Show HN: CLI for generating beautiful PDF for offline reading

• web2pdf

  3 800 8.0 Python

  🔄 CLI to convert Webpages to PDFs 🚀

• pandoc

  420 32,396 9.8 Haskell

  Universal markup converter

Have you compared it with a conversion by pandoc (https://pandoc.org/)?

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• WKHTMLToPDF

  56 12,952 4.3 C++

  Discontinued Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)

  

• url2epub

  8 62 7.8 Go

  Create ePub files from URLs

Somewhat similarly, I wrote a web app to generate epub (instead of pdf) out of urls and send to eink reader(s) directly (via a telegram bot) so I can read them. Currently it supports sending epub by email (for kindle) or uploading epub to dropbox (for kobo, etc.). It originally also supports reMarkable cloud but we can no longer make reMarkable cloud actually work. There's also a REST api to generate epub to be downloaded directly: https://github.com/fishy/url2epub/blob/main/REST.md

For e-ink readers epubs are generally better than PDFs for urls anyways, as epubs are basically packed htmls, and also the flow text works better on smaller screens.

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