[Script request]: Autocaliweb

[BramMusters]

Application Name

Autocaliweb

Website

https://github.com/gelbphoenix/autocaliweb

Description

Since Calibre-Web is not listed anymore due to a security issue, perhaps it's a good idea to have an alternative like Autocaliweb?

Due Diligence

• I have searched existing scripts and found no duplicates.
• I have searched existing discussions and found no duplicate requests.

[vhsdream]

I tried to port Autocaliweb's predecessor (Calibre-Web Automated) to a helper script in the past but the amount of hoops I had to jump through to get it to fit the style/format of helper scripts caused us to defer it. I've reopened the CWA project due to the dev picking up again but haven't had time to check out the new changes to see if it's now feasible.

I've since been using Autocaliweb with the manual install script that is in the repo and it works OK. How do you think a helper script could improve the user experience over simply creating an LXC and running the existing script?

@MickLesk Autocaliweb uses a very similar structure to Calibre-Web Automated in that there are a lot of hardcoded paths that generally conflict with the typical structure of apps installed via helper script. How far are we allowed to deviate from it?

[MickLesk]

If you maintain it, add it to your risk Like immich 😄

[BramMusters]

Yeah, actually I recall running your script but it corrupted my Calibre due to the paths being changed in between..
Do you mean to spin up a regular Debian LXC and then the manual script?

[vhsdream]

@BramMusters Yes, that's how I currently run Autocaliweb, and aside from the script not yet packaging the KOReader Sync plugin it works well.

I'll see if I can throw together a script that borrows heavily from the manual install method by this weekend, and see if it passes muster with everybody. This time I'll try to keep it simple!

[BramMusters]

That would be amazing! I don't know how to do it myself, since I'm quite new to this world, but I'm willing to test it out for you ;)

[Krissverse]

Where can I see more information about the calibre-web script being removed? I searched the ProxmoxVE changelog and the web and nothing is popping up even mentioning it was removed. Just curious when and what happened!

[MickLesk]

#6249

[vhsdream]

So, a few days ago a PR was merged in the Autocaliweb repo that removed hardcoded file and directory paths. This may mean that a helper script for Autocaliweb is possible with way less headache involved.

[vhsdream]

Link to script removed.

[Hydro8]

Hi
thanks For your script. I tried to use it but I have this error :

`⠴ Initializing databases
[ERROR] in line 118: exit code 0: while executing command curl -fsSL https://github.com/gelbphoenix/autocaliweb/raw/refs/heads/master/library/metadata.db -o "$CALIBRE_LIB_DIR"/metadata.db

[ERROR] in line 1446: exit code 22: while executing command lxc-attach -n "$CTID" -- bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVED/main/install/${var_install}.sh)"

/dev/fd/63: line 49: exit: lxc-attach -n "$CTID" -- bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVED/main/install/${var_install}.sh)": numeric argument required

[vhsdream]

Thanks - at the moment I'm waiting on a bugfix in the Autocaliweb repo then I'll continue working on the script.

[vhsdream]

The autocaliweb script is ready for testing:
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVED/raw/main/ct/autocaliweb.sh)"
Default credentials:
Username: admin
Password: admin123

Note: This is not in the official repo yet—it's just a dev version! After merging into ProxmoxVE, it will need to be recreated.

[florianmueller]

just tested it on proxmox 9.0.6 cluster, works great with default setup, no errors. Thank you for the effort

[BramMusters]

Same on I think proxmox 8!

[Aaron-K]

Tested with proxmox 8 and worked great. No errors. Thanks @vhsdream. Looking forward to the full release.