https://github.com/fuergaosi233/gitbook2pdf

Grab the contents of the gitbook document and convert it to pdf
https://github.com/fuergaosi233/gitbook2pdf

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Grab the contents of the gitbook document and convert it to pdf

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fuergaosi233/gitbook2pdf
• Owner: fuergaosi233
• Archived: true
• Created: 2019-03-03T14:03:03.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-08-06T15:03:33.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-01-16T11:43:03.464Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 4.16 MB
• Stars: 1,009
• Watchers: 19
• Forks: 165
• Open Issues: 33
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
Welcome to Gitbook2pdf 👋




  

    

  



> Simple but powerful tools for converting gitbook pages to pdf.

### 🏠 [Homepage](https://github.com/fuergaosi233/gitbook2pdf)

[![Python 3.6](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.6-blue.svg)](https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-360/)

[English](./README.md) [中文](./README_zh.md)

## Feature

- Asynchronous grab

  Use `aiohttp` to grab

  Can be in a few seconds the data capture.

- Grab the text can be replicated

  ![](./screenshots/copy-feature.png)

- Save the original directory structure

  ![](./screenshots/index.png)

- Retain the original hyperlinks

![](./screenshots/link-feature.png)

- Completely retained the original format（Use js rendered unable to retain🤷‍♂️

- Smaller storage space, 800 pages of PDF file is only 4.6 MB

### Sample files

[KubernetesHandbook.pdf](http://cdn2.xhyuan.co/KubernetesHandbook.pdf)

## Install

### Notice!

**Because it need to use weasyprint for pdf generation but pip can't complete weasyprint installation, so you need to install it manually.**

it's weasyprint [install tutorial](https://weasyprint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html#linux)

If you don't want install install dependencies you can use made of su Yang [docker image](https://github.com/soulteary/docker-gitbook-pdf-generator)

```sh

pip install -r requirements.txt

```

## Usage

```sh

python gitbook.py {url}

```

## Run tests

```sh

python gitbook.py http://self-publishing.ebookchain.org

```

## Custom

Results generated by the CSS to define if you want to add other styles can modify `gitbook.css`.

## Author

👤 **fuergaosi233**

- Twitter: [@fuergaosi](https://twitter.com/fuergaosi)

  👤 **LiaoChangjiang**

## 🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!
Feel free to check [issues page](https://github.com/fuergaosi233/gitbook2pdf/issues).

## Show your support

Give a ⭐️ if this project helped you!

## warning⚠️

Using `weasyprint` to generate pdf files will compare eating memory

Please pay attention to whether your own memory is enough