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buku

Privacy-aware command-line bookmark manager with a portable, mergeable database, powerful search, and an optional local web UI.

Alternative to: Raindrop.io, Pocket and Shaarli
Open Source Command-Line Bookmarking Privacy-Aware Python
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About buku

buku is a command-line bookmark manager built as a text-based mini-web, storing bookmarks in a private, portable, mergeable SQLite database with no tracking, hidden history, or usage analytics. It can auto-import bookmarks directly from Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, Vivaldi (including Internal), Brave, and Edge, or fetch a URL's title, tags, and description from the web when adding manually. Bookmarks can be added, edited, or updated through a preferred text editor, searched instantly with multiple modes (substring, ALL/ANY keyword matching, regex, tag-based, field-specific markers, deep substring scanning), and exported to or imported from HTML, XBEL, Markdown, RSS/Atom, Orgfile, or another buku database. It supports smart tag management via redirection operators, manual database encryption, multi-threaded full-database refresh, shell completion for Bash/Fish/Zsh, and a rich man page. A companion project, bukuserver, exposes a browsable local web front-end with an HTTP API for personal use, and buku itself can also be used as a Python library. Other notable features include looking up broken links via the Wayback Machine and an Easter egg for revisiting random bookmarks.

Key Features

  • Auto-import bookmarks from Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, Vivaldi, Brave, and Edge
  • Portable, mergeable SQLite database for syncing between systems
  • Powerful search: regex, substring, ALL/ANY keyword, tag, and field-marker modes
  • Import/export to HTML, XBEL, Markdown, RSS/Atom, Orgfile, or another buku DB
  • Manual database encryption with configurable iteration count
  • Optional bukuserver web UI with a personal-use HTTP API
  • Usable as a Python library with full API documentation
  • Wayback Machine lookup for broken/cached links
  • No tracking, hidden history, or usage analytics
  • Free and open-source under GPL-3.0

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