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I built https://github.com/danielwestendorf/pdf-bot-pro a few days ago, a scalable 1-click heroku deploy rewrite of pdf-bot. It's fully functional, except I built the background queuing on Faktory, and there is not working Faktory add-on available for heroku yet (and thus, no real promotion of the project yet). You could set up a faktory server elsewhere and define the URL as an ENV var and it would work today.

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Nice thanks for the link. So if I'm understanding correctly, your app essentially runs as a standalone api, receiving pdf requests, queueing them, processing them, then hitting a specific webhook url on success for other systems to then query the pdf tool to get the resulting pdf.

This is approximately how I was thinking of settings thing up as well, so thanks for this!

Yup, exactly.

Nice, thanks for sharing! I built a simple scraper and I need to add background processing etc:

https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper

Will dig into your code to see what I can learn.

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