BUB : Book Uploader Bot

• Author: Rohit Dua
• Hosted : http://tools.wmflabs.org/bub/
• Email: 8ohit.dua AT gmail DOT com
• Originally created to contribute to Wikimedia Commons and Internet Archive
• LICENSE : GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3

BUB is a web-tool built in Python that downloads books from public libraries like Google-Books, and then uploads them to the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons with the help of IA-Upload tool.

Currently supported libraries:

• Google-Books
• Brasiliana-USP
• DSpace-based-library
• HathiTrust
• Digital-Memory-of-Catalonia(mdc)
• Gallica
• Manual-Wildcard

Components

The web-front code resides inside the /app directory. The /digi-lib contains the modules associated with each public library. The bot code is inside /bot directory.

Contributing

Our code is maintained on github. We follow the same guidelines as the mediawiki coding conventions. For each public library, its associated module has to be present in /digi_lib and the config file should be set accordingly.