Command line utilities for working with epub files (Haskell)
A suite of command-line utilities for creating and manipulating epub book files. Included are: epubmeta, epubname, epubzip. This software uses the epub-metadata library, also available on Hackage.
epubmeta is a command-line utility for examining and editing epub book metadata. With it you can export, import and edit the raw OPF Package XML document for a given book. Or simply dump the metadata to stdout for viewing in a friendly format.
Here's an example of epubmeta output:
$ epubmeta Kelly_Kessel_Lethem-NinetyPercentOfEverything.epub
package
version: 2.0
unique-identifier: calibre_id
identifier
id: calibre_id
scheme: calibre
text: b1026732-69a5-4a05-a8d9-a1701685f6fa
identifier
scheme: ISBN
text: 1-590620-00-3
title: Ninety Percent of Everything
language: en-us
contributor
text: calibre (0.5.1) [http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net]
file-as: calibre
role: bkp
creator
text: James Patrick Kelly
file-as: Kelly, James Patrick
role: aut
creator
text: John Kessel
role: aut
creator
text: Jonathan Lethem
role: aut
date: 2001-03-25T00:00:00
publisher: www.Fictionwise.com
subject: Science Fiction/Fantasy
epubname is a command-line utility for renaming epub ebook files based on their OPF Package metadata. It tries to use author names and title info to construct a sensible name.
Using it looks like this:
$ epubname poorly-named-book.epub
poorly-named-book.epub -> WattsPeter-Blindsight_2006.epub
$ epubname another-poorly-named-book.epub
another-poorly-named-book.epub -> Kelly_Kessel_Lethem-NinetyPercentOfEverything.epub
epubzip is a handy utility for zipping up the files that comprise an epub into an .epub zip file. Using the same technology as epubname, it can try to make a meaningful filename for the book.
Binaries
- epub-tools is available for Arch Linux from the AUR
- Download binary distributions for generic Linux, OSX and Windows from this directory
Getting source for development
- Download the cabalized source package from Hackage
- Get the source with git:
$ git clone https://github.com/dino-/epub-tools.git - Get the source with stack:
$ stack unpack epub-tools - If you're just looking, browse the source
Once you have source, building the usual way:
$ stack build
$ stack test
$ stack haddock
Dino Morelli <dino@ui3.info>