diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d40b54f..dfb023a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added
+
+- Index ePub documents for full-text search, with a new `get_epub_index_data` helper and automatic indexing of ePub items, like PDFs already are (#333)
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - Carry a script's top-level `const`, `let` and `class` declarations across the wombat block, so other scripts on the page can still see them (#329)
diff --git a/src/zimscraperlib/zim/indexing.py b/src/zimscraperlib/zim/indexing.py
index b23cb5b..3413e15 100644
--- a/src/zimscraperlib/zim/indexing.py
+++ b/src/zimscraperlib/zim/indexing.py
@@ -62,8 +62,17 @@ def content(self, value: str):
     "lcms: not an ICC profile, invalid signature.",
     "format error: cmsOpenProfileFromMem failed",
     "ignoring broken ICC profile",
+    # MuPDF only knows EPUB 2 but reads EPUB 3 documents fine
+    "unknown epub version: 3.0",
 ]
 
+# messages carrying a document-specific detail, ignored by prefix; images and
+# styles do not matter for the text content
+IGNORED_MUPDF_MESSAGE_PREFIXES = (
+    "html: cannot load image",
+    "syntax error: css syntax error",
+)
+
 
 def get_pdf_index_data(
     *,
@@ -75,6 +84,34 @@ def get_pdf_index_data(
 
     PDF can be passed either as content or fileobject or filepath
     """
+    return _get_document_index_data(
+        filetype="pdf", content=content, fileobj=fileobj, filepath=filepath
+    )
+
+
+def get_epub_index_data(
+    *,
+    content: str | bytes | None = None,
+    fileobj: io.BytesIO | None = None,
+    filepath: pathlib.Path | None = None,
+) -> IndexData:
+    """Returns the IndexData information for a given EPUB
+
+    EPUB can be passed either as content or fileobject or filepath
+    """
+    return _get_document_index_data(
+        filetype="epub", content=content, fileobj=fileobj, filepath=filepath
+    )
+
+
+def _get_document_index_data(
+    *,
+    filetype: str,
+    content: str | bytes | None = None,
+    fileobj: io.BytesIO | None = None,
+    filepath: pathlib.Path | None = None,
+) -> IndexData:
+    """IndexData of any document PyMuPDF can read, title built from its metadata"""
 
     # do not display all pymupdf errors, we will filter them afterwards
     pymupdf.TOOLS.mupdf_display_errors(  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownMemberType]
@@ -82,26 +119,26 @@ def get_pdf_index_data(
     )
 
     if content:
-        doc = pymupdf.open(stream=content)
+        doc = pymupdf.open(stream=content, filetype=filetype)
     elif fileobj:
-        doc = pymupdf.open(stream=fileobj)
+        doc = pymupdf.open(stream=fileobj, filetype=filetype)
     else:
-        doc = pymupdf.open(filename=filepath)
+        doc = pymupdf.open(filename=filepath, filetype=filetype)
     metadata = (  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownVariableType, reportUnknownMemberType]
         doc.metadata
     )
     title = ""
-    if metadata:  # pragma: no branch (always metadata in test PDFs)
+    if metadata:  # pragma: no branch (always metadata in test documents)
         parts: list[str] = []
         for key in ["title", "author", "subject"]:
             if metadata.get(key):  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownMemberType]
                 parts.append(
                     metadata[key]  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownArgumentType]
                 )
-        if parts:  # pragma: no branch (always metadata in test PDFs)
+        if parts:  # pragma: no branch (always metadata in test documents)
             title = " - ".join(parts)
 
-    def get_pdf_content(page: pymupdf.Page) -> str:
+    def get_page_content(page: pymupdf.Page) -> str:
         text = (  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownVariableType]
             page.get_text()  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownMemberType]
         )
@@ -109,7 +146,7 @@ def get_pdf_content(page: pymupdf.Page) -> str:
             raise Exception("Unexpected text content")
         return text
 
-    content = "\n".join(get_pdf_content(page) for page in doc)
+    content = "\n".join(get_page_content(page) for page in doc)
 
