Exporting HTML Page into PDF In Django

Views.py

from django.shortcuts import render

from io import BytesIO

from django.http import HttpResponse

from django.template.loader import get_template

from xhtml2pdf import pisa  

from django.views import generic

import pandas as pd

# Create your views here.

# defining the function to convert an HTML file to a PDF file

def html_to_pdf(template_src, context_dict={}):

     template = get_template(template_src)

     html  = template.render(context_dict)

     result = BytesIO()

     pdf = pisa.pisaDocument(BytesIO(html.encode("ISO-8859-1")), result)

     if not pdf.err:

         return HttpResponse(result.getvalue(), content_type='application/pdf')

     return None

class GeneratePdf(generic.View):

     def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):

         

        # getting the template

        pdf = html_to_pdf('app/dashboard/climate_risk.html')

         

         # rendering the template

        return HttpResponse(pdf, content_type='application/pdf')

urls.py

     path('generate_PDF', views.generate_PDF),