BookStack-Export-Books

readme.md

Requirements

You will need php (~7.1+) installed on the machine you want to run this script on. You will also need BookStack API credentials (TOKEN_ID & TOKEN_SECRET) at the ready.

Note

This has quickly been thrown together and is not an officially supported part of BookStack.

Running

# Downloading the script
curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ssddanbrown/45acb913a7b873240b2d89781e74a7a4/raw/export-books.php > export-books.php

# Setup
# ALTERNATIVELY: Open the script and edit the variables at the top.
export BS_URL=https://bookstack.example.com # Set to be your BookStack base URL
export BS_TOKEN_ID=abc123 # Set to be your API token_id
export BS_TOKEN_SECRET=123abc # Set to be your API token_secret

# Running the script
php export-books.php <format> <output_dir>

# Examples

## Export as plaintext to an existing "out" directory
php export-books.php plaintext ./out

## Export as pdf to the current directory
php export-books.php pdf ./

## Export as HTML to an existing "html" directory
php export-books.php html ./html

export-books.php

#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php

// API Credentials
// You can either provide them as environment variables
// or hard-code them in the empty strings below.
$apiUrl = getenv('BS_URL') ?: ''; // http://bookstack.local/
$clientId = getenv('BS_TOKEN_ID') ?: '';
$clientSecret = getenv('BS_TOKEN_SECRET') ?: '';

// Export Format & Location
// Can be provided as a arguments when calling the script
// or be hard-coded as strings below.
$exportFormat = $argv[1] ?? 'pdf';
$exportLocation = $argv[2] ?? './';

// Script logic
////////////////

$books = getAllBooks();
$outDir = realpath($exportLocation);

$extensionByFormat = [
    'pdf' => 'pdf',
    'html' => 'html',
    'plaintext' => 'txt',
];

foreach ($books as $book) {
    $id = $book['id'];
    $extension = $extensionByFormat[$exportFormat] ?? $exportFormat;
    $content = apiGet("api/books/{$id}/export/{$exportFormat}");
    $outPath = $outDir  . "/{$book['slug']}.{$extension}";
    file_put_contents($outPath, $content);
}

/**
 * Get all books from the system API.
 */
function getAllBooks() {
    $count = 100;
    $offset = 0;
    $total = 0;
    $allBooks = [];

    do {
        $endpoint = 'api/books?' . http_build_query(['count' => $count, 'offset' => $offset]);
        $resp = apiGetJson($endpoint);

        // Only set total on first request, due to API bug:
        // https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/issues/2043
        if ($offset == 0) {
            $total = $resp['total'] ?? 0;
        }

        $newBooks = $resp['data'] ?? [];
        array_push($allBooks, ...$newBooks);
        $offset += $count;
    } while ($offset < $total);

    return $allBooks;
}

/**
 * Make a simple GET HTTP request to the API.
 */
function apiGet(string $endpoint): string {
    global $apiUrl, $clientId, $clientSecret;
    $url = rtrim($apiUrl, '/') . '/' . ltrim($endpoint, '/');
    $opts = ['http' => ['header' => "Authorization: Token {$clientId}:{$clientSecret}"]];
    $context = stream_context_create($opts);
    return file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
}

/**
 * Make a simple GET HTTP request to the API &
 * decode the JSON response to an array.
 */
function apiGetJson(string $endpoint): array {
    $data = apiGet($endpoint);
    return json_decode($data, true);
}

/**
 * DEBUG: Dump out the given variables and exit.
 */
function dd(...$args) {
    foreach ($args as $arg) {
        var_dump($arg);
    }
    exit(1);
}

Hello. tell me please, how to install, or activate BookStack API credentials? I do not see it in my settings. As I understood, I need to generate TOKEN_ID & TOKEN_SECRET. The version of BookStack is 22.02.3.

@folletst You can find API access details when editing your profile in BookStack, you'll need "Access system API" permissions.

Since I've created this I've been pooling any API scripts into a central repo, that's more likely to be updated.
Therefore you may be better following this version here:
https://github.com/BookStackApp/api-scripts/tree/main/php-export-all-books

Thank You! I generated tokens and successfully generated all PDF books!
Ukraine says you greetings! 🇺🇦 ❤️

I couldn't figure out how to use PHP. I kept getting errors. But with the help of CHATGPT i managed to get this powershell script that downloads all books as HTML. Unfortunately I wasn't able to encode it in a way where characters like "ÅÄÖ" is displayed correctly.

# Define the BookStack API URL
$apiUrl = "XXXX"

# Define the API credentials
$clientId = "XXXX"
$clientSecret = "XXX"

# Define the export format and location
$exportFormat = "html"
$exportLocation = "C:\BookstackBackup"

# Get all books from the BookStack API
function Get-AllBooks {
    $count = 100
    $offset = 0
    $allBooks = @()

    do {
        $endpoint = "api/books?count=$count&offset=$offset"
        $resp = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "$apiUrl/$endpoint" -Headers @{Authorization = "Token $($clientId):$($clientSecret)" }).Content | ConvertFrom-Json


        $newBooks = $resp.data
        $allBooks += $newBooks
        $offset += $count
    } while ($offset -lt $resp.total)

    return $allBooks
}


# Get all books from the BookStack API
$allBooks = Get-AllBooks

# Loop through each book and export it
foreach ($book in $allBooks) {
    # Define the book ID and file extension
    $id = $book.id
    $extension = "html"

    # Get the book content from the API
    $content = [System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding(28591).GetString((Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "$apiUrl/api/books/$id/export/$exportFormat" -Headers @{Authorization = "Token $($clientId):$($clientSecret)" }).Content)


    # Create the output file path
    $outPath = "$exportLocation\$($book.slug).$extension"

    # Write the book content to the output file
    Set-Content -Path $outPath -Value $content
}

Thanks for the Poewershell Script, @Karl-Qlogic, it was a good template for my use case. Your issue can be solved by using UTF8 when getting the content and when saving it:

$content = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString((Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "$apiUrl/api/books/$id/export/$exportFormat" -TimeoutSec 60 -Headers @{Authorization = "Token $($clientId):$($clientSecret)" }).Content)
Set-Content -Path $outPath -Value $content -Encoding UTF8