homebase-parser v1.1.0

homebase-parser

Parser & file reader for the ABE Homebase 2.0 text (*.txt) format.

Usage

const { Parser, readFile } = require('homebase-parser');

// Read book data
const books = await readFile('path/to/your/file.txt');

// Do stuff with book data
// ... profit?

Seriously though – what's all this then?

🐲 Here be dragons. While using ABE Homebase (don't ask why) this file format was discovered. There is literally no documentation for it. No where. Any where. Not even in the ABE Homebase 2.3 User Guide. Looking for a sample?

BOOS|
BOOK|000332
TRAN|A
ANAM|Alumit, Noel
TNAM|Letters to Montgomery Clift
PBLS|MacAdam/Cage
DESC|Softcover Advance Proof copy of author's first novel.
PRIC|6
BIND|S
EDTN|F
UPDT|6/15/2010
UPTM|12:45:35 PM
BCAT|ARCs/Uncorrected Proofs
ABLE|1
ISBN|1931561028
UBID|367
EDNT|Uncorrected Proof
JCKC|No Jacket
BNDC|Original Wraps
PBPL|San Francisco
PBYR|2002
BOOC|NF
SIZE|8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
BTYP|Advanced Reading Copy (ARC)
STAT|For Sale
PPRC|1
PDSC|SHELF 9
BOOE|

And why would there be? The software itself is more or less dead. So why make this? Because books – lots of books (seriously don't ask).

AUTHOR: Charlie Robbins

LICENSE: APACHE 2.0