OpenAudible

A desktop application for downloading and managing your audible.com content.

Latest Release

A binary installer for Windows, Mac and Linux is to be available, generated with install4j. Latest Releaes

Features

• Import audible books from your account
• Convert to mp3 with all tags
• Display all your books in searchable
• Export web page/javascript file with all your books

Screenshot

Windows User Interface

Building

OpenAudible is a java application that uses Maven for building.

Prerequisites

Java 8, Maven, and git. Windows, Mac or Linux Desktop.

Clone the git repo

git clone https://github.com/openaudible/openaudible.git

Build using Intellij

Import Project:
Select the openaudible/pom.xml file
Click through all of the defaults

Build using Eclipse

Import... Maven Project
Select the openaudible directory

Build from command line (requires maven, java 8 SDK)

cd openaudible
mvn compile
mvn package

Running/Debugging

Your IDE should link the platform specific SWT library via the maven profile.

IntelliJ

Select menu Run: Debug...
Select Edit Configurations...
Add Application
Name: OpenAudible
Main Class: org.openaudible.desktop.Application
VM options: -ea
Mac VM options: -ea -XstartOnFirstThread
Click Debug button

Windows Command Line

java -cp "target\openaudible-jar-with-dependencies.jar;swt\org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86_64-4.6.jar" org.openaudible.desktop.Application

Mac Command Line

java -XstartOnFirstThread -cp "./target/openaudible-jar-with-dependencies.jar:./swt/org.eclipse.swt.cocoa.macosx.x86_64-4.6.jar" org.openaudible.desktop.Application

Notice on Mac, the -XstartOnFirstThread is required to run SWT apps.

Linux Command Line

java -cp "target/openaudible-jar-with-dependencies.jar:swt/org.eclipse.swt.gtk.linux.x86_64-4.6.jar" org.openaudible.desktop.Application

Notes

Running with -ea to alert you of assertion failures is recommended for debugging. We use a lot of "asserts" to help identify problems.

Enter that into the VM Arguments on your debugger/run dialog if using an IDE.

You should see the user interface. You may see an error, or a warning about where you can go to preferences and enter your audible account details.

Open the Preferences from the Edit Menu.
Enter your audible user name (email) and password.
Before logging in with the application, go to the Controls: Browser menu and log into your audible account.
This is only required if logging in fails or if the browser cookies expire.

The application will use cookies to expedite logging in-- and bypassing some of the "are you a human" checks.

Errors are logged to an "error.log" file, usually written out to the application directory.

Built With

• Eclipse SWT - Standard Widget Toolkit
• HTML Unit - HTML web page scraping

Contributing

This is a work in progress. It needs testing and bug reporting for all platforms.

• Exporting to a podcast format is planned
• Testing with regions is needed
• Exporting to a format that supports the best mobile audio book players is the goal.
• The UI needs cleaning up, especially for Linux.
• Improved "first time setup" and connection needs major improvement
• Support for multiple audible accounts would be nice

Please feel free to submit pull requests.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

See the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details, but may uses code licensed by other licenses.