# esbenp/pdf-bot

🤖 A Node queue API for generating PDFs using headless Chrome. Comes with a CLI, S3 storage and webhooks for notifying subscribers about generated PDFs

Repository: https://github.com/esbenp/pdf-bot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pdf-bot
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: html, pdf, headless, headless-chrome, pdf-generator, nodejs, node-js, pdf-generation, chromium, headless-chromium, google-chrome
Last push: 2024-03-07T17:14:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3312, "days_push": 909, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2641, forks 146 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:06.516644+00:00)

## What it is
A Node.js microservice that generates PDFs from URLs using headless Chrome, with a queue API, CLI, S3 storage, and webhook notifications. Failed jobs and webhook pings are retried on a configurable decaying schedule.

## Use cases
- generate pdf from url
- convert html invoices to pdf
- self-hosted pdf generation api
- queue pdf rendering jobs with webhooks
- store generated pdfs on s3
- headless chrome pdf service

## When to choose
- you need a dedicated PDF-generation microservice driven by URLs
- you want queued, retried PDF jobs with webhook callbacks
- you want S3 storage integration out of the box

## When to avoid
- you need client-side PDF generation in the browser
- you need PDFs from raw HTML strings without hosting a service
- you need a maintained library rather than a self-hosted service

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: pdf, http-server, cli, webhook, message-queue, file-upload
- domain: pdf, web-development, backend, developer-tools
- platform: cli, self-hosted
- tags: headless-chrome, pdf-generation, microservice, s3-storage, job-queue, html-to-pdf, automation, nodejs, web-server, linux

## Member repositories
- esbenp/pdf-bot (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:06.516644+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 2026-08-30T02:19:04.095836+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/esbenp/pdf-bot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:06.516644+00:00, sha 495cc68c14cc)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/pdf-bot (fetched 2026-08-29T10:02:13.556519+00:00, sha 37ed76c83f0f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.