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Buku

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buku (formerly markit) is a cmdline bookmark management utility written in Python3 and SQLite3. buku exists because of my monumental dependency on historious. I wanted the same database on my local system. However, I couldn't find an equally flexible cmdline solution. Hence, Buku!

You can add bookmarks to buku with tags, optionally fetch page title from web, search by keywords for matching tags or title or URL, update and remove bookmarks. You can open the URLs from search results directly in the browser. You can encrypt or decrypt the database file manually, optionally with custom number of hash passes for key generation.

The SQLite3 database file is stored in $HOME/.cache/buku/bookmarks.db for each user.

buku is GPLv3 licensed.

Changed the original project name to my son's nickname due to a possible copyright conflict.

If you find buku useful, please consider donating via PayPal.
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Features

  • Add, update or remove a bookmark
  • Add tags to bookmarks
  • Manual password protection using AES256 encryption algorithm
  • Optionally fetch page title data from the web (default: disabled)
  • Use (partial) tags or keywords to search bookmarks
  • Any or all search keyword match options
  • Unique URLs to avoid duplicates, show index if URL already exists
  • Open bookmark in browser using index
  • Open search results in browser
  • Browser (Chromium and Firefox based) errors and warnings suppression
  • Show single bookmark by ID or all bookmarks in a go
  • Refresh all bookmarks online
  • Delete all bookmarks
  • Add a bookmark at Nth index, to fill deleted bookmark indices
  • Secure parameterized SQLite3 queries to access database
  • Handle first level of redirections (reports IP blocking)
  • Unicode in URL works
  • UTF-8 request and response, page character set detection
  • Works with Python 3.x
  • Coloured output for clarity
  • Easily create compatible batch add or update scripts
  • Unformatted selective output (for creating batch update scripts)
  • Manpage for quick reference
  • Optional debug information
  • Fast and clean (no ads or clutter)
  • Minimal dependencies
  • Open source and free

Installation

buku requires Python 3.x to work.

  1. If you have git installed (the steps are tested on Ubuntu 14.04.3 x64_64):
$ git clone https://github.com/jarun/buku/  
$ cd buku
$ sudo make install

To remove, run:

$ sudo make uninstall
  1. If you do not have git installed:
    Download the latest stable release or development version source code. Extract, cd into the directory and run:
$ sudo make install

If you do not want to install, buku is standalone:

$ chmod +x buku
$ ./buku ...
  1. You need PyCrypto module for encryption support. To install it, run:
$ pip3 install pycrypto

OR, on Ubuntu,

$ sudo apt-get install python3-crypto

Usage

Operational notes:

  • It's advisable to copy URLs directly from the browser address bar, i.e., along with the leading http:// or https:// token. buku looks up title data (found within tags of HTML) from the web ONLY for fully-formed HTTP(S) URLs.
  • If the URL contains characters like ;, & or brackets they may be interpreted specially by the shell. To avoid it, add the URL within single ' or double " quotes.
  • The same URL cannot be added twice. You can update tags and re-fetch title data. You can also delete it and insert at the same index.
  • You can either add or update or delete record(s) in one instance. A combination of these operations is not supported in a single run.
  • Search works in mysterious ways:
    • Substrings match (match matches rematched) for URL, tags and title.
    • All the keywords are treated together as a single tag in the same order. Bookmarks with partial or complete tag matches are shown in results.
    • -s : match any of the keywords in URL or title. Order is irrelevant.
    • -S : match all the keywords in URL or title. Order is irrelevant.
    • Search results are indexed serially. This index is different from actual database index of a bookmark reord which is shown within () after the URL.
  • Encryption support is manual. Database file should be unlocked (-k) before using buku and locked (-l) afterwards. Note that the database file is unecrypted on creation. AES256 is used for encryption. Optionally specify (-t) the number of hash iterations to use to generate key. Default is 8 iterations.

Cmdline help:

Usage: buku [OPTIONS] KEYWORDS...
Bookmark manager. Your private Google.

