#!/usr/bin/python import os.path import zipfile import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree import uuid """ So, an epub is approximately a zipfile of HTML files, with a bit of metadata thrown in for good measure. This totally started from http://www.manuel-strehl.de/dev/simple_epub_ebooks_with_python.en.html """ def make_epub(filename, html_files, meta): unique_id = meta.get('unique_id', False) if not unique_id: unique_id = 'leech_book_' + str(uuid.uuid4()) epub = zipfile.ZipFile(filename, 'w') # The first file must be named "mimetype" epub.writestr("mimetype", "application/epub+zip") # We need an index file, that lists all other HTML files # This index file itself is referenced in the META_INF/container.xml # file container = etree.Element('container', version = "1.0", xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:container") rootfiles = etree.SubElement(container, 'rootfiles') etree.SubElement(rootfiles, 'rootfile', { 'full-path': "OEBPS/Content.opf", 'media-type': "application/oebps-package+xml", }) epub.writestr("META-INF/container.xml", etree.tostring(container)); package = etree.Element('package', { 'version': "2.0", 'xmlns': "http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf", 'unique-identifier': 'book_identifier', # could plausibly be based on the name }) # build the metadata metadata = etree.SubElement(package, 'metadata', { 'xmlns:dc': "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/", 'xmlns:opf': "http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf", }) identifier = etree.SubElement(metadata, 'dc:identifier', id='book_identifier') if unique_id.find('://') != -1: identifier.set('opf:scheme', "URI") identifier.text = unique_id etree.SubElement(metadata, 'dc:title').text = meta.get('title', 'Untitled') etree.SubElement(metadata, 'dc:language').text = meta.get('language', 'en') etree.SubElement(metadata, 'dc:creator', {'opf:role': 'aut'}).text = meta.get('author', 'Unknown') # we'll need a manifest and spine manifest = etree.SubElement(package, 'manifest') spine = etree.SubElement(package, 'spine', toc="ncx") # ...and the ncx index ncx = etree.Element('ncx', { 'xmlns': "http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2005/ncx/", 'version': "2005-1", 'xml:lang': "en-US", }) etree.SubElement(etree.SubElement(ncx, 'head'), 'meta', name="dtb:uid", content=unique_id) etree.SubElement(etree.SubElement(ncx, 'docTitle'), 'text').text = meta.get('title', 'Untitled') etree.SubElement(etree.SubElement(ncx, 'docAuthor'), 'text').text = meta.get('author', 'Unknown') navmap = etree.SubElement(ncx, 'navMap') # Write each HTML file to the ebook, collect information for the index for i, html in enumerate(html_files): basename = os.path.basename(html[1]) file_id = 'file_%d' % (i+1) etree.SubElement(manifest, 'item', { 'id': file_id, 'href': basename, 'media-type': "application/xhtml+xml", }) etree.SubElement(spine, 'itemref', idref=file_id) point = etree.SubElement(navmap, 'navPoint', { 'class': "h1", 'id': file_id, }) etree.SubElement(etree.SubElement(point, 'navLabel'), 'text').text = html[0] etree.SubElement(point, 'content', src=basename) # and add the actual html to the zip if html[2]: epub.writestr('OEBPS/'+basename, html[2]) else: epub.write(html[1], 'OEBPS/'+basename) # ...and add the ncx to the manifest etree.SubElement(manifest, 'item', { 'id': 'ncx', 'href': 'toc.ncx', 'media-type': "application/x-dtbncx+xml", }) epub.writestr('OEBPS/toc.ncx', etree.tostring(ncx)) # Finally, write the index epub.writestr('OEBPS/Content.opf', etree.tostring(package)) epub.close() return True if __name__ == '__main__': make_epub('test.epub', [('Chapter 1', 'test/a.html'), ('Chapter 2', 'test/b.html')], {})