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a command-line tool to grab web pages as PDFs

Shown by danburzo on Oct 10, 2018. Click the card to turn it over.

123points

22comments

#348of 2,155 in 2018

Top 17%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

2 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.

Design: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against

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Nice and useful
From 1 comment
- Nice!
  v01d4lph4 on HN
Polar archive tool is a related idea
From 1 comment
- Polar has a similar feature if you're just wanting an archive of web pages: https://getpolarized.io/ We support 'captured' HTML pages. Basically what we do is we fetch the full…
  burtonator on HN

Default font is huge and page tiny; hard to read
From 1 comment
- Just tried it on their GitHub page: percollate pdf --output p.pdf https://github.com/danburzo/percollate The font is gigantic and the page tiny. Barely get to the second headline…
  heinrichhartman on HN
Lacks examples and screenshots in the README
From 2 comments
- You might want to include some actual pictures of the input and output in the readme. The current examples are just one-line command snippets which aren't as useful to someone…
  anonytrary on HN
- Examples please, and can you show me the differences made by the enhancements?
  dustingetz on HN
Chrome --print-to-pdf is simpler for basic cases
From 1 comment
- How is it different from, let's say: chrome --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf https://www.google.com/
  dananjaya86 on HN

Add README examples with before and after output
From 2 comments
- You might want to include some actual pictures of the input and output in the readme. The current examples are just one-line command snippets which aren't as useful to someone…
  anonytrary on HN
- Examples please, and can you show me the differences made by the enhancements?
  dustingetz on HN
Make page size and font size customizable
From 2 comments
- Just tried it on their GitHub page: percollate pdf --output p.pdf https://github.com/danburzo/percollate The font is gigantic and the page tiny. Barely get to the second headline…
  heinrichhartman on HN
- Yes. This would work. It's probably a good idea to not introduce flags like `--font-size 12p` or `--page A4` since it leads down a rabbit hole. (Where do you stop?). Directly…
  heinrichhartman on HN
Implement HTML output
From 1 comment
- This made me smile: > percollate html Not implemented yet
  dvfjsdhgfv on HN

How does it differ from Chrome headless print-to-pdf?
From 1 comment
- How is it different from, let's say: chrome --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf https://www.google.com/
  dananjaya86 on HN
Could it serve as a backend for Wikipedia's book creator?
From 1 comment
- Speaking of Wikipedia articles, have you checked out their "book creator" [0], it's a link on the left of every page? It has some significant issues [1] and as of now can't be…
  Ninjaneered on HN

Chrome headless --print-to-pdf
From 1 comment
- How is it different from, let's say: chrome --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf https://www.google.com/
  dananjaya86 on HN
Polar
From 1 comment
- Polar has a similar feature if you're just wanting an archive of web pages: https://getpolarized.io/ We support 'captured' HTML pages. Basically what we do is we fetch the full…
  burtonator on HN