Export Confluence page(s) to PDF

Why use?

Advantages

• Uses an automated web based login to Confluence on a headless browser to export a PDF using Confluence's own PDF export.
• Does not require Confluence API to be turned on to export files.
• Script can be changed to do any manual steps you can do in a browser (e.g. export to other formats, make changes).

Disadvantages

• Script is an automated specific case and is not ideal to configurations or accepting parameters. For configurations, use the Confluence API or CLI.

Web Automation Option

Node.JS Puppeteer Option

Set up

Install Node LTS

npm install
cp config/default.yaml config/local.yaml

Edit local.yaml with your Confluence username, password, and URL for the export setting in your space.

Run

node index.js

Appendix: Original project setup

1. Record use case in Chrome recorder
2. Install Puppeteer which will include a recent version of Chromium npm i puppeteer
3. Install config to manage configuration files npm install config
4. Install js-yaml to parse yaml configuration npm i js-yaml

References Used for Building this Repository and Researching Options

• confluence-scraping
• Confluence manual PDF export
• Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI) and Examples with PDF export
• Python API for Confluence and documentation
• batch-export-wiki-pdf - recursively save PDFs from a parent page and its children

Web Testing Approach

• How to Build a Web Scraper - Python, Selenium
• Modern Web Automation With Python and Selenium
• Web Browser Automation with Selenium and Java