NAME

ebread - EPUB dumper

SYNOPSIS

ebread [options] epub

INSTALLING

ebread depends on the following Raku modules, which can be installed via zef:

• File::Temp

• File::Which

• XML

ebread depends on the following programs to be installed on your system:

• unzip

and at least one of the following text browsers installed:

• elinks

• links

• lynx

• w3m

ebread can be installed via zef.

zef install .

DESCRIPTION

ebread is a simple script/program that extracts and dumps the XHTML contents of a given EPUB ebook archive. It accomplishes this by taking advantage of the dump feature found in many text-mode web browsers. The output should be suitable for piping into other programs for further processing.

OPTIONS

• -D|--dumper=dumper

  Specify the dumper to use for text formatting. The following are valid options, as long as the respective browser is installed on your system:

  • elinks

  • links

  • lynx

  • w3m

  If this option is not specified, ebread will just use the first dumper it finds on your system.

• -w|--width=width

  Specify the output width. Must be at least 10, at most 512. Defaults to 80.

• -m|--metadata

  Instead of dumping the text contents of an EPUB, dump its metadata.

• -x|--extract=dir

  Instead of dumping the text contents of an EPUB, extract the EPUB's archive contents to dir.

• -h|--help

  Print usage message and exit.

• -v|--version

  Print version/copyright information and exit.

AUTHOR

Written by Samuel Young, samyoung12788@gmail.com.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2024, Samuel Young

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.

SEE ALSO

elinks(1), links(1), lynx(1), w3m(1), unzip(1)