audible-cli is a command line interface for the Audible package. Both are written in python.

audible-cli needs at least Python 3.6 and Audible v0.4.1.

It depends on the following packages:

• aiofiles
• audible
• click
• colorama (on windows machines)
• httpx
• Pillow
• tabulate
• toml
• tqdm

This package is not on PyPi at this moment. To install audible-cli you have to clone it from this repo.

git clone https://github.com/mkb79/audible-cli.git
cd audible-cli
pip install .

audible-cli uses a config dir where it stores and search for all necessary files.

If the AUDIBLE_CONFIG_DIR environment variable is set, it uses the value as config dir.

Otherwise it will use a folder depending on the operating system.

To override this behavior, you can call audible or audible-quickstart with the -c PATH_TO_CONF_DIR option. You have to do this on each call. So if you want to make use of a custom folder best practice is to use the environment variable method.

The config data will be stored in the toml format as config.toml.

It has a main section named APP and sections for each profile you created named profile.<profile_name>

audible-cli make use of profiles. Each profile contains the name of the corresponding auth file and the country code for the audible marketplace. If you have audiobooks on multiple marketplaces, you have to create a profile for each one with the same auth file.

In the main section of the config file, a primary profile is defined. This profile is used, if no other is specified. You can call audible or audible-quickstart with the -P PROFILE_NAME option, to select another profile.

Like the config file, auth files are stored in the config dir too. If you protected your auth file with a password call audible or audible-quickstart with the -p PASSWORD option, to provide the password.

If the auth file is encrypted and you don’t provide the password, you will be asked for it with a „hidden“ input field.

Use the audible-quickstart command in your shell to create your first config, profile and auth file. audible-quickstart runs on interactive mode, so you have to answer multiple questions to finish.

Call audible -h to let you show all main subcommands. At this time, there are the manage and download subcommand. The manage command has multiple subcommands. So take a look with the audible manage -h and audible manage <subcommand> -h.

More informations will be coming soon.