = {"recentDestinations": [{"id": "Save as PDF", "origin": "local", "account": ""}], "selectedDestinationId": "Save as PDF", "version": 2}
  prefs = {'printing.print_preview_sticky_settings.appState': json.dumps(settings)}
  chrome_options.add_experimental_option('prefs', prefs)
  chrome_options.add_argument('--kiosk-printing')
  browser = webdriver.Chrome(r"chromedriver.exe", options=chrome_options)
  browser.get("https://google.com/")
  browser.execute_script('window.print();')
  browser.close()    
  

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