Command line Usage

AudioBook can be used as a command line tool and as a library. only the command line tool is documented here.

Only basic functionality is implemented. The following features are not yet implemented:

• –delete option

• –volume option

• –speed option

• –save_chapterwise option

Support Format and extraction method

AudioBook supports the following formats and extraction methods:

File Format	Supported	extraction_engine
PDF	✅	pypdf2/pdfminor
TXT	✅	default set
EPUB	✅	default set
MOBI	✅	default set
HTML	✅	default set
DOCX	✅	default set
ODT	✅	default set

As command line tool

$ audiobook --help
Usage: audiobook [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

optional arguments:
-h, --help            show this help message and exit
-p [PATH], --path [PATH]
                        book file path
-v, --version         show programs version number and exit
-l, --library         get all books in library
-c, --create-json     create json file from input file
-s, --save-audio      save audio files from input file
-r, --read-book       read the book from input file

commands: read, save, create

Get AudioBook version

$ audiobook --version

Read a book

$ audiobook -p <file_path> -r

Save audio book

$ audiobook -p <file_path> -s

Create a json file

$ audiobook -p <file_path> -c