Mobi Python Library
This should be considered alpha quality software.
This library provides a little API for accessing the contents of an unencrypted .mobi file. Here's a short example:
from mobi import Mobi
book = Mobi("test/CharlesDarwin.mobi");
book.parse();
# this will print, 1 record at a time, the entire contents of the book
for record in book:
print recordThis library provides quite a lot of access to the metadata included in any mobibook. For example, Gutenburg's Origin of the Species:
>>> pprint(book.config)
{'exth': {'header length': 356,
'identifier': 1163416648,
'record Count': 15,
'records': {100: 'Charles Darwin',
101: 'Project Gutenberg',
105: 'Natural selection',
106: '1999-12-01',
109: 'Public domain in the USA.',
112: 'http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2009/2009-h/2009-h.htm',
201: '\x00\x00\x00\x00',
202: '\x00\x00\x00\x01',
203: '\x00\x00\x00\x00',
204: '\x00\x00\x00\x01',
205: '\x00\x00\x00\x06',
206: '\x00\x00\x00\x02',
207: '\x00\x00\x00)',
300: '\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x80\x00 \x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xf4\xed\xec\xbe@\x94'}},
'mobi': {'DRM Count': 0,
'DRM Flags': 0,
'DRM Offset': 4294967295,
'DRM Size': 0,
'EXTH flags': 80,
'First Image index': 334,
'First Non-book index': 329,
'Format version': 6,
'Full Name': 'The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition',
'Full Name Length': 64,
'Full Name Offset': 604,
'Generator version': 6,
'Has DRM': False,
'Has EXTH Header': True,
'Input Language': 0,
'Language': 9,
'Mobi type': 2,
'Output Language': 0,
'Start Offset': 2808,
'Unique-ID': 4046349163,
'header length': 232,
'identifier': 1297039945,
'text Encoding': 1252},
'palmdoc': {'Compression': 2,
'Encryption Type': 0,
'Unknown': 0,
'Unused': 0,
'record count': 327,
'record size': 4096,
'text length': 1336365}}
>>>Retrieving Author and Title
The author and title of a book can be retrieved using the author() and title() methods respectively on a Mobi() object. The parse() method needs to have already been called.