CLI to download and generate books from O'Reilly | Safaribooks.
This package is exclusively intended for personal use. Its purpose is to complement your O'Reilly membership facilitating content in the format of .epub to read on your e-reader.
You need to hold an active account in O'Reilly | Safaribooks to be able to download books.
$ ./cli.js -b "<BOOKID>" -c "<OREILLY_COOKIE>"
The downloaded books will be stored in a folder called obooks in your home directory (~/obooks).
After the first successful login/book download through obooks, a session.json file containing auth cookies will be written in the root of the project. Any future downloads will not require passing the cookies to the command.
$ ./cli.js -b "<BOOKID>"
The first time you're using obooks, you'll need to pass your logged in cookies in the command. Check the chrome developer tools while logged in to O'Reilly, you'll see a 'cookie' header sent in the 'Request Headers', this is the long string you should pass in in the obooks cookie flag -c "<cookie>:
$ ./cli.js -b "9781788623872" -c "LONG STRING OF COOKIES HERE"
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-b <bookid>: This is the book identification in O'Reilly. You can find it in the url of the book you'd like to download. For this example, the book id would be: 9781260440249. -
-c <cookie>: O'Reilly session cookie.