Welcome! EPUB-Search makes your digital publications searchable.

What is the use case:

• Server-side microservice to search for browser-based “cloud” readers within EPUBs
• For EPUBs that lives online
• To search within your local EPUB-stock

Demo

• Full text search (get all query matches for one epub-document or for a whole epub collection)
• Autocomplete
• Full javascript
• Hits including cfi references
• Response results in JSON format
• Pre-indexing
• Indexing on-the-fly

For CLI use

[sudo] npm install epub-full-text-search -g

For library use

$ npm install epub-full-text-search --save

CLI

$ epub-search 

Welcome to Epub search service

Usage: epub-search [action] [options]

Actions:
        start           Start the service
        stop            Stop the service
        logs            Show logs
        writeToIndex    Epub-book(s) which should be written to index.(Hint: the epub content have to be unzipped)

Options:
        -p      Path to epub folder which contains epub-book(s).

$ [sudo] epub-search start

EPUB search provides two modus operandi:

• The first one is Indexing On-the-fly. This means the ebook will be indexed in the background when it gets opened. The assumption for this mode is the EPUB3-book which is remote available. The generated search-index will be deleted if the ebook is closed.

• The second one is Pre-Indexing. This means all ebooks on the local machine can be indexed and the generated search index will be persistent available during all reading sessions. So it possible the search terms within all indexed ebooks.

http://localhost:8085/addToIndex?url=${epub}/&uuid=${uuid}

http://localhost:8085/search?q=${term}&uuid=${uuid}

http://localhost:8085/deleteFromIndex?&uuid=${uuid}

Let´s start to index some EPUBs:

$ epub-search writeToIndex -p  <path>

Search for term:

http://localhost:8085/search?q=${term}&t=${EPUB-title};

$  http://localhost:8085/matcher?beginsWith=beginning-of-the-text-to-match

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At first, please install epub-search globally:

[sudo] npm install epub-full-text-search -g

Start service:

$ [sudo] epub-search start

Add sample epubs to index:

epub-search writeToIndex -p {prefix}/node_modules/epub-full-text-search/node_modules/epub3-samples

Now we should get some hits for the term epub:

_{For requests you can use $ curl -XGET "http://localhost:8085/search?q=math" or the browser...}

Search within the whole ebook-collection:

http://localhost:8085/search?q=math

Set the filter for the book-title t="..." to search only within a specific ebook:

http://localhost:8085/search?q=epub&t=Accessible+EPUB+3

Or we can get some suggestions for an autocomplete:

http://localhost:8085/matcher?beginsWith=epu

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Install all dependent modules: npm install.

Start up the demo npm run start. It should run an express server on your local machine.

When you are navigating to http://localhost:8085/ you can see the demo?.

Note: The pre-indexing process starts automatically and it takes a few seconds until the pre-indexing search is available.

EPUB-Search uses search-index to indexing book content.

Very welcome ... :-)