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+# Book to Static Site
+
+This script will export all chapters and pages within a given book to a folder
+of basic HTML and image files which could act as a static site.
+
+Once ran, you should be able to open `index.html` within the output folder to start browsing.
+
+**This is a very simplistic single-script-file example of using the book, chapter and pages
+API together**, the output lacks a lot of detail including styling and inter-content link transforming. 
+
+## Requirements
+
+- php (~7.2+)
+- BookStack API ```TOKEN_ID```
+- TBookStack API ```TOKEN_SECRET```
+- Basic CSS file
+
+## Running
+
+Download the script
+```bash
+curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BookStackApp/api-scripts/main/php-book-to-static-site/book-to-static.php > book-to-static.php
+```
+
+Export Variables
+```bash
+export BS_URL=https://bookstack.example.com # Set to be your BookStack base URL
+export BS_TOKEN_ID=abc123 # Set to be your API token_id
+export BS_TOKEN_SECRET=123abc # Set to be your API token_secret
+```
+Or, alterntively, you can modify the verables in the script manualy
+
+Run the script
+```bash
+php book-to-static.php <book_url_slug> <output_dir>
+```
+
+*A url slug is the last part of the URL. In this case, that would be https://bookstack.example.com/books/**example_book*** 
+## Examples
+
+```bash
+# Export a book with URL slug of my_book to an "out" directory
+php book-to-static.php my_book ./out