Change from unmaintained pyppeteer package to alternative for building PDF documents from book

[kallewesterling]

Context

While exploring the option to create a download option for the whole The Turing Way as a PDF document (the-turing-way/the-turing-way#2211), we ran into an issue where the pyppeteer package runs into a Timeout Exception. It has also been documented here in the jupyter-book community, see #1732.

While there seems to be workarounds in the #1732 issue for how to resolve the Timeout Exception, I discovered that the entire pypetteer package, which jupyter-book has the docs built on, has this notice from 2021 in their README:

Attention: This repo is unmaintained and has been outside of minor changes for a long time. Please consider playwright-python as an alternative.

Proposal

This is a suggestion to change the code + instructions for how to build a PDF from a book's HTML (see the docs) to move from the now unmaintained pyppeteer package to something else (they are proposing playwright-python as an alternative).

Tasks and updates

• Explore alternatives to pyppeteer package for download of all of a book's pages, such as playwright-python or even selenium
• Discuss and decide which alternative to go with
• Implement the newly selected package in the build --builder pdfhtml command's workflow

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