creating an output (export) plugin

foobert5 · 02-12-2016, 05:22 PM

i want to create an output plugin for calibre, which creates individual text files of the books in a library, and places these textfiles alongside the cover images to a specified folder.
are there plugins with such fumctionality existing already, ehich i could fork and extend?

thanks!

dickloraine · 02-12-2016, 06:21 PM

I don't know if I understand exactly whar you want to do, but it seems to me, that standard calibre can do what you want.

If you mean with text files, that you convert the books to txt, calibre can do that. You then could just use save to disk. You can save the cover and the metadata file too.

If you mean just the infos about books, that is in calibre. Maybe it is possible to just export these, otherwise copy the library and then delete all formats from the new library.

If you just want to catalog your books, calibre has that feature as well.

02-12-2016, 05:22 PM	#1
foobert5 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2016 Device: none	creating an output (export) plugin i want to create an output plugin for calibre, which creates individual text files of the books in a library, and places these textfiles alongside the cover images to a specified folder. are there plugins with such fumctionality existing already, ehich i could fork and extend? thanks!

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02-12-2016, 06:21 PM	#2
dickloraine Guru Posts: 631 Karma: 7544528 Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Berlin Device: PRS 350, Kobo Aura	I don't know if I understand exactly whar you want to do, but it seems to me, that standard calibre can do what you want. If you mean with text files, that you convert the books to txt, calibre can do that. You then could just use save to disk. You can save the cover and the metadata file too. If you mean just the infos about books, that is in calibre. Maybe it is possible to just export these, otherwise copy the library and then delete all formats from the new library. If you just want to catalog your books, calibre has that feature as well.

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