dieters877565/bidi2pdf repository overview

⁠📄 Bidi2pdf – Reliable PDF Generation Using Chrome's BiDi Protocol

Turn any website into a high-quality PDF with Bidi2pdf, leveraging the modern Chrome BiDi (Bidirectional)⁠ protocol for robust, scriptable browser control.

🔗 Source & Documentation: GitHub – dieter-medium/bidi2pdf⁠

⁠🚀 Quick Start

Use this Docker image to generate PDFs from websites with ease — no local Chrome installation required.

⁠🆘 Show Help

docker run -ti --rm \
  -v ./output:/reports \
  dieters877565/bidi2pdf:main-slim \
  bidi2pdf

⁠🖨️ Render a Website as PDF

docker run -ti --rm \
  -v ./output:/reports \
  dieters877565/bidi2pdf:main-slim \
  bidi2pdf render \
    --url=https://example.com \
    --output /reports/example.pdf    

⁠✅ Features

• ✔️ Uses Chrome’s BiDi Protocol for modern browser automation
• ✔️ Headless PDF rendering – no GUI, just clean output
• ✔️ Runs in Docker – portable, isolated, and easy to use
• ✔️ Simple CLI interface for quick integration
• ✔️ Network logging – Know which requests fail during rendering
• ✔️ Console log capture – See what goes wrong inside the browser