Backend server for EpubPress.

For clients, see epub-press-clients.

This section is for those who want to simply run epub-press locally. If you want to develop epub-press, see the next section Development Setup.

You may use docker-compose to stand up both the epub-press server and the backing PostgreSQL database.

1. Install Docker
2. docker-compose up server

EpubPress will be running at http://localhost:3000.

Follow these instructions to run epub-press without Docker or develop epub-press.

Clone this repository and install npm dependencies. Use the node version indicated in .nvmrc. See the nvm project for details on Node Version Manager.

$ git clone https://github.com/haroldtreen/epub-press
$ cd epub-press
$ # optional nvm use
$ npm install

You may develop this project backed by a PostgreSQL or SQLite database (the default for development and test environments).

1. Install Docker
   1. With Sqlite echo DB_DIALECT=sqlite > .env.local
   2. With postgres docker-compose up postgres
2. npm start

Run database migrations one time:

npm run db:migrate

EpubPress will be running at http://localhost:3000 and reload upon file changes.

To build a version of EpubPress that talks to a local server, see epub-press-chrome.

npm run test:integration   # Test API + full article extraction
npm run test:models        # Test models
npm run test:unit          # Test regular JS
npm run test               # Test all of the above

Changes should be accompanied by tests. All tests located in /tests.

API Documentation is here.

$ # create a book
$ curl http://localhost:3000/api/v1/books \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -X POST \
 -d '{
    "title": "A title",
    "description": "A description",
    "author": "An author",
    "genre": "ebooks",
    "coverPath": "",
    "urls": [
        "https://epub.press"
    ]
}'

{"id":"RXyGKmTq7"}
$ # download the book as epub file 
$ curl -o book.epub http://localhost:3000/api/v1/books/RXyGKmTq7/download
$ # or download as mobi file
$ curl -o book.mobi "http://localhost:3000/api/v1/books/RXyGKmTq7/download?filetype=mobi"
$ ls
book.epub

Build argument (in Dockerfile):

converter - leave as "calibre" to download and use Calibre for MOBI conversion (the setup for which assumes by default that the host is Debian-like). If not, or if there are errors, change the value of this variable to "kindlegen" to use the binaries in /bin/.