jenni/obooks

O'Books :books::sparkles: Download books from O'Reilly | Safaribooks

O'BOOKS 📚✨

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.

USAGE

You need to hold an active account in O'Reilly | Safaribooks to be able to download books.

DOCKER

$ 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

$ ./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>"

HOW TO

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"

CLI flags explained

• -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.