- Easily tailor your CV by adding/removing sections by wrapping them with HTML tags with uniquely named classes (using Beautiful Soup)
- Create PDF versions of your CV (using pandoc and weasyprint)
- Insert page breaks into PDF output using
<div class="page-break"></div> - CV also looks nice when used as a webpage
- Sample files:
cv.pdf: PDF version of the samplecode.py: cleans up code and creates PDF outputstyle.css: provides styling for PDF outputs when using weasyprint, defines the page break tagmain.md: sample input fileclean.md: cleaned sample
import re
import subprocess
from pathlib import Path
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, Comment
# Wrap double space in <pre>, otherwise they will be removed
soup = BeautifulSoup(Path('./main.md').read_text().replace(' ', "<pre> </pre>"))
# Remove HTML comments enclosed in <!-- -->
for comment in soup.find_all(string=lambda text:isinstance(text, Comment)):
comment.extract()
# Remove certain sections if you want to, according to their class
for attr in [
# 'paragraph',
# 'education',
# 'papers',
'skills',
]:
for item in soup.find_all(attrs={'class': attr}):
item.extract()
# Remove unnecessary HTML code
output = str(soup)
for attr in ['<html>', '</html>', '<head>', '</head>', '<body>', '</body>', '<pre>', '</pre>']:
output = output.replace(attr, '')
# Create a clean output .md file
clean_file = Path('./clean.md')
clean_file.write_text(output, encoding=None, errors=None)
# Convert the .md to .pdf
print(subprocess.Popen(f'pandoc {clean_file} --css style.css --pdf-engine=weasyprint --metadata title="" --from markdown+startnum -o cv.pdf', cwd=Path('.').absolute(), shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).stdout.read())@media print {
@page {
size: A4 portrait;
@bottom-center {
content: counter(page) " of " counter(pages);
}
}
}
html {
font-size: 8pt;
font-family: 'Palatino';
}
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
a {
text-decoration: none;
color: rgb(44, 44, 128);
}
h1 {
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
}
h2 {
font-size: 10pt;
margin-top: -2pt;
border-bottom: 0.75pt solid;
border-bottom-color: black;
}
h4 {
margin-top: 4pt;
margin-bottom: -5pt;
}
ul,
ol {
padding-left: 1rem;
}
.page-break {
page-break-after: always;
}<style>
.gold {
color: rgb(218, 165, 32);
}
.year {
float: right;
}
.ongoing {
opacity: 0.0;
}
</style>
<center>
<h1>Your Name</h1>
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">✉ [email protected]</a>
|
<a href="https://x.com/your_x_twitter">𝕏 your_x_twitter</a>
|
<a href="https://yourdomain.com">👤 yourdomain.com</a>
</center>
<!-- Wrap different sections in HTML elements with unique classes to later allow adding/removing sections using BeautifulSoup -->
<p class="paragraph" style="text-align: justify;">
## Paragraph
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
</p>
<span class="education">
## Education
- <span class="year">2024 - <span class="ongoing">2024</span></span>
**Degree 1.** Institute. Host: *Your Host*
Some description.
More text. <!-- Comment for yourself -->
- <span class="year">2023 - 2024</span>
**Degree 2.** Institute. Host: *Your Host*
<span class="gold">🏆</span> Award
- <span class="year">2023 - 2023</span>
**Degree 3.** Institute. Host: *Your Host*
- Sub-list.
- Another item.
</span>
<span class="papers">
## Papers
1. <span class="year">**<u>CONF'24</u>**</span>
**[Paper 1](https://www.link.com)**
Authors: <u>Your Name</u>, Friend's Name
In: *Proceedings* <span class="details">
<span class="gold">🏆</span> Award 1
<span class="gold">🏆</span> Award 2</span>
2. <span class="year">**<u>CONF'24</u>**</span>
**[Paper 2](https://www.link.com)**
Authors: <u>Your Name</u>, Friend's Name
In: *Proceedings*
</span>
<div class="page-break"></div>
<span class="skills">
## Skills
- Skill 1
- Sub-skill 1
- Sub-skill 2
- Skill 2
- Skill 3
</span><style>
.gold {
color: rgb(218, 165, 32);
}
.year {
float: right;
}
.ongoing {
opacity: 0.0;
}
</style>
<center>
<h1>Your Name</h1>
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">✉ [email protected]</a>
|
<a href="https://x.com/your_x_twitter">𝕏 your_x_twitter</a>
|
<a href="https://yourdomain.com">👤 yourdomain.com</a>
</center>
<p class="paragraph" style="text-align: justify;">
## Paragraph
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
</p>
<span class="education">
## Education
- <span class="year">2024 - <span class="ongoing">2024</span></span>
**Degree 1.** Institute. Host: *Your Host*
Some description.
More text.
- <span class="year">2023 - 2024</span>
**Degree 2.** Institute. Host: *Your Host*
<span class="gold">🏆</span> Award
- <span class="year">2023 - 2023</span>
**Degree 3.** Institute. Host: *Your Host*
- Sub-list.
- Another item.
</span>
<span class="papers">
## Papers
1. <span class="year">**<u>CONF'24</u>**</span>
**[Paper 1](https://www.link.com)**
Authors: <u>Your Name</u>, Friend's Name
In: *Proceedings* <span class="details">
<span class="gold">🏆</span> Award 1
<span class="gold">🏆</span> Award 2</span>
2. <span class="year">**<u>CONF'24</u>**</span>
**[Paper 2](https://www.link.com)**
Authors: <u>Your Name</u>, Friend's Name
In: *Proceedings*
</span>
<div class="page-break"></div>
<span class="skills">
## Skills
- Skill 1
- Sub-skill 1
- Sub-skill 2
- Skill 2
- Skill 3
</span>