GETABOOK(1)

📦 version 1.2, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

Okay bestie, welcome to the GETABOOK(1) page — yes, it’s in the General Commands Manual, and it’s literally here to help you download books. 🫶✨

💖 NAME 💖

getabook — downloads books from amazon. 📚💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

getabook [-n] asin

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so getabook downloads pages of books from amazon’s "look inside the book" service. Some pages are not available, in which case they will be skipped. No cap — if it’s missing, it just skips it. 💀

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • -n — downloads from page numbers given on stdin (one number per line). Like, feed it numbers on stdin and it’s obsessed. 🔢
  • asin — this is the unique ID Amazon assigns to each product. It is 10 characters long. You can find it by looking for the ´/xxxxxxxxxx/´ part of the URL of its Amazon page. If it’s a book, it will generally be the same as the ISBN-10 number. 🎀

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

⭐ download all available pages of a book ⭐

getabook 161293031X

🌈 download pages 5 - 10 of a book 🌈

seq 5 10 | getabook -n 161293031X

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

getbnbook(1), getgbook(1), getxbookgui(1) — go be nosy, bestie. 🧚

💖 That’s the vibe check: this page is from version getabook-1.2 and the manual footer GETABOOK(1); there’s no date printed there, so I’m not inventing one — periodt. Mwah! 🎀🫶

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