orly

Download O'Reilly books as EPUB.

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Github releases (recommended)
  • Cargo
• Usage
• Command line interface

Installation

Github releases (recommended)

Archives of precompiled binaries for orly are available for Windows, macOS and Linux. Linux and Windows binaries are static executables.

Cargo

If you're a Rust programmer, orly can be installed with cargo.

> Note that the minimum supported version of Rust for `orly` is **1.54.0**.

You need to install the development headers of libxml2 first. The process depends on the OS being used:

• Windows

  First install vcpkg. After that install libxml2:

  vcpkg install libxml2:x64-windows-static
  

  Export compiler options to force static linking:

  $env:RUSTFLAGS="-Ctarget-feature=+crt-static"
  

• Linux

  On linux systems you'd pkg-config. For Debian-based distributions:

  apt-get install libxml2-dev pkg-config
  

• macOS

  Use brew to install libxml2 and pkg-config:

  brew install libxml2 pkg-config
  

Finally install orly:

cargo install orly

After installation, the orly command will be available. Check the command line section for supported commands.

Usage

• You will need an O'Reily account with a non-expired subscription.

• Find the book you want to download and copy its id (the digits at the end of the url).

• Use your credentials or a cookie string to download the book:

  orly 1234567890 --creds "email@example.com" "password"
  # or
  orly 1234567890 --cookie 'BrowserCookie=....'
  

Command line interface

Currently orly supports these commands

USAGE:
    orly [OPTIONS] <BOOK_IDS>...

ARGS:
    <BOOK_IDS>...    Book ID to download. Digits from the URL

OPTIONS:
    -c, --creds <EMAIL> <PASSWORD>    Sign in credentials
        --cookie <COOKIE_STRING>      Cookie string
    -h, --help                        Print help information
    -k, --kindle                      Apply CSS tweaks for kindle devices
    -o, --output <OUTPUT DIR>         Directory to save the final epub to [default: .]
    -t, --threads <THREADS>           Maximum number of concurrent http requests [default: 20]
    -v, --verbose                     Level of verbosity
    -V, --version                     Print version information