calibre-web/readme.md

About

Calibre Web is a web app providing a clean interface for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks using an existing Calibre database.

This software is a fork of library and licensed under the GPL v3 License.

Features

• Bootstrap 3 HTML5 interface
• full graphical setup
• User management
• Admin interface
• User Interface in english, french, german, polish, simplified chinese, spanish
• OPDS feed for eBook reader apps
• Filter and search by titles, authors, tags, series and language
• Create custom book collection (shelves)
• Support for editing eBook metadata
• Support for converting eBooks from EPUB to Kindle format (mobi/azw)
• Restrict eBook download to logged-in users
• Support for public user registration
• Send eBooks to Kindle devices with the click of a button
• Support for reading eBooks directly in the browser (.txt, .epub, .pdf)
• Upload new books in PDF, epub, fb2 format
• Support for Calibre custom columns
• Fine grained per-user permissions
• Self update capability

Quick start

1. Install required dependencies by executing pip install -r requirements.txt
2. Execute the command: python cps.py (or nohup python cps.py - recommended if you want to exit the terminal window)
3. Point your browser to http://localhost:8083 or http://localhost:8083/opds for the OPDS catalog
4. Set Location of Calibre database to the path of the folder where your Calibre library (metadata.db) lives, push "submit" button
5. Go to Login page

Default admin login: Username: admin Password: admin123

Runtime Configuration Options

The configuration can be changed as admin in the admin panel under "Configuration"

Server Port: Changes the port calibre-web is listening, changes take effect after pressing submit button

Enable public registration:
Tick to enable public user registration.

Enable anonymous browsing:
Tick to allow not logged in users to browse the catalog, anonymous user permissions can be set as admin ("Guest" user)

Enable uploading: Tick to enable uploading of PDF, epub, FB2. This requires the imagemagick library to be installed.

Requirements

Python 2.7+

Optionally, to enable on-the-fly conversion from EPUB to MOBI when using the send-to-kindle feature:

Download Amazon's KindleGen tool for your platform and place the binary named as kindlegen in the vendor folder.

Docker image

Calibre Web can be run as Docker container. The latest image is available on Docker Hub.

Reverse Proxy

Reverse proxy configuration examples for apache and nginx to use calibre-web:

nginx configuration for a local server listening on port 8080, mapping calibre web to /calibre:

http {
    upstream calibre {
        server  127.0.0.1:8083;
    }
    server {
            location /calibre-web {
                proxy_bind              $server_addr;
                proxy_pass              http://127.0.0.1:8083;
                proxy_set_header        Host            $http_host;
                proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_set_header        X-Scheme        $scheme;
                proxy_set_header        X-Script-Name   /calibre-web;
        }
    }
}

Apache 2.4 configuration for a local server listening on port 443, mapping calibre web to /calibre-web:

The following modules have to be activated: headers, proxy, rewrite.

Listen 443

<VirtualHost *:443>
    SSLEngine on
    SSLProxyEngine on
    SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL
    SSLCertificateFile "C:\Apache24\conf\ssl\test.crt"
    SSLCertificateKeyFile "C:\Apache24\conf\ssl\test.key"
    
    <Location "/calibre-web" >
        RequestHeader set X-SCRIPT-NAME /calibre-web
        RequestHeader set X-SCHEME https
        ProxyPass http://localhost:8083/
        ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8083/
    </Location>
</VirtualHost>

Start calibre-web as service under Linux

Create a file "cps.service" as root in the folder /etc/systemd/system with the following content:

Description=Calibre-web

[Service]
Type=simple
User=[Username]
ExecStart=[path to python] [/PATH/TO/cps.py]

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Replace the user and ExecStart with your user and foldernames.

sudo systemctl enable cps.service

enables the service.