This repo will convert books from libgen to plain txt format. This repo does not contain any books, only the scripts to download and convert them.

The scripts use a seedbox to download the libgen torrents, copy them to your machine/cloud instance, convert them to text, and enrich them with metadata. Processing will be by chunk, with configurable parallelization.

It currently only works for the libgen rs nonfiction section, but PRs welcome for additional compatibility. It will cost about $300 to convert all of libgen rs nonfiction if you're using a cloud instance, and take about 1 week to process everything (bandwidth-bound). You will need 3TB of disk space.

This was only tested on Ubuntu 23.04 and Python 3.11. It should work with Python 3.8+.

• apt-get update
• xargs apt-get install -y < apt-requirements.txt
• pip install -r requirements.txt

• Download the metadata DB (look for "metadata" and the nonfiction one)
• bsdtar -xf libgen.rar
• Start mariadb
  • systemctl start mariadb.service
• Setup DB user
  • mariadb
  • GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'libgen'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION; # Replace with your password
  • FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
  • create database libgen;
  • exit
• Import metadata
  • git clone https://annas-software.org/AnnaArchivist/annas-archive.git
  • pv libgen.sql | PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF8:ignore python3 annas-archive/data-imports/scripts/helpers/sanitize_unicode.py | mariadb -h localhost --default-character-set=utf8mb4 -u libgen -ppassword libgen

• Make an account on put.io
• Install rclone following these instructions
• Create a putio adapter for rclone

• Get a putio oauth token following these instructions
• Either set the env var PUTIO_TOKEN, or create a local.env file with PUTIO_TOKEN=yourtoken
• Inspect settings.py. You can edit settings directly to override them, set an env var, or add the key to a local.env file.
  • You may particularly want to look at CONVERSION_WORKERS and DOWNLOAD_WORKERS to control parallelization. The download step is the limiting factor, and too many download workers will saturate your bandwidth.

• python download_and_clean.py to download and clean the data
  • --workers to control number of download workers
  • --max controls how many chunks at most to process (for testing)

You should see progress information printed out - it will take several days to weeks to finish depending on bandwidth. Check the txt and processed folders to monitor.