epub-open command-line tool
epub-open tool provides interactive shell(IRB) which helps you research about EPUB book.
Usage
epub-open path/to/book.epub
IRB starts. self becomes the EPUB book and can access to methods of EPUB.
title
=> "Title of the book"
metadata.creators
=> [Author 1, Author2, ...]
resources.first.properties
=> ["nav"] # You know that first resource of this book is nav document
nav = resources.first
=> ...
nav.href
=> #<Addressable::URI:0x15ce350 URI:nav.xhtml>
nav.media_type
=> "application/xhtml+xml"
puts nav.read
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:epub="http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops">
:
:
:
</html>
=> nil
exit # Enter "exit" when exit the session
For command-line options:
epub-open -h
Development of this tool is still in progress. Welcome comments and suggestions for this!