Gotenberg

API

Self-hosted Docker API that converts HTML, URLs and Office files to PDF

Price: Free, open source
Access: None; optional basic auth

About

Open-source Docker image with an HTTP API that renders HTML, URLs and Markdown to PDF with Chromium and converts Office files with LibreOffice. You run it yourself; a rate-limited public demo exists for testing. MIT licensed.

What you can do with it

Render an HTML page or URL to PDF with headless Chromium
Convert Word, Excel and PowerPoint files to PDF with LibreOffice
Merge, split, watermark or encrypt existing PDF files

Get started

Start the container with docker run
POST a URL, HTML or Office file as multipart form data

Example

docker run --rm -p 3000:3000 gotenberg/gotenberg:8
# in another terminal (or try https://demo.gotenberg.dev first)
curl --request POST http://localhost:3000/forms/chromium/convert/url \
  --form url=https://sparksuite.github.io/simple-html-invoice-template/ \
  -o invoice.pdf

Details

Hosting: Self-hosted
Available in: Worldwide
Official SDKs: PHP
MCP server: None