https://github.com/titusz/ibooks

Extract cover and metadata from iBooks Author files
https://github.com/titusz/ibooks

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Extract cover and metadata from iBooks Author files

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/titusz/ibooks
• Owner: titusz
• License: bsd-2-clause
• Created: 2013-06-19T20:26:14.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-07-29T21:42:59.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-10T03:48:31.029Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 121 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
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ibooks - Extract cover and metadata from iBooks Author files

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*"ibooks" is a small python module that can be used to extract cover images

and basic metadata from iBooks Author files.*

- **Author:** *Titusz *

- **PyPi:** http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ibooks

- **Source Code**: http://github.com/titusz/ibooks

- **License**: BSD

Installation

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Use easy_install or pip::

    pip install ibooks

Commandline Usage

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With the commandline script you can print metadata to the console and extract

the cover from .ibooks files::

    ibooks my-ibooks-author-file.ibooks

Library Usage

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Here is how you can use 'ibooks' as a lib in your code::

    >>>from ibooks import iBooks

    >>>ibook = iBooks('my-ibooks-author.ibooks')

    # Get some metadata

    >>> ibook.title

    "Title of iBooks file"

    >>>ibook.author

    "Authors Name"

    # Extract cover

    >>>ibook.cover

    /temp-path-to/OPS/assets/images/cover-image.jpg

    # Be sure to process the image file before the "ibook" object is released