cli

A set of tools for downloading novels from the web, manipulating text, and generating EPUB

Platform

• Windows
• Linux
• macOS

Installation

You can download the compiled file from release, or compile it yourself

```shell

Download the source code from https://crates.io

cargo install novel-cli

Or download the source code from GitHub

git clone https://github.com/novel-rs/cli cargo build --release ```

If you compile it yourself, you need the following dependencies:

• Clang
• CMake
• Python / Python3

If you are using Windows, you also need:

• NASM

And requires Clang version below 16 on Windows(due to this)

The novel-cli build subcommand requires pandoc

The novel-cli real-cugan subcommand requires realcugan-ncnn-vulkan

Usage

You can run novel-cli help to view help information

Examples

• The basic format of the command is:

shell novel-cli [OPTIONS] <COMMAND> [COMMAND-OPTIONS] [ARGUMENTS]

• Download a novel from source in format

shell novel-cli download <bookid> --source <app-source> --format <output-format>

• Search for a novel from source

shell novel-cli search --source <SOURCE> <KEYWORD>

Commands

• download: Download novels from various sources.
• search: Search for novels on various sources.
• info: Print information about a novel on various sources.
• read: Read novel from various sources.
• bookshelf: Show saved favorite novels on various sources.
• transform: Convert markdown files to pandoc style.
• check: Check the format and content of pandoc style markdown files.
• build: Build a novel from pandoc style markdown files or an mdBook folder.
• zip: Compress an epub folder.
• unzip: Decompress an epub file.
• real-cugan: Run the realcugan-ncnn-vulkan program.
• update: Check for updates, download files from GitHub, and replace them.
• completions: Generate shell completions to standard output.
• help: Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s).

Options

• -v, --verbose: Use verbose output. This option provides more detailed output.
• -q, --quiet: Do not print logs (default: false). This option suppresses logging output.
• --backtrace: Print backtrace information. This option displays the backtrace information.
• -h, --help: Print help. This option displays the help information.
• -V, --version: Print version. This option prints the version information.

Contributing

You should read CONTRIBUTING first

License

All the code in this repository is released under Apache License 2.0 and MIT license