How to create a Web-Based Document Viewer in Python

Setting up web views for documents can be the source of a great many headaches for Python users. That’s why today’s solution will be as simple as calling a function, then using the HTML embed code that it provides. Our total setup time is going to be just a handful of minutes.

This level of simplicity is achieved through use of an API, which we will install now.

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

Our function is named viewer_tools_create_simple, which will also require a new API instance. Set this up in the following manner:

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_convert_api_client
from cloudmersive_convert_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ViewerToolsApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input_file = '/path/to/file' # file | Input file to perform the operation on.
try:
# Create a web-based viewer
api_response = api_instance.viewer_tools_create_simple(input_file)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling ViewerToolsApi->viewer_tools_create_simple: %s\n" % e)

And now input the file path for your document. Moments later you will have your embed code. Effortless.