Sync and browse your Storytel library from a tiny self-hosted web app.
storytel-sync periodically mirrors your Storytel bookshelf to your own disk and exposes a minimal web UI so any third-party audiobook player (Smart TVs, car head-units, mobile apps, etc.) can stream or download the files even on platforms not officially supported by Storytel.
The project started as storytel-tui by Javier Sánchez Parra - many thanks for the original implementation! It has since been rewritten to an asynchronous Rust web service, dropped the MPV and OpenSSL dependencies, and gained automatic background synchronisation.
The app is developed and tested on GNU/Linux x86-64. It should run anywhere Rust and
actix-web work (macOS, ARM SBCs, …) but is presently untested.
• Responsive bookshelf web page • One-click on-demand download • 24 h periodic background sync • Single static binary - no external media players required
Create a config.toml (or .json) file:
email = "me@example.com"
password = "my-storytel-password"
download_dir = "/srv/audiobooks"
sync_enabled = true # optional, default = falsePass the file on start-up:
storytel-sync --config /path/to/config.toml
cargo build --release
target/release/storytel-sync --config ./config.tomlOnly the standard Rust tool-chain is required.
docker run -d \
-p 8080:8080 \
-v $(pwd)/config.toml:/app/config.toml:ro \
-v $(pwd)/downloads:/downloads \
ghcr.io/<org>/storytel-sync:latest \
--config /app/config.toml
The source code of this project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.