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Get back my books from Kindle
/*
* @fileoverview Program to free the content in kindle books as plain HTML.
*
* This is largely based on reverse engineering kindle cloud app
* (https://read.amazon.com) to read book data from webSQL.
*
* Access to kindle library is required to download this book.
*/
// The Kindle Compression Module copied from http://read.amazon.com application
// The script reuses the same logic to decompress the fragments
var KindleCompression = function() {
function h(a, c, g) {
var f, g = g > 0 ? g : b;
for (f in c)
c[f] >= g && (g = c[f] + 1);
f = g;
for (var d in a)
for (var g = a[d], e = 2; e <= g.length; e++) {
var h = g.substr(0, e);
c.hasOwnProperty(h) || (c[h] = f++)
}
return c
}
function j(c, e) {
var l, h = b;
l = "";
for (var r = 0; r < e.length; ) {
var o = e.charAt(r);
r++;
o.charCodeAt(0) <= d ? c.hasOwnProperty(l + o) ? l += o : (l.length > 0 && h < f && (c[l + o] = h,
h++,
h === a && (h = g)),
l = o) : l = ""
}
return c
}
// This is called when lzExpandWithStaticDictionary doesn't have a dictionary passed in
// in our case, we always construct the dictionary before decompress
// function e() {
// if (defaultDictionary === void 0 || defaultDictionary === {})
// defaultDictionary = j({}, defaultDictionaryString);
// return defaultDictionary
// }
var d = 9983
, c = d + 1
, b = c + 100 + 1
, f = 65533
, a = 55295
, g = 57344;
return {
lzCompress: function(k) {
var e = {}, l = [], h, r = b, o, q, s;
o = h = "";
for (var t = 0; t < k.length; ) {
var u = k.charAt(t);
t++;
if (u.charCodeAt(0) <= d) {
for (; o.length > 0; ) {
q = Math.min(100, o.length);
s = o.substr(0, q);
o = o.substr(q);
l.push(c + q);
for (q = 0; q < s.length; q++)
l.push(s.charCodeAt(q))
}
e.hasOwnProperty(h + u) ? h += u : (h.length > 0 && (l.push(h.length === 1 ? h.charCodeAt(0) : e[h]),
r < f && (e[h + u] = r,
r++,
r === a && (r = g))),
h = u)
} else
h.length > 0 && (l.push(h.length === 1 ?
h.charCodeAt(0) : e[h]),
h = ""),
o += u
}
for (h.length > 0 && l.push(h.length === 1 ? h.charCodeAt(0) : e[h]); o.length > 0; ) {
q = Math.min(100, o.length);
s = o.substr(0, q);
o = o.substr(q);
l.push(c + q);
for (q = 0; q < s.length; q++)
l.push(s.charCodeAt(q))
}
for (i = 0; i < l.length; i++)
l[i] = String.fromCharCode(l[i]);
return l.join("")
},
lzExpand: function(k) {
for (var e = {}, l = [], h, r = b, o = "", q, s = 0; s < k.length; ) {
h = k.charCodeAt(s);
s++;
if (h <= d)
h = String.fromCharCode(h);
else if (h >= b)
(h = e[h]) || (h = o + q);
else {
o = h - c;
l.push(k.substr(s, o));
s += o;
o = "";
continue
}
l.push(h);
q = h.charAt(0);
r < f && o.length > 0 && (e[r] = o + q,
r++,
r === a && (r = g));
o = h
}
return l.join("")
},
lzBuildDictionary: j,
lzGetDecompressionDictionary: function(a) {
var b = [], c;
for (c in a)
b[a[c]] = c;
return b
},
lzAddStringsToDictionary: h,
lzAddNumbersToDictionary: function(a, b) {
for (var c = [], g = 100; g < 1E3; g++)
c.push("" + g);
return h(c, a, b)
},
lzCompressWithStaticDictionary: function(a, b) {
if (b === void 0 || b === {})
b = e();
var g = [], f, h, o, q;
h = f = "";
for (var s = 0; s < a.length; ) {
var t = a.charAt(s);
s++;
if (t.charCodeAt(0) <= d) {
for (; h.length > 0; ) {
o = Math.min(100,
h.length);
q = h.substr(0, o);
h = h.substr(o);
g.push(c + o);
for (o = 0; o < q.length; o++)
g.push(q.charCodeAt(o))
}
b.hasOwnProperty(f + t) ? f += t : (f.length > 0 && g.push(f.length === 1 ? f.charCodeAt(0) : b[f]),
f = t)
} else
f.length > 0 && (g.push(f.length === 1 ? f.charCodeAt(0) : b[f]),
f = ""),
h += t
}
for (f.length > 0 && g.push(f.length === 1 ? f.charCodeAt(0) : b[f]); h.length > 0; ) {
o = Math.min(100, h.length);
