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Split PDF From URL Asynchronously | PowerShell | PDF Splitting API
run.bat:
@echo off powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "& .\SplitPdfFromUrlAsynchronously.ps1" echo Script finished with errorlevel=%errorlevel% pause
SplitPdfFromUrlAsynchronously.ps1:
# Cloud API asynchronous "Split PDF" job example. # Allows to avoid timeout errors when processing huge or scanned PDF documents. # The authentication key (API Key). # Get your own by registering at https://app.pdf.co $API_KEY = "***********************************" # Source PDF file to split $SourceFileUrl = "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-split/sample.pdf" # Comma-separated list of page numbers (or ranges) to process. Example: '1,3-5,7-'. $Pages = "1-2,3-" # (!) Make asynchronous job $Async = $true # Prepare URL for `Split PDF` API call $query = "https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/split" # Prepare request body (will be auto-converted to JSON by Invoke-RestMethod) # See documentation: https://apidocs.pdf.co $body = @{ "pages" = $Pages "url" = $SourceFileUrl "async" = $Async } | ConvertTo-Json try { # Execute request $response = Invoke-WebRequest -Method Post -Headers @{ "x-api-key" = $API_KEY; "Content-Type" = "application/json" } -Body $body -Uri $query $jsonResponse = $response.Content | ConvertFrom-Json if ($jsonResponse.error -eq $false) { # Asynchronous job ID $jobId = $jsonResponse.jobId # URL of generated JSON file available after the job completion; it will contain URLs of result PDF files. $resultJsonFileUrl = $jsonResponse.url # Check the job status in a loop. do { $statusCheckUrl = "https://api.pdf.co/v1/job/check?jobid=" + $jobId $jsonStatus = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Headers @{ "x-api-key" = $API_KEY } -Uri $statusCheckUrl # Display timestamp and status (for demo purposes) Write-Host "$(Get-date): $($jsonStatus.status)" if ($jsonStatus.status -eq "success") { # Download JSON file with URLs of result PDF files $jsonPdfUrls = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Headers @{ "x-api-key" = $API_KEY } -Uri $resultJsonFileUrl # Download generated PDF files $part = 1; foreach ($url in $jsonPdfUrls) { $localFileName = ".\part$($part).pdf" # Download PDF file Invoke-WebRequest -Headers @{ "x-api-key" = $API_KEY } -OutFile $localFileName -Uri $url Write-Host "Downloaded `"$($localFileName)`"" $part++ } break } elseif ($jsonStatus.status -eq "working") { # Pause for a few seconds Start-Sleep -Seconds 3 } else { Write-Host $jsonStatus.status break } } while ($true) } else { # Display service reported error Write-Host $jsonResponse.message } } catch { # Display request error Write-Host $_.Exception }