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Migrating off wkhtmltopdf to Headless Chrome: A Practical Guide for 2026

wkhtmltopdf is archived. Map every flag to Headless Chrome, fix headers, footers and CSS, and switch Api2Pdf endpoints with a tested Python script.

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Generate PDFs from Cursor and Claude Code with the Api2Pdf MCP Server: A Hands-On Guide

Hands-on guide to the Api2Pdf MCP server: connect Cursor, Claude Code and VS Code, use all 11 tools, generate invoices, merge P...

Puppeteer vs Playwright vs HTML-to-PDF API: The Real Cost of PDF Generation in 2026

Puppeteer and Playwright on AWS Lambda vs the Api2Pdf HTML-to-PDF API: working code, cost math from 10k to 10M PDFs a month, an...

Build a RAG Pipeline in Python with Api2Pdf OpenDataLoader and MarkItDown

Build a Python RAG pipeline: convert PDFs and Office files with OpenDataLoader and MarkItDown, then chunk, embed, and query.

Api2Pdf Now Accepts x402 Payments: AI Agents Can Generate PDFs Without an Account

AI agents can now generate PDFs, images and barcodes with Api2Pdf by paying per request with x402 (USDC on Base), with no API k...

Api2Pdf now has an MCP server

Connect Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code or your own agent to mcp.api2pdf.com and get 11 tools: HTML, URL and Markdown to PDF, scre...

Convert Files to Markdown with the API2PDF MarkItDown API

The new POST /markitdown endpoint converts PDFs, Office documents and other files into clean Markdown for search, storage and A...

Convert Markdown to PDF API endpoint now available

Send raw Markdown to POST /chrome/pdf/markdown and get a rendered PDF back from Headless Chrome, with no intermediate HTML step.

Extract Data from PDFs with the API2PDF OpenDataLoader API

Three new OpenDataLoader endpoints extract structured JSON, Markdown or HTML from any PDF, ready for search, RAG and LLM pipeli...

Add Watermarks to PDFs with the API2PDF Watermark API

Add text or image watermarks to PDFs programmatically with the new POST /pdf/watermark endpoint. Options, examples and pricing.

Chrome binary upgraded to v152

The Headless Chrome engine behind the /chrome endpoints is now Chrome v152, keeping rendering and security current.

V2 XL now available

v2-xl.api2pdf.com gives each request 4 CPU, 8 GB of memory and a 5 minute timeout for large or slow documents, at 10x the stand...

Major upgrades released!

The Api2Pdf backend was rewritten from the ground up: a new runtime, upgraded Chrome, wkhtmltopdf and LibreOffice engines, and ...

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