lyoe / kindlebookmaker

Kindle Book Maker with KindleGen, Make Book from RSS/single URL/directory and so on.

Kindle Book Maker

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This Project is aimed at creating a kindle book generator. Fetching data from internet, then combo all data to a mini .mobi book, what you have to do is just edit profiles and run build commands.

Project structure

Data comes in three way:

• spider fetch a uri content, but you need to config the class the article's title and content
• spider fetch a rss source
• from local file

Here is the structure of project:

After preparing data, The program will filter some dirty data, and transfer remote file link to local file, that means it will download the resources.

Finally, using kindleGen generate book. I had put the kindleGen file to /bin/kindlegen, 28M.

Usage

Try a simple demo:

git clone https://github.com/barretlee/kindleBookMaker.git;
cd kindleBookMaker;
npm install;
node index;
open build/*.mobi;

There are lots of function, simplify to three command.

• generate from rss:

node index --rss http://barretlee.com/rss2.xml
# node index -r http://barretlee.com/rss2.xml

• generate from a uri，-u URL titleQuery ContentQuery FilterRegExp:

node index --uri \
    http://www.barretlee.com/blog/2016/04/28/mini-query/ \
    .post-title \
    .post-content \
    /<div class="shit-spider"[\s\S]+?<\/div>/

• generate from local directory:

node index --dirctory ./src/demo/
# node index -d ./src/demo/

and three other arguments:

• --verbose, -v, detail about kindle generation.
• --help, -h, help.
• -push2kindle, -p, push the builded .mobi file to your kindle.

Configure

var moment = require('moment');

module.exports = {
  // entry: './src/KF8-Demo',
  entry: {
    base: './src/KF8-Demo',
    list: []
  },
  bookInfo: {
    title: "Barret Lee's Personal Website",
    lang: "zh",
    creator: "Barret Lee",
    copyright: "Barret Lee",
    publisher: "",
    coverImage: 'coverImage.png'
  },
  /*option*/
  output: {
    base: './build',
    format: '[name]-' + moment().format('YYYYMMDD')
  },
  /*option for uri*/
  singlePage: {
    title: 'div.title',
    description: 'div.content',
    reg: function(data) {
      return data.replace(/<div class="shit-spider"[\s\S]+?<\/div>/, '');
    }
  },
  /*option*/
  push2kindle: {
    email: '[email protected]',
    password: 'your-email-password',
    kindle: '[email protected]'
  }
};

• entry, can be a String or an Object
  • base, the entry base, where remote file placed.
  • list, it impacts the order of book article list.
• bookInfo, be attention to the coverImage, you should better set a value.
• ouput, optional, default is ./build and [name].
• singlePage, optional, for uri spider
• push2kindle, optional, the kindle param is your device matched email, can be edit at here.

Todo

• generate from markdown file directly.
• fix push2kindle bug, cannot push .mobi format file, i don't konw why.

Relative articles

• http://www.idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-publications.html#sec-item-property-values
• http://www.idpf.org/epub/20/spec/OPF_2.0.1_draft.htm
• http://www.aliciaramirez.com/2014/05/how-to-make-a-kindle-ebook-from-scratch/

LICENSE

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 小胡子哥