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bookstairs/bookhunter

A download tools for clawing the ebooks from internets. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/bookstairs/bookhunter · Go · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

54/100

  • Activity 69
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 1608
  • days_rel: 605
  • days_push: 186
  • n_releases_24m: 1

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1295 stars · 78 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

bookhunter is a Go command-line tool for scraping and downloading ebooks from sources like Talebook, SoBooks, Telegram channels, and China's smart education textbook platform. It supports direct downloads and extracting links from Chinese cloud storage providers.

Use cases

  • download ebooks from talebook
  • scrape epub books from sobooks
  • download textbooks from smartedu
  • fetch books from telegram channels
  • bulk download ebooks from chinese book sites

When to choose

  • you want a CLI to batch-download ebooks from supported sites
  • you need to pull school textbooks from the smart education platform
  • you want to harvest ebooks shared in Telegram channels

When to avoid

  • you need a GUI ebook manager
  • the target site is not among the supported sources
  • you need a general-purpose web scraper

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

web-scraping cli file-upload files crawlers education cli cross-platform windows ebook-downloader epub spider golang telegram textbooks command-line macos linux

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
bookstairs/bookhuntermain54

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="bookstairs/bookhunter")

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