# arachnys/athenapdf

Drop-in replacement for wkhtmltopdf built on Go, Electron and Docker

Repository: https://github.com/arachnys/athenapdf
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/athenapdf
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: docker, pdf-conversion, pdf-converter, microservice, go, golang, electron, javascript, cli, html-to-pdf, report, aws-ecs, kubernetes
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-03-06T10:53:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3808, "days_push": 1276, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2245, forks 184 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:30.129826+00:00)

## What it is
Athena is a Docker-powered HTML-to-PDF conversion tool consisting of an Electron-based CLI and a Go microservice, designed as a drop-in replacement for wkhtmltopdf. It offers reliable headless PDF generation with an optional 'aggressive' clutter-free reading mode.

## Use cases
- convert html pages to pdf from the command line
- replace wkhtmltopdf with a more reliable pdf converter
- run pdf conversion as a microservice over http
- generate pdf reports from web pages in headless environments
- produce clutter-free pdf versions of web articles

## When to choose
- you need dependable headless HTML-to-PDF conversion and wkhtmltopdf keeps crashing
- you want to expose PDF conversion as an HTTP microservice in Docker or Kubernetes
- you want a drop-in wkhtmltopdf alternative with Docker as the only dependency

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained project - Athena is deprecated and unsupported
- you want to avoid Docker or Electron dependencies
- you need advanced PDF features beyond simple HTML rendering

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: pdf, cli, http-server
- domain: pdf, developer-tools, web-development
- platform: cli, cross-platform, go
- tags: html-to-pdf, wkhtmltopdf-replacement, microservice, deprecated, headless, docker, electron

## Member repositories
- arachnys/athenapdf (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:30.129826+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:43:59.889506+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/arachnys/athenapdf (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:30.129826+00:00, sha 5f74df85a6d8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.