Browse your calibre book collection from anywhere

[kovidgoyal]

As of version 0.4.102 (released later today) calibre has a built-in webserver that will allow you to access your books from anywhere in the world using a web browser. See attached screenshots

You can run the server from the GUI by using the config dialog or from the command line by using the command calibre-server

Note that while running both the command line server and the GUI at the same time is possible, it is not recommended.

At the moment the web interface allows readonly access (i.e. you cannot add books or edit metadata).

Enjoy.

[simond]

Nice, I'll give it a try today

[simond]

C:\Documents and Settings\Simon>calibre-server
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "server.py", line 15, in <module>
File "cherrypy\__init__.pyo", line 161, in <module>
File "cherrypy\_cptools.pyo", line 226, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name tidy

It doesn't seem to want to run on my XP SP2 system (upgraded from .101)

[kovidgoyal]

Hmm looks like the windows freezing process has left out a few neccessary modules. I'll fix that in the next release.

[Raduz]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/cherrypy/wsgiserver/__init__.py", line 983, in communicate
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/cherrypy/wsgiserver/__init__.py", line 304, in parse_request
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/cherrypy/wsgiserver/__init__.py", line 317, in _parse_request
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/cherrypy/wsgiserver/__init__.py", line 212, in readline
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/cherrypy/wsgiserver/__init__.py", line 823, in readline
AttributeError: 'cStringIO.StringO' object has no attribute 'find'

Running on Debian testing

[kovidgoyal]

Does that happen on startup or when you make a request? calibre requires cherrypy >= 3.1 It has a bundled sherrypy but your system cherrypy appears to be interfering.

[Raduz]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Does that happen on startup or when you make a request? calibre requires cherrypy >= 3.1 It has a bundled sherrypy but your system cherrypy appears to be interfering.

Startup is apparently ok (no errors in server log), but I get previously mentioned error message when I click "Test server", or try access the server directly from a web browser. I don't have any system-wide version of Cherrypy installed. Python version is 2.5.2.

[Cold]

Really liking this feature

I run Calibre on a machine inside my home network and I have an Apache server on the edge of the network. I serve all the internal applications I use (Well, those with web interfaces) to the outside using this server via mod_proxy and mod_proxy_html (if required).

Calibres new web UI *nearly* works with this out of the box.

The issue I have is the gui.js file has references to /library and /get (The ajax calls for data) ... and I can't easily rewrite those.

Would you consider changing gui.js so that it's aware of the path it's been served from and sticks that in front of those two URIs?

Maybe using something like:

path = self.location.pathname.substring(0,self.location.pathname.lastIndexOf('/')));

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

You can run the server from the GUI by using the config dialog or from the command line by using the command calibre-server

I assume this doesn't set up a demon by default I hope.

BOb

[astrodad]

Originally Posted by Cold

Really liking this feature

I run Calibre on a machine inside my home network and I have an Apache server on the edge of the network. I serve all the internal applications I use (Well, those with web interfaces) to the outside using this server via mod_proxy and mod_proxy_html (if required).

Calibres new web UI *nearly* works with this out of the box.

The issue I have is the gui.js file has references to /library and /get (The ajax calls for data) ... and I can't easily rewrite those.

Would you consider changing gui.js so that it's aware of the path it's been served from and sticks that in front of those two URIs?

Maybe using something like:

path = self.location.pathname.substring(0,self.location.pathname.lastIndexOf('/')));

Is your goal to get this to run under Apache directly?

[RoninTech]

Originally Posted by jplumey

Is your goal to get this to run under Apache directly?

I believe he's just using Apache's reverse proxy features to provide access to various _other_ webservers on his network. Very handy and works well.

Cheers,
Crazy

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

I assume this doesn't set up a demon by default I hope.

BOb

No it doesn't, assuming by demon you mean daemon

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by Raduz

Startup is apparently ok (no errors in server log), but I get previously mentioned error message when I click "Test server", or try access the server directly from a web browser. I don't have any system-wide version of Cherrypy installed. Python version is 2.5.2.

How have you installed calibre? via the binary installer or easy_install?

[kovidgoyal]

@Cold

Would it help if gui.js used relative paths instead of absolute ones?

EDIT: I've changed gui.js to use the hostname+absolute path

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

No it doesn't, assuming by demon you mean daemon

Yes... and I have seen it spelled both ways.

Thanks,
BOb