cli

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A set of tools for downloading novels from the web, manipulating text, and generating EPUB

Platform

• Windows
• Linux
• macOS

Installation

You can download the compiled file from release, or compile it yourself

# Download the source code from https://crates.io
cargo install novel-cli

# Or download the source code from GitHub
git clone https://github.com/novel-rs/cli
cd cli
cargo build --release

If you compile it yourself, you need the following dependencies:

• Clang
• CMake
• Python / Python3

The novel-cli build subcommand requires pandoc

The novel-cli real-cugan subcommand requires realcugan-ncnn-vulkan

Usage

You can run novel-cli help to view help information

Examples

• The basic format of the command is:

novel-cli [OPTIONS] <COMMAND> [COMMAND-OPTIONS] [ARGUMENTS]

• Download a novel from source in format

novel-cli download <novel_id> --source <source> --format <output_format>

• Search for a novel from source

novel-cli search --source <source> <keyword>

Commands

• sign: Sign in and display the current amount of money
• download: Download novel
• search: Search novels
• info: Show novel information
• read: Read novel
• bookshelf: Show novels in the bookshelf
• template: Generate pandoc-style markdown file template
• transform: Transform pandoc-style markdown file
• check: Check pandoc-style markdown file format and content
• build: Build novel from pandoc-style markdown file or mdBook folder
• zip: Zip an EPUB folder
• unzip: Unzip an EPUB file
• real-cugan: Run realcugan-ncnn-vulkan to super-resolution images
• update: Check for updates, download file from GitHub, and replace
• completions: Generate shell completion to stdout
• help: Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options

• -v, --verbose: Use verbose output. This option provides more detailed output
• -q, --quiet: Do not print logs (default: false). This option suppresses logging output
• --backtrace: Print backtrace information. This option displays the backtrace information
• -h, --help: Print help. This option displays the help information
• -V, --version: Print version. This option prints the version information

Contributing

You should read CONTRIBUTING first

License

All the code in this repository is released under Apache License 2.0 and MIT license