Exporting a Google Sites to PDF
Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 1:48PM Google Sites does not provide a way to export a page within a Google Site as a PDF. However, you can use the Google Sites API coupled with wkhtmltopdf to export a Site as PDF. Here is how:
Step 1) Obtain/compile/install wkhtmltopdf on your system. Instructions can be found here.
Step 2) Obtain a Authentication Token from Google:
# curl https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin -d Email=user@domain.tld -d Passwd=mysecretpassword -d accountType=HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE -d source=cURL-Example -d service=jotspot
This will return something that looks as follows:
SID=DQAAAHYBADCv2pSv7nflacDNwz3zEDUGtrSvNSfddi77b35sEaH.................................
LSID=EUBBBIaBADCl-kNxvRVmcQghpt3cqSMfEooKR9flL...............................
Auth=EUBBIacAAADK-kNxvRVmcQghpt3cqSMfEo..........................................
Step 3) Export a Google Sites page as PDF using wkhtmltopdf:
# wkhtmltopdf --custom-header "Authorization" "GoogleLogin auth=AuthKey" https://sites.google.com/site/sitename/page-title?tmpl=/system/app/templates/print/ output.pdf
Saqib Ali
Even though this will export the content of the Google Site, any embedded/inserted spreadsheet/doc/presentation/gadget will not show up in the exported PDF. You will instead see something as following:
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