Generating an ePub filled with images

For this script to work you need to run it next to the attached ePub skeleton (unzipped...).

#!/usr/bin/python
import os, shutil

# Remove previous epub files
if os.path.isdir("/tmp/epub"):
    shutil.rmtree("/tmp/epub")

# Copy ePub skeleton
shutil.copytree("epub-raw-files", "/tmp/epub")

# Copy images
for image in os.listdir("7240846"):
    shutil.copyfile("7240846/" + image, "/tmp/epub/OEBPS/images/" + image)

### Update the container's file listing
# Create item list
imageitems = ""
for image in os.listdir("/tmp/epub/OEBPS/images/"):
    if image != "cover.png":
        imageitems += '<item id="' + image + '" href="images/' + image  +'" media-type="image/' + image.split('.')[-1]  + '"/>'

# Add images to listing
opf = open("/tmp/epub/OEBPS/content.opf", "w")

content = """<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<package xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" 
            xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" 
            unique-identifier="bookid" version="2.0">
  <metadata>
    <dc:title>Pwetty Pictures</dc:title>
    <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
    <dc:identifier id="bookid">urn:uuid:12345</dc:identifier>
    <dc:language>en-US</dc:language>
    <meta name="cover" content="cover-image" /> 
  </metadata>
  <manifest>
    <item id="ncx" href="toc.ncx" media-type="text/xml"/>
    <item id="cover" href="title.html" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
    <item id="content" href="content.html" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
    <item id="cover-image" href="images/cover.png" media-type="image/png"/>
    <item id="css" href="stylesheet.css" media-type="text/css"/>
""" + imageitems + """
  </manifest>
  <spine toc="ncx">
    <itemref idref="cover" linear="no"/>
    <itemref idref="content"/>
  </spine>
  <guide>
    <reference href="title.html" type="cover" title="Cover"/>
  </guide>
</package>"""

opf.write(content)

### Place the images in the book
# Create item list
imageitems = ""
for image in os.listdir("/tmp/epub/OEBPS/images/"):
    if image != "cover.png":
        imageitems += '<img src="images/' + image  +'"/>'

# Add images in main html file
html = open("/tmp/epub/OEBPS/content.html", "w")

content = """<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <title>Pwetty Pictures!</title>
    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="stylesheet.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Today's selection</h1>
    <div style="text-align:center">""" + imageitems + """</div>
  </body>
</html>"""

html.write(content)

print "done - container ready"

cd /tmp/epub
zip -0Xq img.epub mimetype
zip -Xr9Dq img.epub *

Attachments

File:EPubIMG epub-raw-files.zip