Automate epub editing?

Montana Harper · 12-23-2016, 04:30 PM

Is there a way to automate editing a group of epubs to perform the same action on all of them? I've been getting books from InstaFreebie, which inserts a page with my name on it into the book, and that bugs me. I can manually go into each book and delete the page (which always has the same name in the epub structure), but I'd rather be able to automate the process so that Calibre just deletes that particular page (if it exists) from all selected books.

Anyone know if this is possible, maybe with a plugin or something? (I use both Polish Books and Modify ePub and it seems like the kind of thing that would be in their wheelhouse, but they're hard-coded as far as what they will edit/manipulate.)

TIA!

BetterRed · 12-23-2016, 04:50 PM

@Montana Harper - because it's vendor specific it's probably more suited to the Modify optional PI, rather than Polish Books.

Optional PI's are shipped as source code, so you could try hacking the Modify PI to add a new item - Remove InstaFreebie page. The Remove metadata jackets option might provide a 'model' to work from.

BR

Dopedangel · 12-27-2016, 10:57 PM

Not exactly what the op wants but I also want an automation as I run 3 things on every epub. Arrange into folders, filter style information, remove unused css styles ability to run all 3 one after the other automatically would be appreciated.

12-23-2016, 04:30 PM	#1
Montana Harper book geek (she/her) Posts: 115 Karma: 2029154 Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Pacific Northwest Device: iPhone 12, Kindle Paperwhite (10th gen)	Automate epub editing? Is there a way to automate editing a group of epubs to perform the same action on all of them? I've been getting books from InstaFreebie, which inserts a page with my name on it into the book, and that bugs me. I can manually go into each book and delete the page (which always has the same name in the epub structure), but I'd rather be able to automate the process so that Calibre just deletes that particular page (if it exists) from all selected books. Anyone know if this is possible, maybe with a plugin or something? (I use both Polish Books and Modify ePub and it seems like the kind of thing that would be in their wheelhouse, but they're hard-coded as far as what they will edit/manipulate.) TIA!

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12-23-2016, 04:50 PM	#2
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,610 Karma: 29710338 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@Montana Harper - because it's vendor specific it's probably more suited to the Modify optional PI, rather than Polish Books. Optional PI's are shipped as source code, so you could try hacking the Modify PI to add a new item - Remove InstaFreebie page. The Remove metadata jackets option might provide a 'model' to work from. BR

12-27-2016, 10:57 PM	#3
Dopedangel Wizard Posts: 1,791 Karma: 30548723 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Singapore Device: Boyue	Not exactly what the op wants but I also want an automation as I run 3 things on every epub. Arrange into folders, filter style information, remove unused css styles ability to run all 3 one after the other automatically would be appreciated.

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