Generate a PDF from Any URL in Node.js — No Puppeteer, No Headless Browser

Generating PDFs from web pages is one of those tasks that looks simple until you're knee-deep in Puppeteer configuration. You install the package. You launch a browser. You call page.goto() , wait for networkidle2 , call page.pdf() , handle the timeout, close the browser, write the file. And that's the happy path — before you've dealt with the Docker sandbox flags, the 300MB Chromium binary in CI, or the memory leak that shows up on page three. There's a cleaner way. The SnapAPI approach SnapAPI's /v1/pdf endpoint converts any URL to a PDF on our infrastructure. One HTTP call. No browser to manage. // npm install snapapi-sdk const snap = require ( ' snapapi-sdk ' ); const fs = require ( ' fs ' ); const api = new snap . SnapAPI ( ' YOUR_KEY ' ); // or set SNAPAPI_KEY env var async function generatePDF ( url , outputPath ) { const pdf = await api . pdf ({ url , format : ' A4 ' , print_background : true , // include CSS background colors/images margin_top : 20 , margin_bottom : 20 , margi