Calibre RPC is a plugin for the e-book manager Calibre to enable Discord Rich Presence.
This project was inspired by Split.
- Displays a browsing message when Calibre is opened, including the number of books in the current library.
- Displays the most recent book and its author opened by Calibre's ebook reader.
- Displays the most recent book and its author opened by Calibre's ebook editor.
- Download the latest release.
- Go into Calibre and select Preferences -> Plugins -> Loan plugin from file -> select the zip you downloaded.
- Restart Calibre.
- Clone this repository and install make.
- Open the repository in Visual Studio Code, or your preferable IDE, and run
make installto get the calibre source or to update your current source. - Set the
CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROMsystem environment variable to a local installation of calibre's source code, which should now be in the directory undercalibre. - Set the
Pathsystem environment variable to your local installation of Calibre, typicallyC:\Program Files\Calibre2. - To build the plugin from source, run
make compileinside the terminal. - To export the plugin as a zip, run
make zip.
To learn more about plugin development, there are quick tutorials found on the calibre website.
- Display the current page out of the total pages calculated by Calibre's ebook reader.
- Display the current file being edited in Calibre's ebook editor.
- Update the size of the library shown by the presence in real-time.
The image found in this README.md originates from Calibre's source. The discord icon used for this plugin is from freepnglogos. This plugin makes use of pypresence to allow a user to showcase their current Calibre activity within Discord.