I have been messing around with calibre-web in a few different ways and thought I would share them. I am currently working on a couple of features: -
1. Marking books as read/unread. In the Book View, there is now a row that says whether or not a book is read. If you click it, it will toggle. Further down the line, I plan on adding goodreads support, which if the book has a goodreads link, it will automatically move the book to the "to read" and "read" bookshelves.
2. Google drive support. In my local version, I currently have this working, but it is essentially to make the website have all the books / covers / metadata.db served directly from google drive. I am currently, still optimising a bit of code, and will hopefully have this on GitHub ASAP. Running python cps.py -g, will now make it run with gevent
##Using Google Drive integration
To use google drive integration, you have to use the google developer console to create a new app. https://console.developers.google.com
Once a project has been created, we need to create a client ID and a client secret that will be used to enable the OAuth request with google, and enable the Drive API. To do this, follow the steps below: -
1. Open project in developer console
2. Click Enable API, and enable google drive
3. Now on the sidebar, click Credentials
4. Click Create Credentials and OAuth Client ID
5. Select Web Application and then next
6. Give the Credentials a name and enter your callback, which will be CALIBRE_WEB_URL/gdrive/callback
7. Finally click save
The Drive API should now be setup and ready to use, so we need to integrate it into Calibre Web. This is done as below: -
1. Open config page
2. Enter the location that will be used to store the metadata.db file, and to temporary store uploaded books and other temporary files for upload
2. Tick Use Google Drive
3. Enter Client Secret and Client Key as provided via previous steps
4. Enter the folder that is the root of your calibre library
5. Enter base URL for calibre (used for google callbacks)
6 Now select Authenticate Google Drive
7. This should redirect you to google to allow it top use your Drive, and then redirect you back to the config page
8. Google Drive should now be connected and be used to get images and download Epubs. The metadata.db is stored in the calibre library location
###Optional
If your calibre web is using https (this can be done for free using cloudflare), it is possible to add a "watch" to the drive. This will inform us if the metadata.db file is updated and allow us to update our calibre library accordingly.
9. Click enable watch of metadata.db
9. Note that this expires after a week, so will need to be manually refresh (TODO: Add an authenticated call to do this via crontab or something similar or maybe in before_request method)
##About
Calibre Web is a web app providing a clean interface for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks using an existing [Calibre](https://calibre-ebook.com) database.
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[Download](http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000765211) Amazon's KindleGen tool for your platform and place the binary named as `kindlegen` in the `vendor` folder.
##Using Google Drive integration
Additional optional dependencys are necessary to get this work. Please install all optional requirements by executing `pip install -r optional-requirements.txt`
To use google drive integration, you have to use the google developer console to create a new app. https://console.developers.google.com
Once a project has been created, we need to create a client ID and a client secret that will be used to enable the OAuth request with google, and enable the Drive API. To do this, follow the steps below: -
1. Open project in developer console
2. Click Enable API, and enable google drive
3. Now on the sidebar, click Credentials
4. Click Create Credentials and OAuth Client ID
5. Select Web Application and then next
6. Give the Credentials a name and enter your callback, which will be CALIBRE_WEB_URL/gdrive/callback
7. Finally click save
The Drive API should now be setup and ready to use, so we need to integrate it into Calibre Web. This is done as below: -
1. Open config page
2. Enter the location that will be used to store the metadata.db file, and to temporary store uploaded books and other temporary files for upload
2. Tick Use Google Drive
3. Enter Client Secret and Client Key as provided via previous steps
4. Enter the folder that is the root of your calibre library
5. Enter base URL for calibre (used for google callbacks)
6 Now select Authenticate Google Drive
7. This should redirect you to google to allow it top use your Drive, and then redirect you back to the config page
8. Google Drive should now be connected and be used to get images and download Epubs. The metadata.db is stored in the calibre library location
###Optional
If your calibre web is using https, it is possible to add a "watch" to the drive. This will inform us if the metadata.db file is updated and allow us to update our calibre library accordingly.
9. Click enable watch of metadata.db
9. Note that this expires after a week, so will need to be manually refresh
## Docker image
Calibre Web can be run as Docker container. The latest image is available on [Docker Hub](https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/janeczku/calibre-web/).
OzzieIsaacs
8 years ago