audible-activator VS audible-cli

Both apps require you to have audiobooks as files and download them in an accessible format. If you have audible audiobooks, you need to convert those to an open format first using something like AAX2MP3 + audible-activator

i convert ALL my audible files to M4B using ffmpeg. using this command line: "ffmpeg -activation_bytes xxx -i ab.aax -vn -c:a copy output.m4a", where xxx is your audible auth code. you can get your auth code by using https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator. i download the aax files on my pc from the audible website. work great every time.

I would encourage users not to use OpenAudible as they tend to engage in shady practices. They've stolen code from the original inAudible project and then released it as a closed-source commercial project. Users have complained about losing access to OpenAudible after upgrading: OpenAudible v3.3 upgrade warning/alert

You can use https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator, which is what OpenAudible supposedly stole their code from. And to convert the aax files you can use https://github.com/KrumpetPirate/AAXtoMP3.

It worth noting the OpenAudible folks “stole” the IP from the open source project audible-activator and have used it in their paid software.

https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator https://sourceforge.net/projects/aaxtomp3/

inaudible.

https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator

But had success using:

mkb79 created a powerful python app with access to the full audible api. Special shout out to him because he's single handedly done more to reverse engineer the non-public audible api than the rest of us combined.

This: https://github.com/KrumpetPirate/AAXtoMP3 + your audible key (that you can get from https://github.com/mkb79/audible-cli) is all you need.

I personally use audible-cli to download files from audible and AAXtoMP3 to decrypt them. Don't know anything about Kobo. audible-cli: https://github.com/mkb79/audible-cli AAXtoMP3: https://github.com/KrumpetPirate/AAXtoMP3

I use a combination of this for downloading https://github.com/mkb79/audible-cli

this command line program is available if you're ok with not having a GUI

One user created a plugin for my app. With these you are able to import your audible library data to Goodreads. Take a look here for more information.

For less convenient but powerful command line, there's this one, also free and open source.

It's definitely possible but I don't know of an easy way. There's a python audible api and a CLI wrapper for it. You can search this documentation page for "sample". Those are the api calls which will give you the url of the sample clip's audio file.

If you don't mind the lack of graphical interface there's also a cross platform python library with a CLI layer. It's not as intuitive to use but it's very powerful.