Generates a metadata.xml
file for an EPUB from various online sources, given a few identifiers.
Currently supports the following providers:
Provider | Input |
---|---|
OpenLibrary | ISBN |
You can install it from NPM
npm i -g epub-metadata-generator
You can use the provided command-line-executable:
generate-epub-xml 9780596101190 /tmp/9780596101190.xml
cat /tmp/9780596101190.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<metadata>
<dc:identifier opf:scheme="ISBN-13">9780596101190</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier opf:scheme="ISBN-10">0596101198</dc:identifier>
<dc:creator opf:role="aut">Dan Woods</dc:creator>
<dc:creator opf:role="aut">Gautam Guliani</dc:creator>
<dc:title id="title">Open Source for the Enterprise</dc:title>
<dc:title id="subtitle">Managing Risks, Reaping Rewards</dc:title>
<meta refines="#subtitle" property="title-type">subtitle</meta>
<dc:language>eng</dc:language>
<dc:publisher>O'Reilly Media, Inc.</dc:publisher>
</metadata>
You can use this file in pandoc
directly:
pandoc input.html --epub-metadata=/tmp/9780596101190.xml file.epub
Alternatively, you can use the NPM package programatically as well:
const E = require('epub-metadata-generator')
E.write(filepath, ISBN);
Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE file for details.
Some of the code in openlibrary.js
is based on the node-isbn-catalogue package, which was based on palmerabollo/node-isbn. Both are under AGPL.