ibooks - Extract cover and metadata from iBooks Author files

"ibooks" is a small python module that can be used to extract cover images and basic metadata from iBooks Author files.

• Author: Titusz <tp at py7 de>
• PyPi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ibooks
• Source Code: http://github.com/titusz/ibooks
• License: BSD

Installation

Use easy_install or pip:

pip install ibooks

Commandline Usage

With the commandline script you can print metadata to the console and extract the cover from .ibooks files:

ibooks my-ibooks-author-file.ibooks

Library Usage

Here is how you can use 'ibooks' as a lib in your code:

>>>from ibooks import iBooks
>>>ibook = iBooks('my-ibooks-author.ibooks')

# Get some metadata
>>> ibook.title
"Title of iBooks file"
>>>ibook.author
"Authors Name"

# Extract cover
>>>ibook.cover
/temp-path-to/OPS/assets/images/cover-image.jpg
# Be sure to process the image file before the "ibook" object is released