ebooklib's Introduction

About EbookLib

EbookLib is a Python library for managing EPUB2/EPUB3 and Kindle files. It's capable of reading and writing EPUB files programmatically (Kindle support is under development).

The API is designed to be as simple as possible, while at the same time making complex things possible too. It has support for covers, table of contents, spine, guide, metadata and etc.

EbookLib is used in Booktype from Sourcefabric, as well as sprits-it!, fanfiction2ebook, viserlalune and Telemeta.

Packages of EbookLib for GNU/Linux are available in Debian and Ubuntu.

Sphinx documentation is generated from the templates in the docs/ directory and made available at http://ebooklib.readthedocs.io

Usage

Reading

import ebooklib
from ebooklib import epub

book = epub.read_epub('test.epub')

for image in book.get_items_of_type(ebooklib.ITEM_IMAGE):
    print image

Writing

from ebooklib import epub

book = epub.EpubBook()

# set metadata
book.set_identifier('id123456')
book.set_title('Sample book')
book.set_language('en')

book.add_author('Author Authorowski')
book.add_author('Danko Bananko', file_as='Gospodin Danko Bananko', role='ill', uid='coauthor')

# create chapter
c1 = epub.EpubHtml(title='Intro', file_name='chap_01.xhtml', lang='hr')
c1.content=u'<h1>Intro heading</h1><p>Zaba je skocila u baru.</p>'

# add chapter
book.add_item(c1)

# define Table Of Contents
book.toc = (epub.Link('chap_01.xhtml', 'Introduction', 'intro'),
             (epub.Section('Simple book'),
             (c1, ))
            )

# add default NCX and Nav file
book.add_item(epub.EpubNcx())
book.add_item(epub.EpubNav())

# define CSS style
style = 'BODY {color: white;}'
nav_css = epub.EpubItem(uid="style_nav", file_name="style/nav.css", media_type="text/css", content=style)

# add CSS file
book.add_item(nav_css)

# basic spine
book.spine = ['nav', c1]

# write to the file
epub.write_epub('test.epub', book, {})