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Is there any way to convert a web page and its sub pages into one PDF file?

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Save a list of Web pages as PDF file

  • First install wkhtmltopdf conversion tool (this tool requires desktop environment; source):

    sudo apt install wkhtmltopdf

  • Then create a file that contains a list of URLs of multiple target web pages (each on new line). Let's call this file url-list.txt and let's place it in ~/Downloads/PDF/. For example its content could be:

    https://askubuntu.com/users/721082/tarek
https://askubuntu.com/users/566421/pa4080

  • And then run the next command, that will generate a PDF file for each site URL, located into the directory where the command is executed:

    while read i; do wkhtmltopdf "$i" "$(echo "$i" | sed -e 's/https\?:\/\///' -e 's/\//-/g' ).pdf"; done < ~/Downloads/PDF/url-list.txt

    The result of this command - executed within the directory ~/Downloads/PDF/ - is:

    ~/Downloads/PDF/$ ls -1 *.pdf
askubuntu.com-users-566421-pa4080.pdf
askubuntu.com-users-721082-tarek.pdf

  • Merge the output files by the next command, executed in the above directory (source):

    gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -sOutputFile=merged-output.pdf $(ls -1 *.pdf)

    The result is:

    ~/Downloads/PDF/$ ls -1 *.pdf
askubuntu.com-users-566421-pa4080.pdf
askubuntu.com-users-721082-tarek.pdf
merged-output.pdf

Save an entire Website as PDF file

  • First we must create a file (url-list.txt) that contains URL map of the site. Run these commands (source):

    TARGET_SITE="https://www.yahoo.com/"
wget --spider --force-html -r -l2 "$TARGET_SITE" 2>&1 | grep '^--' | awk '{ print $3 }' | grep -v '\.\(css\|js\|png\|gif\|jpg\)$' > url-list.txt

  • Then we need go through the steps from the above section.

Create a script that will Save an entire Website as PDF file (recursively)

  • To automate the process we can bring all together in a script file.

  • Create an executable file, called site-to-pdf.sh:

    mkdir -p ~/Downloads/PDF/
touch ~/Downloads/PDF/site-to-pdf.sh
chmod +x ~/Downloads/PDF/site-to-pdf.sh
nano ~/Downloads/PDF/site-to-pdf.sh

  • The script content is:

    #!/bin/sh
TARGET_SITE="$1"
wget --spider --force-html -r -l2 "$TARGET_SITE" 2>&1 | grep '^--' | awk '{ print $3 }' | grep -v '\.\(css\|js\|png\|gif\|jpg\|txt\)$' > url-list.txt
while read i; do wkhtmltopdf "$i" "$(echo "$i" | sed -e 's/https\?:\/\///' -e 's/\//-/g' ).pdf"; done < url-list.txt
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -sOutputFile=merged-output.pdf $(ls -1 *.pdf)

    Copy the above content and in nano use: Shift+Insert for paste; Ctrl+O and Enter for save; Ctrl+X for exit.

  • Usage:

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The answer to the original question:

Convert multiple PHP files to one PDF (recursively)

  • First install the package enscript, which is a 'regular file to pdf' conversion tool:

    sudo apt update && sudo apt install enscript

  • Then run the next command, that will generate file called output.pdf, located into directory where the command is executed, which will contains the content of all php files within /path/to/folder/ and its sub-directories:

    find /path/to/folder/ -type f -name '*.php' -exec printf "\n\n{}\n\n" \; -exec cat "{}" \; | enscript -o - | ps2pdf - output.pdf

  • Example, from my system, that generated this file:

    find /var/www/wordpress/ -type f -name '*.php' -exec printf "\n\n{}\n\n" \; -exec cat "{}" \; | enscript -o - | ps2pdf - output.pdf
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