q = h.substr(0, o);
h = h.substr(o);
g.push(c + o);
for (o = 0; o < q.length; o++)
g.push(q.charCodeAt(o))
}
for (i = 0; i < g.length; i++)
g[i] = String.fromCharCode(g[i]);
return g.join("")
},
lzExpandWithStaticDictionary: function(a, g, f) {
// NOTE: g is always defined in our case
// if (g === void 0 || g === []) {
// if (defaultDeDictionary === void 0 || defaultDeDictionary === []) {
// e();
// defaultDeDictionary = [];
// for (var h in defaultDictionary)
// defaultDeDictionary[defaultDictionary[h]] = h
// }
// g = defaultDeDictionary
// }
h = d;
var r = b;
f !== void 0 && (h = f - 1,
r = f);
for (var f = [], o = 0; o < a.length; ) {
var q = a.charCodeAt(o);
o++;
q <= h ? f.push(String.fromCharCode(q)) : q >= r ? f.push(g[q]) : (q -= c,
f.push(a.substr(o, q)),
o += q)
}
return f.join("")
}
}
}()
function s(metadata) { // a is bookinfo.metadata
var b = {};
if (metadata.cpr !== void 0) {
KindleCompression.lzAddStringsToDictionary(metadata.cpr, b),
KindleCompression.lzAddNumbersToDictionary(b);
return KindleCompression.lzGetDecompressionDictionary(b);
}
if (metadata.cprJson !== void 0) {
KindleCompression.lzAddStringsToDictionary(metadata.cprJson, b, 256),
KindleCompression.lzAddNumbersToDictionary(b, 256);
return KindleCompression.lzGetDecompressionDictionary(b);
}
}
var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');
var sqlite3 = require('sqlite3').verbose();
//
// http://read.amazon.com stores the ebook with webSQL, which is a sqlite accessible in Chrome
// To locate the sqlite file: http://ahoj.io/how-to-delete-web-sql-database-in-google-chrome
var KINDLE_DB = os.homedir() + '/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/databases/https_read.amazon.com_0/17';
var db = new sqlite3.Database(KINDLE_DB);
// The following hack is from reverse engineering how kindle cloud app reads data
db.all("select metadata from 'bookinfo'", function(err, rows) {
rows.forEach(function (row) {
var metadata = JSON.parse(row.metadata);
var title = metadata.title;
var authors = metadata.authorList.join(',');
// used for dictionary request at https://read.amazon.com/dict/getDefinition?asin=<asin>&word=<word>
var asin = metadata.asin;
var ca = s(metadata);
console.log('staring process book: ' + title);
var HtmlHeader = '<html><head>' +
'<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">' +
'<meta name="author" content="' + authors + '">' +
'</head><body id="' + asin + '">';
var HtmlFile = path.join(os.tmpdir(), title.replace(/\s+/g, '-') + '.html');
fs.writeFile(HtmlFile, HtmlHeader);
console.log("created the file with HTML headers.");
db.all("select id, piece, other from 'fragments' order by id", function(err, rows) {
rows.forEach(function (row) {
var id = row.id;
var compressedFragmentData = row.piece;
var uncompressedFragmentData;
var imageDataMap = JSON.parse(row.other).imageData || {};
uncompressedFragmentData = KindleCompression.lzExpandWithStaticDictionary(
row.piece, ca);
// replace image path with base64 encoded string
for (var image in imageDataMap) {
uncompressedFragmentData = uncompressedFragmentData.replace(
'dataUrl="' + image + '"',
'src="' + imageDataMap[image] + '"');
}
fs.appendFile(HtmlFile, uncompressedFragmentData);
});
});
fs.appendFile(HtmlFile, '</body></html>');
console.log("created the file at: " + HtmlFile);
});
});
@barthelemypousset
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hi,
This script looks awesome, but i can't manage to use it...
I've installed nodejs and i'm using the command "node fetch_kindle.js" while connected to lire.amazon.fr with the ebook i want to be exported open(on Chrome), But nothing happen.
Can you explain me how to use this script ?

