Generate PDFs in Python

Prerequisites

• A PDFDesignAPI account and API token.
• A template UUID with a schema and at least one data binding.
• Trusted server-side code where the token remains secret.

Install the HTTP client

python -m pip install requests

Generate and save the PDF

import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    f"https://pdfdesignapi.com/api/v1/generate/single/{os.environ['TEMPLATE_UUID']}",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['PDFDESIGNAPI_TOKEN']}"},
    json={"data": {"customer": {"name": "Example BV"}}},
    timeout=60,
)
response.raise_for_status()

with open("document.pdf", "wb") as pdf:
    pdf.write(response.content)

Production notes

• Always configure a timeout.
• Catch requests.HTTPError where the application can report or retry failures.
• Do not retry schema validation errors without changing the request.