ImportError: No module named pdfkit

Question

I am working on pdfkit library in python in order to create pdf file from html string. It works fine on my linux system but when i try to run it on windows server then it gives me error

pdfkit.from_string(html_string, output_dir)

and i get following error

import pdfkit
ImportError: No module named pdfkit

I installed wkhtmltopdf using .exe and pdfkit on windows using pip.

I also set path for wkhtmltopdf in environment variables.

Can you try to re-install the package using `pip install --ignore-installed pdfkit` and provide the output to that re-install command? — mattdonders, Jan 31 '18 at 14:32
no i was replying to @JohnGordon .. i tried installing pdfkit with pip3 command and it shows me `could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pdfkit` — Ancient, Jan 31 '18 at 14:33
@mattdonders i tried and it installed successfully as it happens before — Ancient, Jan 31 '18 at 14:34
it might sound ridiculous, but check your spellings. I tried it for you just now; it's there; if you still can't get it, try as `admin`. — stucash, Jan 31 '18 at 14:38
https://ibb.co/iMNdYm I opened cmd in administrator mode and spelling is also correct ! — Ancient, Jan 31 '18 at 15:21
@Ancient the screenshot above shows you typed `pdkit` twice instead of pdfkit, just an FYI. My command should have re-installed it if it was already installed so I assume you have it. The other thing you can try is open an interactive verbose python shell via `python -v` and then type the following commands - `import sys` `sys.version_info` `import pdfkit` and it should provide a verbose output. — mattdonders, Jan 31 '18 at 15:35
@Ancient can you provide the output from those commands (in a screenshot or some other link)? — mattdonders, Jan 31 '18 at 17:47

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 17 '19 at 12:05

Yaa, the main issue is, it may unable to find out the absolute path because of permission in windows, just try with administrator privileges as well give permission to directories to traversal.

for simple, you can do, copy the executable into your current directory :) :-)

or use the below lines in your code

path_wkthmltopdf = 'C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe'
config = pdfkit.configuration(wkhtmltopdf=path_wkthmltopdf)

pdfkit.from_string(html_string, output_file, configuration=config)

If you are using Anaconda cloud, you can install pdfkit using conda install -c conda-forge python-pdfkit

or conda install -c bioconda wkhtmltopdf

for more details you can go through below links

Docs

1: wkhtmltopdf

2: pdfkit

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 25 '21 at 00:15

Besides the previous answer, I had the same problem. I was using a Virtual Environment and I was installing Pdfkit to the Global Python config, but I had to install it inside the Virtual Environment.

(myvenv) C:\Users\user1\Documents\python-project> pip install pdfkit

or

(myvenv) C:\Users\user1\Documents\python-project> C:\Users\user1\Documents\python-project/myvenv/Scripts/python.exe -m pip install pdfkit

ImportError: No module named pdfkit

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