epubjs-search - Full Text Indexing and Retrieval for Epub Files

Engines Supported

• Whoosh
• Cheshire3

How To Use (assumes a Python 2.7 environment with pip and virtualenv)

Clone the Repository

$ git clone https://github.com/futurepress/epubjs-search.git

$ cd epubjs-search

Load a virtual environment for Python

$ virtualenv venv

$ source venv/bin/activate

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Add an unzipped epub to the source directory, say /your_epub/ then run

$ python indexer.py --i your_epub

Finally run the search api

$ python search.py

Flask should run on localhost:5000/ and you can query the server with the /search route and the parameter q, like:

localhost:5000/search?q=test