ebookmaker is a Python 3 script that takes a JSON book description and a bunch of HTML files, and builds an eBook. The script generates the boring part of the eBook metadata, e.g. the index that appears both in contents.opf, toc.ncx, and in an HTML page.
The script depends on the beautifulsoup4 package.
To allow the script to generate the various tables of contents (= content.opf, toc.ncx, and the HTML index; the last one may be done by hand, if desired) the HTML content must follow a couple of simple rules:
- Use header tags consistently:
<h1>for section/chapter,<h2>for subsection,<h3>for subsubsection. - Use the
"id"attribute to identify the entry in the index.
In the future I'll document the JSON book description format, but for now there are a couple of books in the examples directory. Enter the examples directory and run the script like this to build EPUB files:
$ python3 ../../ebookmaker BOOK.json
The 'recipes' directory is also interesting. There you'll find Python scripts that download content not available in ebook format, but as HTML, format it and call on ebookmaker to assemble in a nice ebook.
ebookmaker [-h] [-o OUTPUT] ebookData
positional arguments:
ebookData JSON file containing the ebook information.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-o OUTPUT, Name of the output file.
--output OUTPUT