daif/chrome-pdf-bundle

A Symfony bundle for generating PDFs and screenshots using a local Chrome/Chromium binary via Chrome DevTools Protocol, with a clean, builder-based API.

v0.9.0-alpha 2026-02-10 21:52 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.1
• ext-filter: *
• ext-json: *
• chrome-php/chrome: ^1.15
• league/commonmark: ^2.8
• psr/container: ^2.0
• psr/log: ^3.0
• symfony/config: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/dependency-injection: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/filesystem: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/http-foundation: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/http-kernel: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/service-contracts: ^3.6

Requires (Dev)

• ext-mbstring: *
• async-aws/s3: ^2.6
• friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer: ^3.93
• league/flysystem: ^3.29
• phpstan/extension-installer: ^1.3
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.1
• phpstan/phpstan-phpunit: ^2.0
• phpstan/phpstan-symfony: ^2.0
• phpunit/phpunit: ^10.5.46
• shipmonk/composer-dependency-analyser: ^1.8
• symfony/asset: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/asset-mapper: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/console: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/css-selector: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/dom-crawler: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/error-handler: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/framework-bundle: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/http-client: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/monolog-bundle: ^3.10 || ^4.0
• symfony/routing: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/stopwatch: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/twig-bundle: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/var-dumper: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/yaml: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• twig/twig: ^3.14

Suggests

• async-aws/s3: Upload any file to aws s3 compatible endpoints supporting multi part upload without memory overhead.
• league/flysystem-bundle: Upload any file using this filesystem abstraction package.
• monolog/monolog: Enables logging througout the generating process.
• symfony/monolog-bundle: Enables logging througout the generating process.
• symfony/routing: Allows you to use route() method to generate PDFs from Symfony routes.
• symfony/twig-bundle: Allows you to use Twig to render templates into PDF.

MIT

• DAIF Abderrahman

• symfony
• bundle
• pdf
• chrome
• screenshot
• chromium

README

WYSIWYPDF -- What You See Is What You PDF

The dockerless PDF generator for Symfony. Just Chrome. No containers, no wrapping, no kidding.

composer require daif/chrome-pdf-bundle

Why this bundle?

I wanted to use sensiolabs/gotenberg-bundle -- it's a great and complete Symfony bundle for PDF generation. But it relies on Gotenberg, which requires a running Docker container.

In my case, working in on-premise environments (banking, insurance, regulated industries), Docker is simply not available on production servers. Security policies and infrastructure constraints prevent running containers.

Yet these same machines almost always have a browser installed, or can easily add one. Google Chrome and Chromium are well-maintained, widely trusted, and available on virtually every Linux distribution through standard package managers.

So I built ChromePdfBundle: the same clean builder-based API, but driving Chrome/Chromium directly via the Chrome DevTools Protocol -- no Docker, no external service, no extra infrastructure.

Docker-based solutions	ChromePdfBundle
Require Docker + a running container	Requires only a Chrome/Chromium binary
HTTP calls to an external service	Direct communication via CDP
Extra infrastructure to maintain	Uses a browser already on the system
Not usable in Docker-free environments	Works everywhere Chrome runs

How to install

Requirements

• PHP 8.1+
• Symfony 6.4 / 7.x / 8.x
• Google Chrome or Chromium installed on the system (see Chrome installation guide)

composer require daif/chrome-pdf-bundle

This installs the bundle along with chrome-php/chrome, the PHP library used to communicate with Chrome via the DevTools Protocol.

Enable the bundle

If not using Symfony Flex, manually register the bundle:

// config/bundles.php

return [
    // ...
    Daif\ChromePdfBundle\DaifChromePdfBundle::class => ['all' => true],
];

Configuration

Create a minimal configuration:

# config/packages/daif_chrome_pdf.yaml

daif_chrome_pdf:
    assets_directory: '%kernel.project_dir%/assets'

The bundle will automatically detect Chrome/Chromium on your system. You can also specify the binary path explicitly:

daif_chrome_pdf:
    chrome_binary: '/usr/bin/google-chrome'

Basic Usage

PDF from Twig template

namespace App\Controller;

use Daif\ChromePdfBundle\ChromePdfInterface;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

class InvoiceController
{
    public function generateInvoice(ChromePdfInterface $chromePdf): Response
    {
        return $chromePdf->html()
            ->content('invoice.html.twig', [
                'invoice' => $invoice,
            ])
            ->generate()
            ->stream()
        ;
    }
}

PDF from URL

use Daif\ChromePdfBundle\ChromePdfInterface;

class ReportController
{
    public function generateReport(ChromePdfInterface $chromePdf): Response
    {
        return $chromePdf->url()
            ->url('https://example.com/report')
            ->generate()
            ->stream()
        ;
    }
}

PDF from Markdown

use Daif\ChromePdfBundle\ChromePdfInterface;

class DocController
{
    public function generateDoc(ChromePdfInterface $chromePdf): Response
    {
        return $chromePdf->markdown()
            ->wrapper('wrapper.html.twig')
            ->files('content.md')
            ->generate()
            ->stream()
        ;
    }
}

Screenshot

use Daif\ChromePdfBundle\ChromeScreenshotInterface;

class ScreenshotController
{
    public function capture(ChromeScreenshotInterface $chromeScreenshot): Response
    {
        return $chromeScreenshot->html()
            ->content('page.html.twig')
            ->generate()
            ->stream()
        ;
    }
}

Twig assets

If a template needs to link to a static asset (image, CSS, font), use the {{ chrome_pdf_asset() }} Twig function:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8"/>
    <title>My PDF</title>
</head>
<body>
    <img src="{{ chrome_pdf_asset('img/logo.png') }}" alt="Logo"/>
</body>
</html>

Advanced Usage

1. Chrome installation guide
2. Configuration
3. Processing (saving, streaming, S3...)
4. Working with assets
5. Working with fonts

PDF

1. HTML Builder
2. URL Builder
3. Markdown Builder
4. Header / Footer

Screenshot

1. HTML Builder
2. URL Builder
3. Markdown Builder

Licence

MIT License (MIT): see the License File for more details.