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Save your PDF online and get back a URL in C# with HttpClient

In this guide, we'll show you how to save your PDF online and get back a URL using C# and the HttpClient library.

When generating PDFs, you might want to store them in cloud storage and get a URL to access them later.

using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

// You can get an API key at https://pdfshift.io
var apiKey = "sk_xxxxxxxxxxxx";

var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("X-API-Key", apiKey);

var payload = new
{
    source = "https://www.example.com",
    // Save PDF to cloud storage and get URL
    output = new
    {
        type = "url",
        url = "https://your-storage.com/"
    }
};

var json = System.Text.Json.JsonSerializer.Serialize(payload);
var content = new StringContent(json, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");

var response = await client.PostAsync("https://api.pdfshift.io/v3/convert/pdf", content);

// Handle errors:
if (response.StatusCode >= System.Net.HttpStatusCode.BadRequest)
{
    throw new Exception($"Request failed with status code {response.StatusCode}");
}

var result = await response.Content.ReadAsByteArrayAsync();

System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes("result.pdf", result);

Console.WriteLine("The PDF document was generated and saved to result.pdf");

This allows you to store PDFs in cloud storage and access them via URLs.

For further details on the output property and its usage, please refer to our dedicated documentation.

We hope this guide was helpful. If you have any questions or noticed any issues on the code above,
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