# BookGen

Command-line toolchain that builds books, static websites, feeds and EPUB files from Markdown, written in C#.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/bookgen/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/webmaster442/BookGen
- docs: https://github.com/webmaster442/BookGen/blob/master/Docs/manual.md

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Ruzsinszki Gábor
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2019
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: static
- language: csharp
- runtime: dotnet, binary
- runtimeMin: dotnet 10
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: flat-file
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: mustache
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: binary download

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: unknown
- latestReleaseDate: 2025-01-19

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 23
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 3
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/webmaster442/BookGen (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://github.com/webmaster442/BookGen/blob/master/Docs/manual.md (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://github.com/webmaster442/BookGen/blob/master/LICENCE (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainerType: https://api.github.com/users/webmaster442 (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/webmaster442/BookGen (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://github.com/webmaster442/BookGen/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://github.com/webmaster442/BookGen/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://api.github.com/repos/webmaster442/BookGen/releases/latest (read 2026-10-23)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/webmaster442/BookGen/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- contentStore: https://github.com/webmaster442/BookGen/blob/master/Docs/manual.md (read 2026-10-23)
- templating: https://github.com/webmaster442/BookGen/blob/master/Docs/manual.md (read 2026-10-23)
- renderingModes: https://github.com/webmaster442/BookGen/blob/master/Docs/manual.md (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://github.com/webmaster442/BookGen/blob/master/Docs/manual.md (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://github.com/webmaster442/BookGen/blob/master/Docs/manual.md (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://github.com/webmaster442/BookGen/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/webmaster442/BookGen (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/webmaster442/BookGen/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/webmaster442/BookGen/releases?per_page=100 (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/webmaster442/BookGen/releases?per_page=100 (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/webmaster442/BookGen (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/webmaster442/BookGen/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-23)

## Notes

BookGen is a command-line toolchain for writing books and documentation in Markdown. The [manual](https://github.com/webmaster442/BookGen/blob/master/Docs/manual.md) lists the build commands, which write a static website, an EPUB 3 file, printable HTML and XHTML, a WordPress export XML, or RSS and Atom feeds.

Page templates use mustache-style tags. The README names a Scripting API and Node.js and Python scripts as ways to extend the tool.

## Worth knowing

The README says it is designed to be cross platform, but the author mainly develops and tests it on Windows.

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Credit, in full: FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0