@d10r
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d10r commented Jan 26, 2017

Thanks for this script!
I've made a repo out of it, with small changes:

  • added package.json (dependencies)
  • configurable file path
  • some instructions

https://github.com/d10r/kindle-fetch

@darkerego
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You are awesome! This is absolutely brilliant, thanks so much. I hate DRM and am no fan of the Kindle app, or the Kindle, for that matter. The only thing I had to do to get this to work was to run npm install process and change the cont css = multi line variable to this format (my node version must be older):

// improve readability
const css = '\
<style> \
body { \
    margin: 0 auto; \
    max-width: 50em; \
    background: #FFFAFD; \
    font-size:100%; \
    line-height:1.5; \
} \
img { \
    max-width: 100%; \
} \
</style>'

@JohnKulp
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Hello! I've been messing around with this script, and I'm wondering if the db that I have from read.amazon.co.jp are in a slightly different format. I wouldn't think so, but it seems like even though the HTML metadata is being created correctly, and the pages with resource links set up, the images themselves aren't being extracted. If someone could PM me, I'll send over the trouble-causing files as well as the broken HTML result.

@jasonc310771
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Hi,
I am completely lost with this. How do I actually use this ? I have looked at the other versions and yours is the only one that shows 'usage' but where do I put the JS and where do I enter the commands above ?

I was hoping that it would work from Chrome Browser.

I changed the https_read.amazon.com_0/17 to https_read.amazon.com_0/2 as this is the last file in the list.

@HeathenGirl
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This is wonderful script. What about CSS styles? Are they stored somewhere inside sqlite database or they are "inlined" into fragments?

@AGuyCoding
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should this script still work?

@ICWiz
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ICWiz commented Apr 5, 2019

These need to be changed so that the script works on newer versions of Node.js:

line 235
fs.writeFile(HtmlFile, HtmlHeader);
fs.writeFile needs to be changed fs.writeFileSync

line 252
fs.appendFile(HtmlFile, uncompressedFragmentData);
line 256
fs.appendFile(HtmlFile, '</body></html>');
fs.appendFile needs to be changed to fs.appendFileSync

Also, this script can work with Mac Safari as well, just go to line 214:

var KINDLE_DB = os.homedir() + '/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/databases/https_read.amazon.com_0/17';

change it to:

var KINDLE_DB = '/Users/<user>/Library/Safari/Databases/https_read.amazon.com_0/<db_file>';

The db file name will be a long UID ending in .db.

@glachancecmaisonneuve
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Make forks instead of describing changes please

@varun-ramraj
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I have made the changes suggested by ICWiz above along with a couple of package version updates and have issued a pull request to the https://github.com/d10r/kindle-fetch repository.

@iongradea
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Hi guys,

For all those wondering if the script still works, it does :) ! Just been using it to convert a book tonight.
Have a look at the different version for node, chrome and macOS I have on this issue : d10r/kindle-fetch#9.
Thx to all the people that did that amazing work ! Been struggling for several week with a reliable and free way to crack DRM (hate DRM) !!!

Cheers !

@dineshkoravi
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I tried to convert a file. The output file is 0KB. please help me.

image

@iongradea
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iongradea commented Feb 16, 2021

It doesn't seem to work no more !
I used this script https://github.com/d10r/kindle-fetch from @d10r and end up with the following error :

/home/iongradea/DEV/project_kindle_2_epub/kindle-fetch/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/trace.js:27
                    throw err;
                    ^
no metadata found, probably not a valid file

After downloading sqlite3 to look at the data base there is no bookinfo (line 274) and the content is pretty empty. It seems the browser doesn't download automatically and I can't manage to right click and ask to download. Seems it has been removed on Amazon Cloud Reader,

Here the print witht sqlit3, I checked all the tables :

sqlite> .tables
__WebKitDatabaseInfoTable__  keyValue                   
bookdata                     metrics                    
journal   

I would be more than happy to be wrong and it still works !
If someone has any clue !

Cheers,
Ion

Fiy more details :

  • node version : v8.10.0
  • Linux version : ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  • chrome://version
Google Chrome | 88.0.4324.150 (Official Build) (64-bit)
-- | --
Revision | e6c2a846b660e61f059daee2c46217af42913240-refs/branch-heads/4324@{#2103}
OS | Linux
JavaScript | V8 8.8.278.15
User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.150 Safari/537.36
Command Line | /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --origin-trial-disabled-features=SecurePaymentConfirmation
Executable Path | /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
Profile Path | /home/iongradea/.config/google-chrome/Default

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