pyebook

About

pyebook extract content and meta informations on ebook files. It relies on the .epub standards by the idpdf

Installation

from pip::

pip install --upgrade pyebook

from easy_install::

easy_install -ZU pyebook

Requirements

pyebook requires beautifulsoup4

Usage

Import::

from pyebook.pyebook import Book

Initialize the book object::

my_book = Book('my_ebook_file.epub')

Return the book metadata::

my_book.metadata

Load the book content::

my_book.load_content()

Return the book content::

my_book.content

All the returned objects are dictionaries or dictionaries list like::

# metadata
{
    'date': <publication date>, 
    'identifier': <book identifier (generally the ISBN)>, 
    'creator': <book author>, 
    'language': <book language>, 
    'title': <book title>'
}

# content (list of dictionaries)
[
  { 
    'part_name': <book part name>, 
    'source_url': <book part file url>, 
    'content_source': <book part html source code>, 
    'content_source_text': <book part content>
  }
]

Links

• PyPI
• GitHub