Use DocsFold PDF generation API with C#

This code makes a POST request to the DocsFold API with the required headers and request body to generate a PDF file from the specified template and overrides.

You need to replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual API key and YOUR_TEMPLATE_ID with your actual template ID.

This code example includes parsing the JSON response and downloading the PDF file from the specified URL. The PDF file is then saved to disk with the name "invoice.pdf".

Note that you'll need to adjust the file path as needed for the output PDF.

You'll also need to install the Newtonsoft.Json NuGet package to run this code.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
class DocsFoldAPI
{
    private const string API_KEY = "<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>";
    private const string API_URL = "https://app.docsfold.com/api/v1/generate-pdf";
    private const string TEMPLATE_ID = "<YOUR_TEMPLATE_ID_HERE>";
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        // JSON request body
        JObject requestBody = new JObject(
            new JProperty("template", TEMPLATE_ID),
            new JProperty("output_format", "url"),
            new JProperty("overrides", new JObject(
                new JProperty("invoice_nr", "123"),
                new JProperty("created_date", "January 1, 2022"),
                new JProperty("due_date", "February 1, 2022"),
                new JProperty("company_name", "Acme Corp"),
                new JProperty("company_address", "Acme road, 1"),
                new JProperty("company_postal_code", "Sunnyville, 1000"),
                new JProperty("client_company_name", "Doe Corp"),
                new JProperty("client_name", "John Doe"),
                new JProperty("client_email", "john@doe.com"),
                new JProperty("payment_method", "Check"),
                new JProperty("payment_method_value", 1000),
                new JProperty("items", new JArray(
                    new JObject(new JProperty("name", "Website design"), new JProperty("value", 300)),
                    new JObject(new JProperty("name", "Hosting (3 months)"), new JProperty("value", 75)),
                    new JObject(new JProperty("name", "Domain name (1 year)"), new JProperty("value", 10))
                ))
            ))
        );
        // Send the request
        HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(API_URL);
        request.Method = "POST";
        request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Bearer " + API_KEY);
        request.ContentType = "application/json";
        using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream()))
        {
            writer.Write(requestBody.ToString());
        }
        // Get the response
        try
        {
            HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
            using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream(), Encoding.UTF8))
            {
                string responseBody = reader.ReadToEnd();
                JObject responseObject = JObject.Parse(responseBody);
                string status = (string)responseObject["status"];
                string pdfUrl = (string)responseObject["pdf_url"];
                if (status == "SUCCESS" && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(pdfUrl))
                {
                    // Download the PDF file and save it to disk
                    WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
                    byte[] pdfData = webClient.DownloadData(pdfUrl);
                    File.WriteAllBytes("invoice.pdf", pdfData);
                    Console.WriteLine("PDF file saved to invoice.pdf");
                }
                else
                {
                    string message = (string)responseObject["message"];
                    Console.WriteLine("Error: " + message);
                }
            }
        }
        catch (WebException ex)
        {
            string message = ex.Message;
            if (ex.Response != null)
            {
                using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(ex.Response.GetResponseStream(), Encoding.UTF8))
                {
                    message = reader.ReadToEnd();
                }
            }
            Console.WriteLine("Error: " + message);
        }
    }
}

Use DocsFold PDF generation API with C#

Gustavo Santos