Liber3: An Open Sourced Decentralized eBook Search Engine

Introducing Liber3, a tool for searching ebooks stored on IPFS. It's based on a decentralized data protocol - Glitter Protocol.

You could use Liber3 to search for IPFS links base on file names and displays search results with a simple interface.

There is also a web version of Liber3 works on ENS and IPFS available if you do not have Python environment.

Getting Started

To get started, please follow these steps:

Prerequisites

• Python (v3.7 or higher)

Installation

Installing the tool, and you should make sure your/download/path in the $PATH, then you can use the command line tool.

pip install lib3

Options

• terms:Specifies search terms to be queried. Required:yes.

• -p <page> or --page <page>:Specifies the page of results to display. Default: 0.

• -l <limit> or --limit <limit>:Specifies the number of per page to display. Default: 10.

• -t <filter type> or --type <fliter type>:Specifies the book extension of result to display. Default: all.

  • epub :epub extension.
  • pdf:pdf extension.
  • mobi :mobi extension.
  • azw3 :azw3 extension.
  • djvu :djvu extension.

Examples

1. Search for keyword "algebra":

lib3 algebra

2. Search for keywords "linear algebra" and page 1, limit 5:

lib3 "linear algebra" -p 1 -l 5 

3. Search for keywords "linear algebra" and only keep the pdf resource:

lib3 "linear algebra" -t pdf

Built With

• glitter-sdk-py A Python SDK for interacting with the Glitter Protocol.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to this project, feel free to fork the repository and submit a pull request with your changes.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.