chordpro-epub

Simple script to create a songbook from a list of chordpro files.

Installing

Download the latest wheel from the build artifacts, or install with pip

$ pip install chopro-epub

Usage

[user@foo chopro-epub]$ chopro-epub --help
Usage: chopro-epub [OPTIONS] SONG_LIST

  Generate an EPUB songbook from a list of songs.

Arguments:
  SONG_LIST  The path to the file containing the list of songs with one song
             per line.  [required]

Options:
  --output PATH                   The output path for the generated EPUB
                                  songbook.  [default: songbook.epub]
  --css PATH                      The path to a custom CSS file to style the
                                  EPUB.
  --book-title TEXT               The title of the generated EPUB songbook.
                                  [default: Songbook]
  --book-id TEXT                  An identifier for the EPUB songbook.
                                  [default: songbook31415926535]
  --book-author TEXT              The author or creator of the EPUB songbook.
  --wrap-chords / --no-wrap-chords
                                  If True, chords within the song lyrics will
                                  be wrapped in square brackets.  [default:
                                  no-wrap-chords]
  --verbose / --no-verbose        [default: no-verbose]
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

Example usage

$ chopro-epub list.txt --verbose
$ chopro-epub --css custom.css --book-author "Paul Ferrand" --book-title "My Songbook" list.txt

Custom styling

You can use the default style as a basis to customize the output style.

Contributing

The project is fairly contained. I added pre-commit hooks that you can use by running pre-commit install in this repository. Any contribution is welcome.

Note that I do not wish to host songs here.

Acknowledgements

Thanks a lot to Robert Hoeller for the much improved parsing code!