A simple and leightweight Markdown to PDF converter
A simple and leightweight tool for converting Markdown syntax to a PDF.
The API is responsible for handling requests from the frontend. The tasks are easy, so the API also works as the backend.
The frontend is a simple one-pager written in HTML and JavaScript. It sends and receives stuff to/from the API.
The database stores the PDF files, there is a dump provided that includes a routine to auto-delete files older than 5 days.
- Make sure to have a MySQL-Server and Python3 running.
- Setup a MySQL database. I strongly recommend using the provided dump, the dump provides not only the database structure, but also the auto-deletion routine.
- Setup the API. Therefore install all needed python librarys. The API runs with
gunicorn, install gunicorn itself and the python library (pip3 install gunicorn). - Run the API as daemon (e.g. use systemd). You can manually run it via
bash startapi.shin the API-folder. - Change the settings in the config.ini according to your needs. The
baseurlshould be the baseurl (url without endpoint; e.g.: http://api.domain.org or http://domain.org/api) from the API, NOT the frontend. - Setup the frontend, it requires HTML and JavaScript. I recommend a Webserver like Apache.
- The frontend uses 127.0.0.1:8080 for calling the API, if your API is elsewhere please adapt that in the index.html file.
Use this API image, setup the frontend with your prefered webserver.
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This is an issue with the cairo library on which weasyprint depends. Make sure to install a newer version (> 1.15 should fix that).