Follow al the links on a page, and create one big site pdf
We now have a Batch API that can take a sitemap or a list of URLs and create one huge PDF. Please check out http://pdfmyurl.com/batch-web-to-pdf-api
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This has been made easier to implement. You can now provide an array of urls (separated by a space). You still need to provide the urls of the entire site, eg. through a url crawler of your own, for example http://www.xcombinator.com/2010/09/06/a-crawler-using-wget-and-xargs/
you can also read about the syntax of url arrays on our support page:
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Mike Oxbig commented
I wonder if a whole website can be turned into a PDF, and in the PDF itself you can click links that take you to different pages in the PDF. Get it? 0_o
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Thusitha Sampath commented
Actually this site is very usefull to me......
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geo commented
Would need to be an option. Wouldn't want this for every site.
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Jan commented
Would be great if PDFMYURL was available as a Firefox plugin or something you can add to your IE tool-bar - let me know if you ever introduce this
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Rod Oakley commented
What a god send this web site is. so easy to use. and works every time
Thanks team for all your efforts
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Sandi commented
Wonderful idea! Thanks, Keith. As you suggest, it is important for the user to have the choice as to the depth, number of levels, for the PDF they are creating. If it isn't practical at this time for PDFmyURL to create multi-level documents, it would be very useful if the links in separate PDFs, of several levels of the same website, would work between each of those PDFs, rather than linking back to the online internet website.
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keith commented
Allowing user to specify the depth of the search and/or a max size might be nice (or take the max size and create mutliple linked pdfs). Lastly, make it scriptable so once could have a cron job to get one's (subscription paid) wsj turned into a pdf for downloading onto netbooks, nooks, whatever devices. Of course, for that, we also need a way to specify username and password....
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scott.c.jordan commented
I've used website-archival tools before and understand how quickly the resulting file-sizes and bandwidth exponentiate (literally!) when link-following levels are added. Nonetheless, this is a hugely useful capability, even with just one level of link-follow. +3