Get PDF content

[matteocacciola]

If I have the link to a PDF file, how may get its content by using SeleniumBase?

[mdmintz]

There's sb.get_pdf_text(pdf):

SeleniumBase/help_docs/method_summary.md

Lines 329 to 331 in 8317bc8

	self.get_pdf_text(
	pdf, page=None, maxpages=None, password=None,
	codec='utf-8', wrap=False, nav=False, override=False, caching=True)

Example: SeleniumBase/examples/test_get_pdf_text.py

from seleniumbase import BaseCase
BaseCase.main(__name__, __file__)

class PdfTests(BaseCase):
    def test_get_pdf_text(self):
        pdf = "https://nostarch.com/download/Automate_the_Boring_Stuff_sample_ch17.pdf"
        pdf_text = self.get_pdf_text(pdf, page=1)
        print("\n" + pdf_text)

[matteocacciola]

Thank you for your prompt support. Perhaps I did not explain well my problem. I don't want to extract the text by PDF miner. I want to grab the pure bytes as they should come from the HTTP response. Is it more clear now?

[mdmintz]

Maybe something from one of these:

• examples/cdp_mode/raw_req_sb.py
• examples/cdp_mode/raw_res_sb.py
• examples/cdp_mode/raw_xhr_sb.py

[matteocacciola]

Thank you, but I can't figure out how to simply grab the content, like it happens with requests library for instance

[mdmintz]

There are entire repos devoted to PDF-parsing for a reason (it's a non-trivial task):

• /~https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six
• /~https://github.com/smalot/pdfparser
• /~https://github.com/euske/pdfminer
• /~https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf

If the SeleniumBase get_pdf_text(pdf) method isn't good enough, and you can't figure out how to retrieve the data via the examples above (such as examples/cdp_mode/raw_xhr_sb.py), then you're going to need to use an external PDF parser repo.