bouquins

Web frontend for calibre e-book manager. BSD License.

Features

Bouquins is a node.js application using the express framework. The web UI uses bootstrap and jQuery.

It allows to browse, search and download e-bboks from a calibre library using a web browser (desktop/mobile).

It needs a local access to all files in the calibre library (including the sqlite database file: metadata.db). Synchronisation of those files on the server is not part of the application (personnaly I use owncloud).

bouquins is available in french and english.

Usage

development

• Install node.js and npm with your usual system tools.
• Extract bouquins in a web accessible directory.
• Install depenencies by running:

npm install

in bouquins directory.

• Create a symlink public/calibre pointing to calibre library
• Check path to calibre files and database in config/development.json.
• Start application:

npm start

• Open http://localhost:3000

production

As a node.js application, bouquins is best run behind a web server such as nginx. nginx act as a proxy for node.js and serves static files (/public and /calibre).

In production, config file is not config/development.json but depends on the NODE_ENV environment variable, for example, if NODE_ENV=production, file is config/production.json. The public/calibre symlink is not needed, but the webserver must server /calibre.

You will also need to run node as a dameon, I use daemontools on a FreeBD host. There are other solutions, such as https://github.com/indexzero/forever

API

TODO

Rest/JSON API:

Lists

• /book
• /serie
• /author

Parameters: perpage, page, initial

Single item

• /book/{id}
• /serie/{id}
• /author/{id}

Search

• POST /book

Parmeters: q (search term), perpage, page, initial

TODO

• OPDS
• sqlite COLLATE
• handle ebook formats (currently epub only)
• book details
• calibre custom fields