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Business Card template

The business-card template renders a business image as a PNG. POST a JSON payload to the endpoint below and you receive a CDN URL in the response.

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Endpoint

POST https://app.html2img.com/api/v1/templates/business-card
X-API-Key: <your-api-key>
Content-Type: application/json

Authentication uses the X-API-Key header. See the authentication docs for details on issuing and rotating keys.

Inputs

The full set of inputs the template accepts:

Name	Type	Required	Description	Example
`name`	string	Yes	Display name for the rendered subject.	`Margaret Lin`
`title`	string	No	Main headline shown in the image.	`Senior Production Engineer`
`company`	string	No	Text value for the company.	`Halberd Software`
`email`	string	No	Text value for the email.	`[email protected]`
`phone`	string	No	Text value for the phone.	`+1 (415) 555-0142`
`website`	string	No	Text value for the website.	`halberdsoft.com`
`logo_url`	url	No	URL of the logo to include in the rendered image.	`-`
`accent_color`	string	No	Hex colour code for the accent.	`#0F766E`
`layout_variant`	enum (classic \| minimal \| bold)	No	One of the supported layout variant values listed below.	`classic`

Enum values

layout_variant accepts one of: classic , minimal , bold .

Defaults

Defaults applied automatically when not overridden in the request:

Option	Default value
`width`	`1050`
`height`	`600`

Code examples

curl -X POST https://app.html2img.com/api/v1/templates/business-card \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"Margaret Lin","title":"Senior Production Engineer","company":"Halberd Software","email":"[email protected]","phone":"+1 (415) 555-0142","website":"halberdsoft.com","accent_color":"#0F766E","layout_variant":"classic"}'

<?php
$response = \Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http::withHeaders([
    'X-API-Key' => 'YOUR_API_KEY',
])->post('https://app.html2img.com/api/v1/templates/business-card', ['name' => 'Margaret Lin', 'title' => 'Senior Production Engineer', 'company' => 'Halberd Software', 'email' => '[email protected]', 'phone' => '+1 (415) 555-0142', 'website' => 'halberdsoft.com', 'accent_color' => '#0F766E', 'layout_variant' => 'classic']);

$url = $response->json('url');

const response = await fetch('https://app.html2img.com/api/v1/templates/business-card', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'X-API-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "name": "Margaret Lin",
    "title": "Senior Production Engineer",
    "company": "Halberd Software",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "+1 (415) 555-0142",
    "website": "halberdsoft.com",
    "accent_color": "#0F766E",
    "layout_variant": "classic"
}),
});

const { url } = await response.json();

import requests

response = requests.post(
    'https://app.html2img.com/api/v1/templates/business-card',
    headers={'X-API-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'},
    json={'name': 'Margaret Lin', 'title': 'Senior Production Engineer', 'company': 'Halberd Software', 'email': '[email protected]', 'phone': '+1 (415) 555-0142', 'website': 'halberdsoft.com', 'accent_color': '#0F766E', 'layout_variant': 'classic'},
)

url = response.json()['url']

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Response

A successful render returns:

{
 "success": true,
 "id": "abc123",
 "url": "https://i.html2img.com/abc123.png",
 "credits_remaining": 1234,
 "template": "business-card"
}

The url field is a CDN URL for the rendered PNG. credits_remaining tracks your monthly quota. Shared response fields are documented in the API parameters reference.

Errors

The template endpoint returns the following error responses:

422 Validation failed

Returned when one or more inputs fail validation. The errors object lists field-specific messages.

{
 "success": false,
 "error": "validation_failed",
 "errors": {
 "title": ["The title field is required."]
 }
}

404 Template not found

Returned with {"code": "template_not_found"} if the slug is not registered. Check the template list for current slugs.

401 Unauthorised

Missing or invalid API key. See the authentication docs.

429 Too many requests

You have hit the rate limit or used your monthly credits. The pricing page covers higher-volume plans.

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