quick-epub

Quickly generate valid EPUB 3.0.1 documents.

This library is based on cyrilis' epub-gen, and is more of a proof-of-concept than an actual library. It was used to learn about the EPUB specification.

Will not

• Validate your passed HTML files. Or anything you pass to it, actually.
• Download images that have links in said HTML files.

Will definitely

• Break. There's almost no error handling.

Installation

npm install quick-epub --save

Usage

var epub = require('quick-epub');

epub.createFile(data)

Creates a file with a given data object.

epub.createFile(data).then(function(){
 console.log('book done.');
}).catch(function(error){
 console.error(error);
});

Data Object

The variables of the data object should be:

• output Filepath/name of file. Default: Some tempDir folder just above the node_modules dir.
• title Title of the book
• author Name of author. Can be either string or array.
• contents Array of chapter objects.
• publisher Whoever published this fantastic EPUB book. (Optional)
• description Self-explanatory. (Optional)
• appendChapterTitles Append the chapter title at the beginning of each chapter. Default: false (Optional)
• dates (Optional) Do you know when this was published/modified? Good. Chuck it in. ISO-8601 format!
  • published
  • modified
• lang Language. Default: en (Optional)
• identifiers
  • isbn10
  • isbn13
  • doi

content is an array filled with chapter objects with the following structure:

{
    id: Number,
    title: String,
    data: String
}

Example

var data = {
 lang: 'engrish',
 title: 'Sample Title',
 author: ['Author One', 'Author Two'],
 publisher: 'Sample Publisher',
 description: 'Something to describe, I guess.',
 contents: [
  {title: 'First Title', data: 'Initial Data', id: 1},
  {title: 'II. 2.', data: 'Second Data', id: 2},
  {title: '3 a.k.a THREE', data: 'Third Lot of Data.', id: 3}
 ],
 identifiers: {
  isbn10: 'this is definitely not a valid ISBN-10 number',
  isbn13: 'nor is this a valid ISBN-13 number',
  doi: 'yep. not valid either.'
 },
 dates: {
  published: new Date().toISOString().split('.')[0]+ 'Z',
  modified: new Date().toISOString().split('.')[0]+ 'Z'
 },
 appendChapterTitles: true,
 output: 'yolo.epub'
};

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 George Rawlinson mailto:george@rawlinson.net.nz

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.