     # build list of messages and filter messages which are known to not be relevant
     # in our use-case
@@ -117,12 +154,13 @@ def get_pdf_content(page: pymupdf.Page) -> str:
         warning
         for warning in pymupdf.TOOLS.mupdf_warnings().splitlines()
         if warning not in IGNORED_MUPDF_MESSAGES
+        and not warning.startswith(IGNORED_MUPDF_MESSAGE_PREFIXES)
     )
 
     if mupdf_messages:
         logger.warning(
             f"PyMuPDF issues:\n{mupdf_messages}"
-        )  # pragma: no cover (no known error in test PDFs)
+        )  # pragma: no cover (no known error in test documents)
 
     return IndexData(
         title=title,
diff --git a/src/zimscraperlib/zim/items.py b/src/zimscraperlib/zim/items.py
index f0f4650..418cc8a 100644
--- a/src/zimscraperlib/zim/items.py
+++ b/src/zimscraperlib/zim/items.py
@@ -12,7 +12,11 @@
 
 from zimscraperlib.download import stream_file
 from zimscraperlib.filesystem import get_content_mimetype, get_file_mimetype
-from zimscraperlib.zim.indexing import IndexData, get_pdf_index_data
+from zimscraperlib.zim.indexing import (
+    IndexData,
+    get_epub_index_data,
+    get_pdf_index_data,
+)
 from zimscraperlib.zim.providers import (
     FileLikeProvider,
     FileProvider,
@@ -75,8 +79,8 @@ class StaticItem(Item):
     the Item and we can be notified that we're effectively through with our content
 
     By default, content is automatically indexed (either by the libzim itself for
-    supported documents - text or html for now or by the python-scraperlib - only PDF
-    supported for now). If you do not want this, set `auto_index` to False to disable
+    supported documents - text or html for now or by the python-scraperlib - PDF and
+    ePub for now). If you do not want this, set `auto_index` to False to disable
     both indexing (libzim and python-scraperlib).
 
     It is also possible to pass index_data to configure custom indexing of the item.
@@ -160,6 +164,9 @@ def _get_auto_index(self):
             if mimetype == "application/pdf":
                 index_data = get_pdf_index_data(content=content)
                 self.get_indexdata = lambda: index_data
+            elif mimetype == "application/epub+zip":
+                index_data = get_epub_index_data(content=content)
+                self.get_indexdata = lambda: index_data
             else:
                 return
 
@@ -174,6 +181,9 @@ def _get_auto_index(self):
             if mimetype == "application/pdf":
                 index_data = get_pdf_index_data(fileobj=fileobj)
                 self.get_indexdata = lambda: index_data
+            elif mimetype == "application/epub+zip":
+                index_data = get_epub_index_data(fileobj=fileobj)
+                self.get_indexdata = lambda: index_data
             else:
                 return
 
@@ -190,6 +200,11 @@ def _get_auto_index(self):
                 self.get_indexdata = (  # pyright:ignore [reportIncompatibleVariableOverride]
                     lambda: index_data
                 )
+            elif mimetype == "application/epub+zip":
+                index_data = get_epub_index_data(filepath=filepath)
+                self.get_indexdata = (  # pyright:ignore [reportIncompatibleVariableOverride]
+                    lambda: index_data
+                )
             else:
                 return
 
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index 817e004..af4a3c7 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import pathlib
+import zipfile
 
 import pytest
 import requests
@@ -240,3 +241,67 @@ def undecodable_byte_stream() -> bytes:
         b"\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"
         b"\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"
     )
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+def epub_file(tmpdir_factory: pytest.TempdirFactory) -> pathlib.Path:
+    """Minimal EPUB 3 with title/author metadata and two chapters"""
+    dst = pathlib.Path(tmpdir_factory.mktemp("data") / "minimal.epub")
+    # a missing image and a CSS selector MuPDF does not support, as found in
+    # real-world ePubs, make MuPDF warn without affecting the text
+    chapter = (
+        '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'
+        '<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>{title}</title>'
+        '<style>img[src*="wiki"] {{ border: 0 }}</style>'
+        "</head><body><h1>{title}</h1><p>{text}</p>"
+        '<img src="images/missing.png" alt=""/></body></html>'
+    )
+    with zipfile.ZipFile(dst, "w") as epub:
+        # mimetype must be the first entry, uncompressed
+        epub.writestr("mimetype", "application/epub+zip", zipfile.ZIP_STORED)
+        epub.writestr(
+            "META-INF/container.xml",
+            '<?xml version="1.0"?>'
+            '<container version="1.0" '
+            'xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:container">'
+            '<rootfiles><rootfile full-path="OEBPS/content.opf" '
+            'media-type="application/oebps-package+xml"/></rootfiles></container>',
+        )
+        epub.writestr(
+            "OEBPS/content.opf",
+            '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'
+            '<package xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" version="3.0" '
+            'unique-identifier="id">'
+            '<metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">'
+            '<dc:identifier id="id">urn:uuid:7c2b1a52-1d4e-4b0e-9c55-3f7e1d2a9b10'
+            "</dc:identifier>"
+            "<dc:title>Lighthouse Almanac</dc:title>"
+            "<dc:creator>Ada Quillfeather</dc:creator>"
+            "<dc:language>en</dc:language>"
+            '<meta property="dcterms:modified">2026-01-01T00:00:00Z</meta>'
+            "</metadata><manifest>"
+            '<item id="nav" href="nav.xhtml" media-type="application/xhtml+xml" '
+            'properties="nav"/>'
+            '<item id="c1" href="c1.xhtml" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>'
+            '<item id="c2" href="c2.xhtml" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>'
+            '</manifest><spine><itemref idref="c1"/><itemref idref="c2"/></spine>'
+            "</package>",
+        )
+        epub.writestr(
+            "OEBPS/nav.xhtml",
+            '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'
+            '<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" '
+            'xmlns:epub="http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops"><head><title>Contents</title>'
+            '</head><body><nav epub:type="toc"><ol>'
+            '<li><a href="c1.xhtml">Storm</a></li>'
+            '<li><a href="c2.xhtml">Harbour</a></li></ol></nav></body></html>',
+        )
+        epub.writestr(
+            "OEBPS/c1.xhtml",
+            chapter.format(title="Storm", text="The keeper trimmed the wick."),
+        )
+        epub.writestr(
+            "OEBPS/c2.xhtml",
+            chapter.format(title="Harbour", text="Gulls circled the breakwater."),
+        )
+    return dst
diff --git a/tests/zim/test_indexing.py b/tests/zim/test_indexing.py
index d8bf48e..3b1bed2 100644
--- a/tests/zim/test_indexing.py
+++ b/tests/zim/test_indexing.py
@@ -3,9 +3,14 @@
 
