LaTeX Tools

The LaTeX provider turns LaTeX source into a rendered PDF and lets you search the TeX Live packages available to the compiler. Use it in a workflow whenever you need to generate documents (reports, invoices, papers) from templated LaTeX or discover which packages you can \usepackage before compiling.

Overview

Operations

Configuration

latex_compile

No secrets or API keys are required for this tool.

latex_search_packages

No secrets or API keys are required for this tool.

Outputs

latex_compile

• data (json) — Compiled PDF object.
  • data.pdfBase64 (string) — Base64-encoded PDF bytes.
  • data.dataUrl (string) — Base64 data URL of the PDF (data:application/pdf;base64,...).
• metadata (json) — Compilation metadata.
  • metadata.compiler (string) — LaTeX compiler used for the build.
  • metadata.status (number) — HTTP status code returned by the service.

latex_search_packages

• data (json) — Array of TeX Live packages matching the query (each package object includes fields such as name and shortdesc).
• metadata (json) — Search metadata.
  • metadata.count (number) — Number of matching packages.
  • metadata.status (number) — HTTP status code returned by the service.

YAML Example

latex_1:
  type: latex
  name: "LaTeX"
  inputs:
    operation: "latex_compile"
    content: "\\documentclass{article}\\begin{document}Hello, world!\\end{document}"
    compiler: "pdflatex"
    resources: []
  connections:
    outgoing:
      - target: next-block-id

Tips

• No authentication is needed — the provider calls the public latex.ytotech.com service, so there is no API key to configure. Be mindful that document content is sent to that external service.
• The compiled PDF is returned as base64. Use {{latex_1.data.pdfBase64}} to attach the raw bytes, or {{latex_1.data.dataUrl}} for an inline data:application/pdf URL in downstream blocks.
• For multi-file documents (bibliographies, images, included .tex files), pass them via resources as [{"path":"refs.bib","content":"..."}]; the main document you put in content is automatically marked as the entry point.
• If a compile fails because of a missing package, run latex_search_packages with a query like tikz first to confirm the package is available in TeX Live before adding \usepackage.