RenderCV API wrapper

This small project provides a REST API wrapper around the RenderCV tool. It accepts a YAML file (upload) plus optional JSON options and returns the generated PDF.

Endpoints

• POST /render — form upload: field file (YAML), optional form field options (JSON string). Returns application/pdf.

Quick start

1. Create a virtual environment and install dependencies:

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Install RenderCV (the actual renderer). This project expects either:

• a Python package named rendercv that exposes a render function or RenderCV class
• OR a CLI command rendercv available on PATH

Install RenderCV as appropriate for your environment. This README cannot install it for you.

3. Run the API server (WSGI / Flask):

Using the Flask built-in server for quick testing:

FLASK_APP=main.py flask run --host=0.0.0.0 --port=9000

Or run in production with Gunicorn (WSGI):

gunicorn -w 2 -b 0.0.0.0:9000 main:app

4. Example request (curl):

curl -X POST \
  -F "file=@cv.yml;type=text/yaml" \
  -F "options={\"template\":\"modern\"}" \
  http://localhost:9000/render --output out.pdf

Notes

• The wrapper first attempts to import a rendercv python module and call render or RenderCV().render().
• If that fails it looks for a rendercv CLI binary and invokes it with --input and --output plus converted flags for options.
• The temporary files are stored in a temp directory; FileResponse is used to stream the PDF back.

If you want me to wire this to a specific version of RenderCV (showing how to call its API), provide the RenderCV import/API docs or paste the package's API surface and I will adapt the wrapper to call it directly.