epubbd

Promise-based Node.js EPUB 3.0 generator

const epubbd = require('epubbd');
const options = {
    title: 'My Book',
    css: './style.css',
    cover: 'https://i.picsum.photos/id/127/200/300.jpg',
    contents: [{
        title: 'Chapter 1',
        subTitle: 'The very first chapter',
        html: '<div><p>HTML that goes inside the BODY tag</p></div>'
    }]
}

(async() => {
  // create a buffer OR
  await epubbd.toBufferAsync(options);

  // output to a file
  await epubbd.toFileAsync(options, 'my-book.epub');
})();

Epubbd Methods

toFileAsync(options, outputLocation)

• Creates an .epub file to the specified output location
• Returns an empty Promise, else an EpubbdError

toBufferAsync(options)

• Creates a buffer representation of the .epub file
• Returns a Node Buffer, else an EpubbdError

Epubbd Options

title

The title of your EPUB file
Example: 'My Book of Nuts'

author

The author of your EPUB file. Setting multiple authors is not supported right now.
Example: 'Jane Smith'

publisher

The publisher of your EPUB file
Example: 'Squirrel Papers'

css

The stylesheet definition of your EPUB file. The <body/> tag of all XHTML pages are assigned a CSS class of epubbd-content you can use to target your HTML elements. If empty, this will default to a pre-defined CSS file that uses Lora Regular and Bold fonts.
Examples:

• './main.css'
• 'https://www.abc.com/css/styles.min.css'
• 'body.epubbd-content{color:aqua}'

cover

The image file or data URL of your cover page. JPEG, PNG, GIF and SVG are the supported file types.
Examples:

• './my-book-image.jpg'
• 'https://www.abc.com/img/cover.jpg'
• 'data:image/png;base64,..'

contents

An array of your book's content pages.
Example: [{ title, subTitle, html }]

contents[0].title

Page content title. This is the <h1> inside an <hgroup> tag at the beginning of your content page. It is also the same entry added to your book's Table of Contents.
Example: 'Chapter 1'

contents[0].subTitle

Page content sub title. This is the <h2> after the <h1> tag of the title at the beginning of your content page.
Example: 'The Very First Chapter'

contents[0].html

The HTML of your content page. The markup is sanitized before adding to the page to ensure XHTML compatibility. Embedded images with local paths must set the "src" attribute relative to where the currently running script is. Example: 'Hello World <br> Line break tag will be converted to <br/>'