HTML to PDF API and MCP server for AI agents

Remote MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Claude Code

No code, no install, no npx. Paste this into your AI agent and it sets everything up, including your free account.

Read https://html-pdf.com/llms.txt and set up html-pdf.com so you can create PDFs for me.

Then just ask: "Make a PDF invoice for Acme, $1,200, due next Friday." Your agent writes the HTML, html-pdf.com turns it into a PDF, and you get a download link.

claude mcp add --transport http html-pdf https://html-pdf.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $HTML_PDF_KEY"

// ~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "html-pdf": {
      "url": "https://html-pdf.com/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer hp_live_..." }
    }
  }
}

# Claude: Customize → Connectors → Add custom connector
# ChatGPT: developer mode → create an MCP app with this URL
https://html-pdf.com/mcp
# then click Connect and log in with your email

# ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.html-pdf]
url = "https://html-pdf.com/mcp"
bearer_token_env_var = "HTML_PDF_KEY"

MCP tools: html_to_pdf, url_to_pdf, get_credits, buy_credits. Log in with OAuth or use a key. Step-by-step: guides for every tool · MCP reference

What agents make with it

• Invoicesfrom your billing data
• ReceiptsA4 or 80 mm thermal
• Reportsweekly metrics and charts
• Contracts & proposalsfilled in and ready to sign
• Certificatesone per person, at scale
• Event ticketswith QR codes
• Shipping labels4×6 in with barcodes
• Web page archivesany public URL, as PDF

Automate PDFs without writing HTML

Pick a template, connect the app you already use, and a PDF is created for every new order, form response or row. No code needed. The template is a ready-made page design that we turn into a PDF.

• Shopify ordersinvoice or packing slip per order
• WooCommerce ordersPDF invoice, emailed automatically
• Stripe paymentsbranded receipts
• Google Formseach response as a PDF
• Google Sheetsone PDF per row
• Notiondatabase items to PDF
• Typeformresults to PDF
• Gmailarchive emails as PDF

Start from a free template, try the free invoice generator or certificate generator, or browse all automation guides.

Generate PDFs from HTML in one API call

curl https://html-pdf.com/v1/pdf \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HTML_PDF_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"html": "<h1>Invoice #042</h1>", "format": "A4"}' \
  -o invoice.pdf

const res = await fetch("https://html-pdf.com/v1/pdf", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.HTML_PDF_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ html: "<h1>Invoice #042</h1>", format: "A4" }),
});
fs.writeFileSync("invoice.pdf", Buffer.from(await res.arrayBuffer()));

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://html-pdf.com/v1/pdf",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['HTML_PDF_KEY']}"},
    json={"html": "<h1>Invoice #042</h1>", "format": "A4"},
)
open("invoice.pdf", "wb").write(r.content)

curl https://html-pdf.com/v1/pdf \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HTML_PDF_KEY" \
  -d '{"url": "https://example.com", "media": "screen"}' \
  -o page.pdf

Guides: HTML to PDF in Python · in Node.js · API reference · OpenAPI · llms.txt

Works with n8n, Make and Zapier

Add an HTTP request step, POST your HTML to https://html-pdf.com/v1/pdf with your key, and get a PDF back. Add "response": "url" to get a download link instead of a file, which is easiest in no-code tools.

Full CSS support, rendered by headless Chrome

layout

Flexbox, grid, web fonts, SVG and Tailwind. If Chrome renders it, it works.

page breaks

break-before: page, break-inside: avoid, @page size and margins.

headers & footers

Repeated on every page, with page numbers: <span class="pageNumber"> of totalPages.

javascript

Charts and client-rendered pages: wait with wait_delay or wait_for_expression.

paper

A3 to A6, Letter, Legal, Tabloid or any custom size, portrait or landscape.

Why not Puppeteer, wkhtmltopdf or Gotenberg yourself?

no servers

No Chromium to install, patch and keep alive, no cold starts, no 1 GB container to scale.

maintained

wkhtmltopdf is archived and can't render modern CSS. We keep Chrome up to date for you. Compare →

safe by default

Untrusted HTML can't reach private networks. Failed renders cost zero.

agent-ready

Remote MCP, llms.txt, OpenAPI and signup by API, so your agent can set it up for you.

private

Your HTML isn't stored. Download links expire after 24 hours.

Pay per page. No subscription. Credits never expire.

Start with 100 free pages. Buy a pack when you need more. The bigger the pack, the cheaper each page, and it lasts until you use it.

Per page vs monthly plans

Competitor prices from their public pricing pages, checked October 2026. PDFShift alternative →

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