HebrewBooksBot

A bot that allows you to search and browse books from hebrewbooks.org.

• Telegram: @HeBooksBot
• WhatsApp: +1 (929) 647-6710 (Countries limited)

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Features

• Search for books by title and author
• Browse books by category, date or letter
• Browse masechtos
• Instant Reading Mode as Image or PDF
• Download and share books
• Jump to page
• Support for Hebrew and English

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TODO:

• Adding support for WhatsApp!
• Add support for text in reading mode
• Add support for search by OCR
• Allows users to change their language
• Allows users to save their favorite books and bookmarks

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Running the bot

1. Clone the repository
2. Copy .env.example to .env and fill in the values

With Docker:

docker compose up

Directly:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 tg/app.py  # for Telegram
python3 wa/app.py  # for WhatsApp