PDF format guide

Sample PDF file

One small one-page PDF for testing uploads, downloads, previews and PDF parsing. It opens inline in a browser and its bytes never change. There is only this one PDF, so look elsewhere for multi-page documents, forms or large files. The file is 680 B.

No account or API key is needed. A published v1 file never changes, its SHA-256 is listed in the manifest, and the data is CC0, so you can also commit a copy to your own repository.

application/pdf

Use it

Request an asset

Browser

const response = await fetch("/v1/files/pdf/dataset-summary.pdf");
const payload = await response.arrayBuffer();

curl

curl -fsS https://payloads.mochavi.com/v1/files/pdf/dataset-summary.pdf

Python

from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://payloads.mochavi.com/v1/files/pdf/dataset-summary.pdf") as response:
    payload = response.read()

Published files

1 stable URL

Open explorer
PathMedia typeSize
/v1/files/pdf/dataset-summary.pdfapplication/pdf680 B

Validate the canonical shape with the dataset schema.

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