destiny-ebook-lore-hacksession

Quick "hack session" style Destiny Lore Ebook generator (EPUB format).

Requirements

This software requires the following to be run

1. Python 2.7 (https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/)
2. pip (https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing)
3. jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/)
4. curl (https://curl.haxx.se/)
5. A created Bungie app credential (https://www.bungie.net/en/Application/Create)

Running

1. Install all requirements
2. Make a note of the created API Key
3. Install all Python dependencies by running

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run the retrieveAndGenerateGrimoire.sh script, providing it the Bungie API key as a parameter

./retrieveAndGenerateGrimoire.sh <API_KEY>

After execution, you should find a destinyGrimoire.epub file on the same folder.

Details on what is happening

When running the script above, the following happens:

1. The Destiny Grimoire is downloaded (using curl) from Bungie using the provided API Key.
2. Using jq, the json Grimoire is "distilled" to the attributes that are of relevance for creating the epub. The result is stored under destinyGrimoire.json.
3. A folder images is created (it is deleted first if it exists)
4. All images described in the grimoire are downloaded to said images folder.
5. The epub is generated using all the previously retrieved resources and Python.