grunt-ebook-convert

grunt task for generating ebooks with the calibre command-line tool ebook-convert

Dependencies

• node-ebook-convert
• calibre

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-ebook-convert --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-ebook-convert');

The "ebook_convert" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named ebook_convert to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

'use strict';
 
module.exports = function(grunt) {
  var args = [
    ['--base-font-size', '10'], 
    ['--authors', 'Seth Vincent'],
    ['--publisher', 'seattle.io'],
    ['--extra-css', 'test.css']
  ];
 
  // Project configuration.
  grunt.initConfig({
      
    ebook_convert: {
      'test.pdf':{
        source: 'test.html',
        arguments: args
      },
      'test.epub':{
        source: 'test.html',
        arguments: args
      },
      'test.mobi':{
        source: 'test.html',
        arguments: args
      }
    }
 
  });
 
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-ebook-convert');
 
  // Default task.
  grunt.registerTask('default', ['ebook_convert']);
 
};
 

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

v0.0.1

• everything basically works!