Tools kindlepass: Retrieve Audible activations for older devices

[kennedn]

As you may be aware, Audible devices/apps require that a license file be present to allow the playback of audible content.

As it stands, the Audible/Amazon login flow has changed so much that older Kindle models (1, 2, DX & 3), can no longer log in and retrieve this license by themselves.

Additionally with Amazon's apparent shelfing of AudibleManager. There is now no real way for these old devices to retrieve their activation and play .aax and .aa content.

Introducing kindlepass, a tool for streamlining the retrieval of licenses for these devices. Written in python and working on both Windows and Linux.


Features

• Windows / Linux Support
• Auto-detection of plugged-in Kindles on Linux
• Full CLI wizard
• Install licenses directly to device
• Generate activation bytes, allowing native playback and drm removal.

Link to Github Project

[Badcatalex]

On Linux here, keeps choking up and failing.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/badcatalex/.local/bin/kindlepass", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/badcatalex/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/kindlepass/kindlepass.py", line 352, in main
    kindle.activate(login())
  File "/home/badcatalex/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/kindlepass/kindlepass.py", line 201, in login
    return audible.LoginAuthenticator(user, password, locale=locale, captcha_callback=custom_captcha_callback)
  File "/home/badcatalex/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/audible_kennedn/auth.py", line 396, in __init__
    resp = login(
  File "/home/badcatalex/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/audible_kennedn/login.py", line 175, in login
    guess = captcha_callback(captcha_url)
  File "/home/badcatalex/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/kindlepass/kindlepass.py", line 158, in custom_captcha_callback
    if (platform == "linux" or platform == "linux2") and shell.check_output(["which", "eog"]):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 411, in check_output
    return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 512, in run
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['which', 'eog']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

Trying to activate a Kindle Touch. In addition, usernames aren't used currently anymore (emails instead are used). But it keeps failing- not even Wine is helping here.

[katadelos]

Originally Posted by Badcatalex

On Linux here, keeps choking up and failing. Trying to activate a Kindle Touch. In addition, usernames aren't used currently anymore (emails instead are used). But it keeps failing- not even Wine is helping here.

Looks like eog is missing from your system, you should be able to install it using APT or the equivalent package manager for your distro.

[Badcatalex]

Originally Posted by katadelos

Looks like eog is missing from your system, you should be able to install it using APT or the equivalent package manager for your distro.

Oh it worked! Thank you so much! Tho the fact that it still asks for a username can throw people off but eh.

[Badcatalex]

Wait, how would.I download audio books to a K1? I don't think Amazon directly integrated Audible on it,.especially because I can't go on Manage My Devices and force Amazon to deliver the books...

[kennedn]

Sorry I never realised that anyone had responded against this thread.

You've actually found a bug with the eog problems you were facing. The script should have been falling back to loading the captcha in the web browser if eog wasn't present. That's fixed now so thanks for highlighting it.

I've additionally added a section on how to actually transfer audible books to old kindles as its surprisingly hard to find any information on it on the internet nowadays:

https://github.com/kennedn/kindlepas...ing-Audiobooks

I hope that helps.