I am trying to generate a PDF of a webpage from a https website (Salesforce). I have so far tried using simple_salesforce, which returns a sessionID (cookie) to no avail.
from simple_salesforce import Salesforce
import pdfkit
sf = Salesforce(username='my username'
,password='my password'
,security_token= 'my API security token')
path_wkthmltopdf = r'C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe'
config = pdfkit.configuration(wkhtmltopdf=bytes(path_wkthmltopdf, 'utf8'))
options1 = {
'page-size': None,
'margin-top': None,
'margin-right': None,
'margin-bottom': None,
'margin-left': None,
'encoding': None,
'custom-header' : None,
'cookie': sf.session_id,
'no-outline': None
}
pdfkit.from_url('https://thiess.my.salesforce.com/0069000000IZH71','out.pdf',
configuration=config, options=options1)
Anyone knows what's the best way to pass a cookie argument into pdfkit?
Check this :) You probably need requests, if you don't have. I don't know much about the salesforce library.
import requests
import pdfkit
session = requests.session()
def download(session,username,password):
session.get('https://bneadf.thiess.com.au/adfs/ls/')
ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36'
session.headers = {'User-Agent': self.ua}
payload = {'UserName':username,
'Password':password,
'AuthMethod':'FormsAuthentication'}
session.post('https://bneadf.thiess.com.au/adfs/ls/', data = payload, headers = session.headers)
my_html = session.get('https://thiess.my.salesforce.com/0069000000IZH71')
my_pdf = open('myfile.html','wb+')
my_pdf.write(my_html.content)
my_pdf.close()
path_wkthmltopdf = 'C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe'
config = pdfkit.configuration(wkhtmltopdf=bytes(path_wkthmltopdf, 'utf8'))
pdfkit.from_file('myfile.html', 'out.pdf')
download(session,"yourusername","yourpass")