Save as pdf in selenium using Phantomjs in java

Question

I want to perform some tasks using selenium in java

//java code
WebDriver driver = new PhantomJSDriver();
driver.get("http://www.example.com");
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));  
element.sendKeys("Guru99");                 
element.submit();

After Submitting the form I want to save the result page as pdf. How can i achieve this. I don't know anything about other programming languages,so please help using java code.

@DanCornilescu I don't know anything about python,if you could help me with java code that would be great — Fawaz Ahmed, Apr 23 '16 at 20:09
Possible duplicate of [Chromedriver, Selenium - Automate downloads](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26894071/chromedriver-selenium-automate-downloads) — Nemo, May 07 '18 at 09:52

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 23 '16 at 20:31

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This is what you can do to achieve your result:-

Once you navigate to your result page after submitting the text you need to get the source of the page using:-

String htmlFileContent = driver.getPageSource();

Then you can create a file with this html content something like:-

File file = new File("index.html");
file.createNewFile();
PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter("index.html", "UTF-8");
pw.print(htmlFileContent);

Once the content is written in HTML file. You can use iText Library or any other pdf converter library to convert your html into pdf

Hope it helps!!

answered Apr 23 '16 at 20:31

Paras

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I will try and tell back – Fawaz Ahmed Apr 23 '16 at 20:33
text inside output pdf is not arranged properly – Fawaz Ahmed Apr 24 '16 at 04:54
ok in this case what you can do is just take a screenshot of that page in `png` or `jpeg` and convert that into `pdf`. – Paras Apr 24 '16 at 07:21
I want the pdf to be searchable – Fawaz Ahmed Apr 24 '16 at 08:41
There is one service that I know but its not open source. You can use that api call and pass the exact url and it directly converts your `html` to `pdf`. – Paras Apr 24 '16 at 08:50
In my case,I have to perform some query on a page,and the result after performing query,i want to save it as pdf,so passing url won't work. – Fawaz Ahmed Apr 24 '16 at 09:00

Save as pdf in selenium using Phantomjs in java

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