CLI to download and generate books from O'Reilly | Safaribooks.
This package is exclusively intended for personal use. Its purpose is to complement your O'Reilly membership facilitating content in the format of .epub to read on your e-reader.
You need to hold an active account in O'Reilly | Safaribooks to be able to download books.
$ docker pull jennyfive/obooks
$ docker run -it --rm -v "$(pwd)/obooks/:/usr/app/books/" jennyfive/obooks -b "<BOOK ID>" -c "<COOKIES>"The book will be available in the new obooks folder in the current directory.
$ ./cli.js -b "<BOOKID>" -c "<OREILLY_COOKIE>"The downloaded books will be stored in the folder obooks/books inside the cloned project.
After the first successful login/book download through obooks, a session.json file containing auth cookies will be written in the root of the project. Any future downloads will not require passing the cookies to the command.
$ ./cli.js -b "<BOOKID>"The first time you're using obooks, you'll need to pass your logged in cookies in the command. Check the chrome developer tools while logged in to O'Reilly, you'll see a 'cookie' header sent in the 'Request Headers', this is the long string you should pass in in the obooks cookie flag -c "<cookie>:
$ ./cli.js -b "9781788623872" -c "LONG STRING OF COOKIES HERE"
note: if using Windows, run it under nodejs:
$ node cli.js -b "9781492077992" -c "LONG STRING OF COOKIES HERE"
-b <bookid>: This is the book identification in O'Reilly. You can find it in the url of the book you'd like to download. For this example, the book id would be: 9781260440249.
-c <cookie>: O'Reilly session cookie.