Installing wkhtmltopdf on Python 3.6 Alpine

Question

Has anyone been able to install wkhtmltopdf on python:3.6.0-alpine.

I have tried all the solutions present on the internet. I need to use pdfkit which internally uses wkhtmltopython to convert html to pdf.

Incision

It has a alpine package: pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86/wkhtmltopdf – Pedo

Install it inside your Dockerfile – Pedo

you mean apk add wkhtmltopdf? – Incision

Yes. Have you tried it ? – Pedo

this question may become relevant again, because wkhtmltopdf is not available in the Alpine 3.15 repository (released 2021-11) – Whirlybird

Answer 1

You might need wkhtmltopdf and xvfb to run on a server:

apk add wkhtmltopdf xvfb

Communistic

You can also add fonts apk add fontconfig freetype ttf-dejavu ttf-droid ttf-freefont ttf-liberation ttf-ubuntu-font-family – Zuckerman

Answer 2

In case someone would like to have the full line that needs to be added to the Dockerfile:

RUN apk update && apk add wkhtmltopdf

or:

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y wkhtmltopdf

You can then use the following code in your "Dockerized" Python script:

import pdfkit
path_wkhtmltopdf = '/usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf'
config = pdfkit.configuration(wkhtmltopdf=path_wkhtmltopdf)
pdfkit.from_string(html, '<direction/of/the/report.pdf>', configuration=config)

Hartill