Generate EPUB books from HTML with simple API in Node.js.
This epub library will generate temp html and download images in your DOMs, then generate the epub book you want.
It's very fast, except the time to download images from the web.
Firstly, make sure you have zip installed. then cd to your project dir, run:
npm install epub-gen
put this in your code:
var Epub = require("epub-gen")
new Epub(option [, output]).promise.then(function(){
console.log("Ebook Generated Successfully!")
}, function(err){
console.error("Failed to generate Ebook because of ", err)
})-
title: Title of the book -
author: Name of the author for the book, string or array both Okay, eg."Alice"or["Alice", "Bob"] -
publisher: Publisher name (optional) -
cover: Book cover image, File path (absolute path) or web url both ok. eg."http://abc.com/book-cover.jpg"or"/User/Alice/images/book-cover.jpg" -
outputOut put path(absolute path), you can also path output as the second argument when usenew, eg:new Epub(options, output) -
css: If you really hate our css, you can pass css string to replace our default style. eg:"body{background: #000}" -
lang: Language of the book in 2 letters code (optional). If not specified, will fallback toen. -
appendChapterTitles: Automatically append the chapter title at the beginning of each contents. You can disable that by specifyingfalse. -
customOpfTemplatePath: Optional. For advanced customizations: absolute path to an OPF template. -
customNcxTocTemplatePath: Optional. For advanced customizations: absolute path to a NCX toc template. -
customHtmlTocTemplatePath: Optional. For advanced customizations: absolute path to a HTML toc template. -
content: Book Chapters content. It's should be an array of objects. eg.[{title: "Chapter 1",data: "<div>..."}, {data: ""},...]Within each chapter object:
title: optional, Chapter titleauthor: optional, if each book author is different, you can fill it.data: HTML String of the chapter content. image paths should be absolute path (should start with "http" or "https"), so that they could be downloaded. With the upgrade is possible to use images that are in place (for this the path must start with file: //)
if you don't want pass the output pass the output path as the second argument, you should specify output path as option.outpath
var Epub = require("epub-gen")
var option = {
title: "Simple Book", // *Required, title of the book.
author: "Me", // *Required, name of the author.
publisher: "Demo Inc.", // optional
cover: "http://demo.com/url-to-cover-image.jpg", // Url or File path both ok.
content: [
{
title: "Chapter 1", // Optional
author: "author", // Optional
data: "<h1>Learning JavaScript Design Patterns</h1>"
+"<div lang=\"en\"><div>.....</div>" // pass html string
},
{
title: "Chapter 2",
data: "<html><head> ......</html>"
},
{
...
}
...
]
};
new Epub(option, "/path/to/book/file/path.epub");
Simple html from: http://addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/book/
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