PDF Delete Pages

Available Methods

• /pdf/edit/delete-pages

/pdf/edit/delete-pages

Deletes selected pages inside a PDF file.

• Method: POST

• Endpoint: /v1/pdf/edit/delete-pages

Attributes

Note

Attributes are case-sensitive and should be inside JSON for POST request, for example:

{
    "url": "https://example.com/file1.pdf"
}

Attribute	Description	Required
url	URL to the source file. 1	yes
httpusername	HTTP auth user name if required to access source url.	no
httppassword	HTTP auth password if required to access source url.	no
pages	Specify page indices as comma-separated values or ranges to process (e.g. "0, 1, 2-" or "1, 2, 3-7"). The first-page index is 0, Use "!" before a number for inverted page numbers (e.g. "!0" for the last page). If not specified, the default configuration processes all pages. The input must be in string format.	no
name	File name for the generated output, the input must be in string format.	no
expiration	Set the expiration time for the output link in minutes (default is 60 i.e 60 minutes or 1 hour), After this specified duration, any generated output file(s) will be automatically deleted from PDF.co Temporary Files Storage. The maximum duration for link expiration varies based on your current subscription plan. To store permanent input files (e.g. re-usable images, pdf templates, documents) consider using PDF.co Built-In Files Storage.	no
async	Set async to true for long processes to run in the background, API will then return a jobId which you can use with the Background Job Check endpoint to check the status of the process and retrieve the output while you can proceed with other tasks.	no
profiles	Use this parameter to set additional configurations for fine-tuning and extra options. Explore the Profiles section for more.	no

Query parameters

No query parameters accepted.

Payload 3

{
    "url": "pdfco-test-files.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.compdf-split/sample.pdf",
    "pages": "1-2",
    "name": "result.pdf",
    "async": false
}

Response 2

{
    "url": "https://pdf-temp-files.s3.amazonaws.com/d15e5b2c89c04484ae6ac7244ac43ac2/result.pdf",
    "pageCount": 2,
    "error": false,
    "status": 200,
    "name": "result.pdf",
    "remainingCredits": 60100
}

CURL

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/edit/delete-pages' \
--header 'x-api-key: *******************' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "url": "pdfco-test-files.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.compdf-split/sample.pdf",
    "pages": "1-2",
    "name": "result.pdf",
    "async": false
}'

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Code samples

JavaScript / Node.js

// `request` module is required for file upload.
// Use "npm install request" command to install.
var request = require('request');

// You can also upload your own file into PDF.co and use it as url. Check "Upload File" samples for code snippets: https://github.com/bytescout/pdf-co-api-samples/tree/master/File%20Upload/
var options = {
  'method': 'POST',
  'url': 'https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/edit/delete-pages',
  'headers': {
    'x-api-key': '{{x-api-key}}'
  },
  formData: {
    'url': 'https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-split/sample.pdf',
    'name': 'result.pdf',
    'pages': '1-2'
  }
};
request(options, function (error, response) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);
  console.log(response.body);
});

Python

import requests

url = "https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/edit/delete-pages"

# You can also upload your own file into PDF.co and use it as url. Check "Upload File" samples for code snippets: https://github.com/bytescout/pdf-co-api-samples/tree/master/File%20Upload/
payload = {'url': 'https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-split/sample.pdf',
'name': 'result.pdf',
'pages': '1-2'}
files = [

]
headers = {
    'x-api-key': '{{x-api-key}}'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, json = payload, files = files)

print(response.text.encode('utf8'))

C#

using System;
using RestSharp;
namespace HelloWorldApplication {
    class HelloWorld {
        static void Main(string[] args) {
            var client = new RestClient("https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/edit/delete-pages");
            client.Timeout = -1;
            var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
            request.AddHeader("x-api-key", "{{x-api-key}}");
            request.AlwaysMultipartFormData = true;

            // You can also upload your own file into PDF.co and use it as url. Check "Upload File" samples for code snippets: https://github.com/bytescout/pdf-co-api-samples/tree/master/File%20Upload/
            request.AddParameter("url", "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-split/sample.pdf");
            request.AddParameter("name", "result.pdf");
            request.AddParameter("pages", "1-2");
            IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
            Console.WriteLine(response.Content);
        }
    }
}

Java

import java.io.*;
import okhttp3.*;
public class main {
    public static void main(String []args) throws IOException{
        OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient().newBuilder()
            .build();
        MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("text/plain");
          // You can also upload your own file into PDF.co and use it as url. Check "Upload File" samples for code snippets: https://github.com/bytescout/pdf-co-api-samples/tree/master/File%20Upload/
        RequestBody body = new MultipartBody.Builder().setType(MultipartBody.FORM)
            .addFormDataPart("url", "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-split/sample.pdf")
            .addFormDataPart("name", "result.pdf")
            .addFormDataPart("pages", "1-2")
            .build();
        Request request = new Request.Builder()
            .url("https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/edit/delete-pages")
            .method("POST", body)
            .addHeader("x-api-key", "{{x-api-key}}")
            .build();
        Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
        System.out.println(response.body().string());
    }
}

PHP

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

// You can also upload your own file into PDF.co and use it as url. Check "Upload File" samples for code snippets: https://github.com/bytescout/pdf-co-api-samples/tree/master/File%20Upload/
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/edit/delete-pages",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
    CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array('url' => 'https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-split/sample.pdf','name' => 'result.pdf','pages' => '1-2'),
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
        "x-api-key: {{x-api-key}}"
    ),
));

$response = json_decode(curl_exec($curl));

curl_close($curl);
echo "<h2>Output:</h2><pre>", var_export($response, true), "</pre>";

On Github

• JavaScript samples

• Python samples

• C# samples

• Java samples

• PHP samples

• PowerShell samples

• Salesforce samples

• cURL samples

Footnotes

1

Supports publicly accessible links from any source, including Google Drive, Dropbox, and PDF.co Built-In Files Storage. To upload files via the API, check out the File Upload section. Note: If you experience intermittent Access Denied or Too Many Requests errors, please try adding cache: to enable built-in URL caching (e.g., cache:https://example.com/file1.pdf). For data security, you have the option to encrypt output files and decrypt input files. Learn more about user-controlled data encryption.

2

Main response codes as follows:

Code	Description
200	Success
400	Bad request. Typically happens because of bad input parameters, or because the input URLs can’t be reached, possibly due to access restrictions like needing a login or password.
401	Unauthorized
402	Not enough credits
445	Timeout error. To process large documents or files please use asynchronous mode (set the async parameter to true) and then check status using the /job/check endpoint. If a file contains many pages then specify a page range using the pages parameter. The number of pages of the document can be obtained using the /pdf/info endpoint.

Note

For more see the complete list of available response codes.

3

PDF.co Request size: API requests do not support request sizes of more than 4 megabytes in size. Please ensure that request sizes do not exceed this limit.

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