Introduction¶
The original EpubCheck is the standard Java based validation tool for EPUB maintained by DAISY Consortium on behalf of the W3C, originally developed by the IDPF.
This package provides a Python libary and command line tool for convenient validation of EPUB files by wrapping the original EpubCheck 4.2.2.
- Free software: BSD license
Installation¶
If you have Python on your system you can do the usual:
pip install epubcheck
You must have Python & Java installed on your system. The original Java EpubCheck command line client itself is bundled in the PyPi package.
This package is tested with Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 on Linux and Windows. It should also work with PyPy.
Quickstart¶
Command line usage examples¶
Validata all epub files in the current directory:
$ epubcheck
Validate a single EPUB file:
$ epubcheck /path/to/book.epub
Validate all files in /epubfolder and create a detailed Excel report:
$ epubcheck /path/epubfolder --xls report.xls
Show command line help:
$ epubcheck -h
Using epubcheck as a python library¶
>>> from epubcheck import EpubCheck
>>> result = EpubCheck('src/epubcheck/samples/invalid.epub')
>>> print(result.valid)
>>> print(result.messages)
Documentation¶
Development¶
To run the all tests run:
tox
Note, to combine the coverage data from all the tox environments run:
Windows | set PYTEST_ADDOPTS=--cov-append
tox
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Other | PYTEST_ADDOPTS=--cov-append tox
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