palace-opds 44.0.3

Pydantic models for OPDS 2.0, RWPM, ODL, LCP, and Palace Project extensions.

palace-opds

Pydantic models for the OPDS and Readium family of specifications used in digital-library publishing — read, validate, and emit feed and license documents with type-safe Python objects.

What's covered

• OPDS 2.0 publication and feed documents, including facets, navigation groups, and publication groups.
• Readium Web Publication Manifest (RWPM) — link models, presentation hints, encryption metadata.
• OPDS for Distributors / Authentication for OPDS 1.0 — authentication documents and link relations.
• ODL 1.0 (Open Distribution to Libraries) — license metadata, terms, protection, loan/checkout status.
• LCP (Readium Licensed Content Protection) — license documents and loan-status (LSD) documents.
• W3C accessibility metadata and schema.org publication vocabulary for the slices that OPDS feeds reference.
• Palace-specific extensions to the publication metadata vocabulary (under palace.opds.palace) — these can be safely ignored if you don't need them.

Installation

pip install palace-opds   # or: uv add palace-opds

Requires Python 3.12+.

Quick example

from palace.opds.opds2 import PublicationFeed

feed = PublicationFeed.model_validate_json(raw_feed_bytes)
for publication in feed.publications:
    print(publication.metadata.title, publication.metadata.identifier)

Models live under the palace.opds namespace and follow Pydantic v2 conventions, so they serialize to/from JSON and dictionaries with .model_dump() / .model_validate().

Design

• Spec-faithful, not opinionated. Where the OPDS / Readium specs allow flexibility, the models accept it; we don't impose application-specific constraints.
• Lean dependencies. Only the validation and serialization libraries the models actually need (pydantic, pycountry, uritemplate) — no web framework, ORM, or cloud SDK is pulled in transitively.
• Stable, documented breakage. Breaking changes follow semver and are called out in release notes; minor releases are additive.

Project context

palace-opds is developed and maintained as part of the Palace Project, where it powers OPDS ingestion and feed generation for the Palace Manager digital-library backend. It's published as a standalone package because the OPDS specs are widely shared — other library systems, ingestion pipelines, or research tools that work with OPDS feeds can use these models without taking on Palace Manager as a dependency.

Outside contributions and bug reports are welcome via the ThePalaceProject/circulation repository, where this package is developed as a uv workspace member.

License

Apache 2.0.