DotOPDS: the lightweight OPDS server

DotOPDS is an OPDS server designed for large libraries like full archive of lib.rus.ec or Flibusta.

Features

• Full-text search through Lucene.net
• Plugins support
• Support for external converters
• OPDS catalog localization
• Cover and annotation extraction (experimental)
• Web interface

Getting started

Download latest release and extract somewhere. Copy appsettings.json to appsettings.Production.json and customize it or use any other method to configure ASP.NET Core Application

Settings description:

{
  "Presentation": {
    "DefaultLanguage": "en", // language used to index texts
    "PageSize": 10, // how many items per page to show
    "Title": "DotOPDS Library", // OPDS title
    "LazyInfoExtract": false, // try to extract cover and annotation from book before displaying
    "Converters": [
      {
        "From": "fb2", // file extension
        "To": "epub", // file extension
        "Command": "fb2epub.exe", // path to converter
        "Arguments": "{0} {1}" // {0} - from, {1} - to
      }
    ],
  },
  "IndexStorage": {
    "Path": "./database" // path to database storage
  }
}

Import library index from .inpx file:

DotOPDS import inpx C:\library C:\lib.inpx

To see available import plugins type:

DotOPDS import help
DotOPDS import help inpx # plugin help

Now just start server:

DotOPDS.Server

and OPDS will be available at http://localhost:5000/opds

You always can use help command to get more info.

Docker

Build the image

docker build . -t dotopds

Run the image

docker run -it -p 5000:80 -v databasePath:/app/database dotopds

Manage data in docker

Find container id with docker ps and get into it

docker exec -it CONTAINER_ID /bin/bash

Included plugins

• BookProvider.Inpx - import .inpx files
• FileFormat.Fb2 - extract annotation and cover from fb2 books

Preparing release

• Make tag with version number
• Wait for ci build completed and edit draft description
• Publish