resource-librarian 0.1.2

A library to help create, maintain and index a digital library of electronic book, youtube transcripts and summaries of them

Resource Librarian

A Python library for creating, maintaining, and indexing a personal library of digital resources. Organize your books and YouTube video transcripts in a filesystem-based structure that's perfect for AI processing.

What is Resource Librarian?

Resource Librarian helps you build a filesystem-based knowledge library from:

• Books (PDF, EPUB, Markdown)
• YouTube videos (transcripts and metadata)

No database required - everything is organized in plain files with YAML metadata and Markdown indices.

Key Features

📚 Book Management

• Supports PDF, EPUB, and Markdown formats
• Auto-extracts metadata (title, author, ISBN)
• Automatically splits EPUB into chapters
• Preserves all original formats
• Organizes by author with normalized naming

🎥 YouTube Video Management

• Downloads transcripts automatically (no API key needed for transcripts)
• Captures video metadata (title, channel, publish date, tags)
• Organizes by channel
• Resumable batch processing for large collections

🗂️ Library Organization

• Filesystem-first - All content stored as files, no database
• YAML manifests - Structured metadata for each resource
• Searchable catalog - YAML-based catalog for quick lookups
• Generated indices - Beautiful Markdown index pages for navigation
• Auto-regenerated - Indices update when resources are added

Installation

pip install resource-librarian

Quick Start

Initialize a Library

# Create a new library
rl init my-library
cd my-library

Add Books

# Add a single book
rl book add /path/to/book.epub --author "Author Name"

# Import a folder of books
rl book import-folder /path/to/books/

# List all books
rl book list

# Get book details
rl book get "Book Title"

Add YouTube Videos

# Set up YouTube API key (for metadata only)
export YOUTUBE_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"

# Fetch a video transcript
rl video fetch https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID

# List all videos
rl video list

# Get video details
rl video get "Video Title"

Manage Your Library

# Rebuild catalog from filesystem
rl catalog rebuild

# Show library statistics
rl catalog stats

# Migrate old library format
rl catalog migrate --library /path/to/old-library

Library Structure

Your library is organized in a clean, filesystem-based structure:

my-library/
├── catalog.yaml                    # Library catalog
├── _index/
│   └── README.md                   # Library overview
├── books/
│   ├── _index/
│   │   ├── authors.md              # Books by author
│   │   └── titles.md               # Books by title
│   └── author-lastname-firstname/
│       └── book-title/
│           ├── manifest.yaml       # Book metadata
│           ├── full-book-formats/
│           │   ├── book.epub       # Original EPUB
│           │   ├── book.pdf        # Original PDF
│           │   ├── book.md         # Extracted markdown
│           │   └── chapters/       # Individual chapters
│           └── summaries/          # Book summaries
└── videos/
    ├── _index/
    │   └── channels.md             # Videos by channel
    └── channel-name__CHANNEL-ID/
        └── VIDEO-ID__video-title/
            ├── manifest.yaml       # Video metadata
            └── source/
                └── transcript.txt  # Video transcript

Use Cases

• Personal knowledge management - Organize your reading and learning
• Research - Collect and index academic papers and resources
• AI/LLM projects - Structured data ready for RAG systems
• Content archiving - Preserve YouTube content with transcripts
• Book clubs - Share organized collections with metadata

Requirements

• Python 3.11 or higher
• YouTube Data API key (optional, for video metadata)
• Internet connection (for YouTube features)

Documentation

Full documentation available on GitHub:

• GitHub Repository - Source code and issues
• Getting Started Guide - Developer setup
• Architecture - System design
• Dependencies - Package choices
• Parsing Details - Document parsing

Example Workflows

Build a Personal Library

# Initialize library
rl init ~/my-knowledge-library
cd ~/my-knowledge-library

# Add your book collection
rl book import-folder ~/Downloads/ebooks/

# Add educational videos
rl video fetch https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
rl video fetch https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID_2

# Generate indices
rl catalog rebuild

# View your collection
rl catalog stats
rl book list
rl video list

Migrate from v0.1.0

If you have a library from version 0.1.0 with .knowledgehub/ directory:

rl catalog migrate --library /path/to/old-library

This converts your library to the new format with catalog.yaml.

Technologies Used

• CLI: Typer for command-line interface
• Output: Rich for beautiful terminal output
• Data: Pydantic for data validation
• Parsing: PyMuPDF for PDFs, ebooklib for EPUB
• YouTube: google-api-python-client for metadata, youtube-transcript-api for transcripts

License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

Copyright (c) 2024 Kenny Wilson

Links

• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/resource-librarian/
• GitHub: https://github.com/kennyrnwilson/resource-librarian
• Issues: https://github.com/kennyrnwilson/resource-librarian/issues
• Documentation: https://github.com/kennyrnwilson/resource-librarian/tree/main/docs

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