[FIXED] wkhtmltopdf not working in Eclipse and/or Spyder

Issue

Trying to export a webpage as pdf in Eclipse or Spyder, I can successfully run the following script in the Mac terminal:

import pdfkit
import wkhtmltopdf
pdfkit.from_url('http://google.com', 'out.pdf')

But, this script does not work in either Eclipse PyDev or Anaconda Spyder giving the following error:

IOError: No wkhtmltopdf executable found: "" If this file exists please check that this process can read it. Otherwise please install wkhtmltopdf - https://github.com/JazzCore/python-pdfkit/wiki/Installing-wkhtmltopdf ERROR: Module: xxxx could not be imported (file: /Users/MyMac/Documents/myproject/mwe.py).

Note that I am using Python 2.7 and it seems wkhtmltopdf does not work properly in Python 3.* Also, I have added wkhtmltopdf's folder to PYTHONPATH.

Solution

You need to add the ..\wkhtmltopdf\bin to your PYTHONPATH.

In Eclipse go to project -> properties -> PyDev-PYTHONPATH and at the register External Libraries add your source folder (full path to ..\wkhtmltopdf\bin).

Answered By - Arrow