Exporting only a specific set of pages in Java with Netty

import io.netty.bootstrap.Bootstrap;
import io.netty.channel.*;
import io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoopGroup;
import io.netty.channel.socket.SocketChannel;
import io.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioSocketChannel;
import io.netty.handler.codec.http.*;
import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;

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

EventLoopGroup group = new NioEventLoopGroup();
try {
    Bootstrap b = new Bootstrap();
    b.group(group)
        .channel(NioSocketChannel.class)
        .handler(new ChannelInitializer<SocketChannel>() {
            @Override
            public void initChannel(SocketChannel ch) {
                ChannelPipeline p = ch.pipeline();
                p.addLast(new HttpClientCodec());
                p.addLast(new HttpObjectAggregator(1024 * 1024));
            }
        });

    Channel ch = b.connect("api.pdfshift.io", 443).sync().channel();

    FullHttpRequest request = new DefaultFullHttpRequest(
        HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.POST, "/v3/convert/pdf");
    
    request.headers().set(HttpHeaderNames.HOST, "api.pdfshift.io");
    request.headers().set("X-API-Key", apiKey);
    request.headers().set(HttpHeaderNames.CONTENT_TYPE, "application/json");
    
    String payload = "{\n" +
        "  \"source\": \"https://www.example.com\",\n" +
        "  \"pages\": \"1-3\"\n" +
        "}";
    
    request.content().writeBytes(payload.getBytes(CharsetUtil.UTF_8));
    request.headers().setInt(HttpHeaderNames.CONTENT_LENGTH, request.content().readableBytes());

    ChannelFuture f = ch.writeAndFlush(request);
    f.addListener(ChannelFutureListener.CLOSE);
    
    // Handle response and save PDF...
    
    System.out.println("The PDF document was generated and saved to result.pdf");
} finally {
    group.shutdownGracefully();
}