Puppeteer as a Service – No Server Required

// BEFORE — Self-hosted Puppeteer (all this complexity)
const puppeteer = require("puppeteer");

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
  executablePath: "/usr/bin/chromium",
  args: ["--no-sandbox", "--disable-setuid-sandbox", "--disable-dev-shm-usage"],
  headless: "new",
});
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.setContent(html, { waitUntil: "networkidle0" });
const pdf = await page.pdf({ format: "A4", printBackground: true });
await browser.close();
// Then upload to S3, generate signed URL, handle errors...

// AFTER — One fetch call
const { download_url } = await fetch(
  "https://api.html2dochub.com/v1/render",
  {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      "X-API-Key": "sk_live_YOUR_KEY",
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      type: "pdf",
      html,
      options: { format: "A4", print_background: true },
    }),
  }
).then((r) => r.json());

// download_url is a signed S3 URL — done.

# Before: pyppeteer / puppeteer-python
# (broken on many systems, memory issues, no M1 support)

# After: HTML2DocHub API — works everywhere
import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.html2dochub.com/v1/render",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "sk_live_YOUR_KEY"},
    json={
        "type": "pdf",
        "url": "https://yourapp.com/report/42",
        "options": {"format": "A4"},
    },
    timeout=30,
)
pdf_url = resp.json()["download_url"]