Convert safaribooksonline ebook to epub and Kindle mobi format
WARNING: use at your own risk.
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If you want Kindle mobi output, download kindlegen from Amazon and put the binary somewhere in PATH.
If you only need epub books this step can be skipped.
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Clone the safaribooks repo, let's say to
safaribooks/directory. -
Make sure you have Python 2 installed (Tested version Python 2.7) then run:
pip install safaribooks/safaribooks is the folder you checkout the code.
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Download a book.
safaribooks -u USER/EMAIL -p PASSWORD -b BOOK_ID download-epub.
BOOK_ID is the id in url such as 9781617291920 in https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/real-world-machine-learning/9781617291920/kindle_split_011.html.
An epub and a mobi file will be generated.
This should work no matter platform you're on as no dependencies other than docker needs to be installed.
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Run
docker build -t safaribooks . -
Run
docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd)/converted:/app/converted safaribooks -u USER/EMAIL -p PASSWORD -b BOOK_ID downloadand wait for it to complete -
The .epub and .mobi should now be in the folder
convertedof your current working directory.
usage: safaribooks [-h] [-o OUTPUT_DIRECTORY] [-u USER] [-p PASSWORD] [-c COOKIE]
[-b BOOK_ID]
{download-epub,download,convert-to-mobi} ...
Crawl Safari Books Online book content
positional arguments:
{download-epub,download,convert-to-mobi}
download-epub Download as epub
download Download as epub, and convert to mobi
convert-to-mobi Convert existing epub file to mobi.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-o OUTPUT_DIRECTORY, --output-directory OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
Directory where converted files are located / should
be placed
-u USER, --user USER Safari Books Online user / e-mail address
-p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
Safari Books Online password
-b BOOK_ID, --book-id BOOK_ID
Safari Books Online book ID
-c COOKIE, --cookie COOKIE
Safari Books Online Cookie. This filed can be retrieved by
using Chrome and copying request as curl. Cookie input should
be included in ''.
Example:
'BrowserCookie=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX; sessionid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX;' etc.
Create an issue if you find it does not work!
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