How to generate a PDF from a URL in Node.js

How to Generate a PDF from a URL in Node.js The standard approach to PDF generation in Node.js: spin up Puppeteer, launch a Chromium process, navigate to the URL, call page.pdf() , handle memory leaks, then clean up the browser. That's 50+ lines of lifecycle management for a file conversion. An API call does the same thing in 10: import fs from ' fs ' ; const res = await fetch ( ' https://api.pagebolt.dev/v1/pdf ' , { method : ' POST ' , headers : { ' x-api-key ' : process . env . PAGEBOLT_API_KEY , ' Content-Type ' : ' application/json ' }, body : JSON . stringify ({ url : ' https://example.com/report ' , format : ' A4 ' , printBackground : true , blockBanners : true }) }); const buffer = Buffer . from ( await res . arrayBuffer ()); fs . writeFileSync ( ' output.pdf ' , buffer ); No dependencies beyond Node's built-in fetch (Node 18+). No browser process, no memory management. Common options { url : ' https://example.com ' , format : ' A4 ' , // A4, Letter, Legal, A3 printBackground :