libby

libby is a simple CLI tool to quickly download books from Library Genesis.

Demo

Installation

libby is available on the AUR as libby-git. If you have yay, you can install libby with:

yay -S libby-git

Or, to install it manually from this repo, run the following:

git clone https://github.com/carterprince/libby
sudo cp libby/libby /usr/bin/

Requirements

Necessary

When libby is installed from the AUR, there is no need to install these manually.

• pup
• fzf
• recode
• jq
• curl
• wget

Optional

If you want the functionality these provide in libby, you have to install them yourself.

• mutt/neomutt (optional)
• rofi (optional)
• calibre (optional)

Usage

Run libby with no arguments for help:

Usage: libby [--rofi] [--mirror <num>] [--no-view] [--to-kindle] <query>
  --rofi: use rofi to select a book (default is fzf)
  --mirror <num>: use an alternative libgen mirror (default: 3)
  --no-view: don't view the result
  --to-kindle: convert file to .mobi and send to $KINDLE_EMAIL via mutt/neomutt (implies --no-view)
  --to-usb: copy file to $USB via rsync (implies --no-view)
  <query>: the query to search for

Things to consider

• libby filters out all filetypes except ePUBs and PDFs.
• By default, libby creates $HOME/books (lowercase 'b') if it does not already exist and saves all downloads there. This can be changed by adding

export LIBBY_OUTPUT_DIR="/foo/bar"

to your shell profile (.zprofile or .bash_profile).

• By default, libby opens the downloaded file with xdg-open. This command can be changed by adding

export LIBBY_VIEWER="foobar"

to your shell profile (.zprofile or .bash_profile).

Why I made this

Because everything else was too slow, tried to do too much, or no longer worked. The whole point of having a cli is it's faster and more convenient than navigating to the download manually in your browser.