Generate your first PDF

3 simple steps to generate your first PDF document

1. Create API Key

All of the API calls need to be authenticated.

Go to api keys page and create a new api key.

2. Create HTML template

PDF documents are generated by combining custom JSON data with HTML template. Our HTML templates support handlebars templating engine to make generation as dynamic and tailored as possible.

Go to templates page and create a new template using the following HTML

<html>
  <h1>{{title}}</h1>
  
  <table>
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <th>Description</th>
        <th>Amount</th>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
      
      {{#each items}}
      <tr>
        <td>{{description}}</td>
        <td>{{amount}}</td>
      </tr>
      {{~/each}}
      
    </tbody>
  </table>
</html>

3. Generate PDF document

Now we can start generating PDF documents. In this example we are going to use link as a delivery mode. To generate a document use the following cURL command. Link to the generated document will be in the response.

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Replace variables

Replace API_KEY_HERE with your API key and TEMPLATE_ID_HERE with template id

curl --request POST \
     --url https://api.dynamopdf.com/api/v1/pdf/link \
     --header 'accept: */*' \
     --header 'authorization: Bearer API_KEY_HERE' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '
{
  "templateId": "TEMPLATE_ID_HERE",
  "parameters": {
  	"title": "Bank statement",
    "items": [
    	{
      	"description": "Amazon",
        "amount": "142.14"
      },
      {
      	"description": "Target online",
        "amount": "29.37"
      }
    ]
  }
}
'