Calibre-Web Automated

Website: github.com/crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated

Calibre-Web Automated (CWA) is a fork of Calibre-Web built to remove the manual work that stock Calibre-Web leaves to you. It keeps the same lightweight web front end for a Calibre library, then adds an ingest folder: drop a book in and CWA converts it, fetches metadata, files it in the library, enforces the cover and metadata changes you made in the UI into the actual files, and can email the result to your e-reader. It is distributed as a Docker image, which is also how it manages to run Calibre’s tools alongside the web interface.

Key Features

• Automatic ingest: watches an ingest folder, recognises 27 e-book formats, and imports new files into the Calibre library without intervention.
• Automatic conversion: converts incoming files to EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, KEPUB or PDF (28 input types are supported), with per-format behaviour configurable in the admin panel.
• Cover and metadata enforcement: edits made in the web UI are written back into the book files themselves, so send-to-Kindle and other devices see the same cover and metadata you chose.
• Backups and safety nets: processed originals are kept by default (with optional compression) so an automated step can be reversed.
• Library housekeeping: hybrid SQL and fuzzy duplicate detection with one-click merging, magic shelves built from rules, batch edit and delete, and an EPUB fixer service.
• Reading and delivery: auto-send new books to an e-reader by email, KOReader sync (KOSync), OPDS feeds and Kobo sync inherited from Calibre-Web.
• Accounts and access: CWA keeps Calibre-Web’s user management and per-user permissions, and adds OAuth 2.0 / OIDC sign-in.
• Network shares supported: a network-share mode disables SQLite WAL and switches the file watchers to polling for NFS and SMB deployments.

Licence

GPL-3.0, inherited from Calibre-Web. Because it is a fork rather than a plugin, you replace Calibre-Web with it rather than running both — Calibre-Web remains the lighter, more conservative option, and Calibre itself is still the desktop tool for heavy library editing. CWA also works well downstream of an acquisition manager such as Bindery, which can mirror imports straight into a CWA ingest folder.