Pubsie

A JavaScript package for parsing EPUB files and extracting their contents. This package provides a convenient way to extract metadata, chapters, and other resources from EPUB files in your JavaScript applications.

Usage/Examples

const pubsie = require("pubsie");

let pub = new pubsie('path/to/epub');

pub.on("error", (err) => {
  console.log(err.message);

  if (err.data.name == "NoNcxError") {
    // ... process error
  };
});

pub.parse(); // always call after event listener

pub.buildCache('path/to/write/location') // build a cache of parsed data

console.log(pub.epub) // .epub property stores parsed data

Installation

Install pubsie with npm

  npm i pubsie

Running Tests

To run tests, run the following command

in tests directory, create a data directory and place epub files inside

tests
├───data
│   ├───moby-dick.epub
│   └───dracula.epub
└───global

  npm run test

Important

all epubs for testing are derived from Project Gutenberg

License

Pubsie is provided under the MIT license

Author

• Arad Fadaei @downmoto