 import libzim.writer  # pyright: ignore[reportMissingModuleSource]
 import pytest
+from pytest_mock import MockerFixture
 
-from zimscraperlib.zim import Archive, Creator
-from zimscraperlib.zim.indexing import IndexData, get_pdf_index_data
+from zimscraperlib.zim import Archive, Creator, indexing
+from zimscraperlib.zim.indexing import (
+    IndexData,
+    get_epub_index_data,
+    get_pdf_index_data,
+)
 from zimscraperlib.zim.items import StaticItem
 
 
@@ -368,3 +373,46 @@ def test_index_data_wordcount(
         IndexData(title="foo", content=content, wordcount=wordcount).get_wordcount()
         == expected_wordcount
     )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("source", ["content", "fileobj", "filepath"])
+def test_get_epub_index_data(
+    source: str, epub_file: pathlib.Path, mocker: MockerFixture
+):
+    warning = mocker.patch.object(indexing.logger, "warning")
+    if source == "content":
+        index_data = get_epub_index_data(content=epub_file.read_bytes())
+    elif source == "fileobj":
+        index_data = get_epub_index_data(fileobj=io.BytesIO(epub_file.read_bytes()))
+    else:
+        index_data = get_epub_index_data(filepath=epub_file)
+    assert index_data.get_title() == "Lighthouse Almanac - Ada Quillfeather"
+    assert "The keeper trimmed the wick." in index_data.get_content()
+    assert "Gulls circled the breakwater." in index_data.get_content()
+    assert index_data.has_indexdata()
+    # MuPDF does not know EPUB 3 but reads it fine, this must not be reported
+    warning.assert_not_called()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("source", ["content", "fileobj", "filepath"])
+def test_indexing_item_epub(
+    tmp_path: pathlib.Path, epub_file: pathlib.Path, source: str
+):
+    """An EPUB item can be automatically indexed"""
+    fpath = tmp_path / "test.zim"
+    hints: dict[libzim.writer.Hint, int] = {libzim.writer.Hint.FRONT_ARTICLE: True}
+    if source == "content":
+        item = StaticItem(content=epub_file.read_bytes(), path="welcome", hints=hints)
+    elif source == "fileobj":
+        fileobj = io.BytesIO(epub_file.read_bytes())
+        item = StaticItem(fileobj=fileobj, path="welcome", hints=hints)
+    else:
+        item = StaticItem(filepath=epub_file, path="welcome", hints=hints)
+    with Creator(fpath, "welcome").config_dev_metadata() as creator:
+        creator.add_item(item)
+
+    reader = Archive(fpath)
+    assert "welcome" in list(reader.get_suggestions("lighthouse"))
+    assert "welcome" in list(reader.get_suggestions("quillfeather"))
+    assert reader.get_search_results_count("breakwater") == 1
+    assert reader.get_search_results_count("wick") == 1