# bookstairs/bookhunter

A download tools for clawing the ebooks from internets.

Repository: https://github.com/bookstairs/bookhunter
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bookhunter
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: epub, golang, spider
Last push: 2026-02-28T03:04:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 54/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 69, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1608, "days_push": 186, "days_rel": 605, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1295, forks 78 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:16.430452+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, cli, file-upload
- domain: files, crawlers, education
- platform: cli, cross-platform, windows
- tags: ebook-downloader, epub, spider, golang, telegram, textbooks, command-line, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- bookstairs/bookhunter (main) score 54

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:16.430452+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:54:00.556295+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bookstairs/bookhunter (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:16.430452+00:00, sha e977a58fcbf8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.