ebook-server

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E-book server

I thought it was annoying to manually transfer e-book files from my computer/server to my Kobo eReader, so I wrote this to easily access and download them through the Kobo browser.
It's also my first project in Go!

When /api/ebooks/ is queried with the correct password:

• looks for all epub files (this is the only format I've been using but this could easily be expanded upon) in the given "search" directories
• checks if they already exist in the "storage" directory or not
• copies over the non-existent files there
• returns a json object of all the epub files in the "storage" directory, with various information (author, title, description) as extracted from the epub format

This info can be rendered as wished; I have a simple web page for displaying them in a table with a download link beside them.

When /api/ebook/:filename is queried with the correct password:

• the relevant epub file is copied to a temporary file, accessible as a URL for the next 60 seconds
• the temporary URL is returned

This isn't ideal since the temporary URL is publicly accessible. Originally I had the server return the actual binary epub file, downloadable as a blob, but I had a lot of trouble trying to get the Kobo to download blobs with the very limited JS support that its in-built browser has. This is why I've opted for this solution.

I haven't added any front-end code in this repo but I may do at a later date in the future! The password should be sent to the server through an x-password header. I realise now that there are built in basic HTTP frameworks for this, but this works at least :)

Some config before building:

• If you don't want to use HTTPS: uncomment http.ListenAndServe and comment http.ListenAndServeTLS in main.go
• Edit the config.toml file as necessary (remove Certificate and Key if not using HTTPS)
• Place the config.toml file in the dir you run the executable from