Options
  -a URL tag 1, tag 2, ...   add URL as bookmark with comma separated tags
  -d N                       delete entry at DB index N (from -P output)
  -D                         delete ALL bookmarks
  -i N                       insert entry at DB index N, useful to fill deleted index
  -k                         decrypt (unlock) database file
  -l                         encrypt (lock) database file
  -o N                       open URL at DB index N in browser
  -p N                       show details of bookmark record at DB index N
  -P                         show all bookmarks along with index from DB
  -R                         refresh all bookmarks, tags retained
  -s keyword(s)              search all bookmarks for a (partial) tag or any keyword
  -S keyword(s)              search all bookmarks for a (partial) tag or all keywords
  -t N                       use N (> 0) hash iterations to generate key, works with -k, -l
  -u N                       update entry at DB index N
  -w                         fetch title info from web, works with -a, -i, -u
  -x N                       works with -P, N=1: show only URL, N=2: show URL and tag
  -z                         show debug information
                             you can either add or update or delete in one instance
                             any other option shows help and exits buku

Keys
  1-N                        open Nth search result in browser. Enter exits buku.

Examples

  1. Add a new bookmark with tags linux news and open source:
$ buku -a http://tuxdiary.com linux news, open source
Added at index 15012014

The assigned automatic index 15012014 is unique, one greater than highest index already in use in database. 2. Add a bookmark, fetch page title information from web:

$ buku -a -w http://tuxdiary.com linux news, open source
Title: [TuxDiary | Linux, open source and a pinch of leisure.]
Added at index 15012014
  1. Update existing bookmark at index 15012014 with a new tag:
$ buku -u 15012014 -w http://tuxdiary.com linux news, open source, magazine
Title: [TuxDiary | Linux, open source and a pinch of leisure.]
Updated
  1. Update or refresh full DB:
$ buku -R
  1. Delete bookmark at index 15012014:
$ buku -d 15012014
  1. Delete all bookmarks:
$ buku -D
  1. Insert a bookmark at index 15012014 (fails if index or URL exists in database):
$ buku -i 15012014 -w http://tuxdiary.com/about linux news, open source
Title: [A journey with WordPress | TuxDiary]
Added at index 15012014

This option is useful in filling deleted indices from database manually. 8. Show info on bookmark at index 15012014:

$ buku -p 15012014
  1. Show all bookmarks with real index from database:
$ buku -P
  1. Open URL at index 15012014 in browser:
$ buku -o 15012014
  1. Search bookmarks for a tag matching *kernel debugging* or any of the keywords *kernel* and *debugging* in URL or title (separately):
$ buku -s kernel debugging
  1. Search bookmarks for a tag matching *kernel debugging* or all the keywords *kernel* and *debugging* in URL or title (separately):
$ buku -S kernel debugging
  1. Encrypt/decrypt DB with custom number of iterations to generate key:
$ buku -l -t 15
$ buku -k -t 15

The same number of iterations must be used for one lock & unlock instance. 14. Show debug info:

$ buku -z
  1. Show help:
$ buku
  1. Check manpage:
$ man buku
  1. buku doesn't have any import feature of its own. To import URLs in bulk, create a script with URLs and tags like the following (check TIP below):
#!/bin/bash
buku -aw https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/ networking, device drivers
buku -aw https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/ece390/books/artofasm/ArtofAsm.html assembly
buku -aw http://www.tittbit.in/
buku -aw http://www.mikroe.com/chapters/view/65/ electronics
buku -aw "http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb470206(v=vs.85).aspx" file systems
buku -aw http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linuxboot/index.html boot process

Make the script executable and run to batch add bookmarks. 18. To update selected URLs (refresh) along with your tags, first get the unformatted selective output with URL and tags:

$ buku -P -x 2 | tee myurls

Remove the lines you don't need. Add buku -wu in front of all the other lines (check TIP below). Should look like:

#!/bin/bash
buku -wu 50 https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/ networking, device drivers
buku -wu 51 https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/ece390/books/artofasm/ArtofAsm.html assembly
buku -wu 52 http://www.tittbit.in/
buku -wu 53 http://www.mikroe.com/chapters/view/65/ electronics
buku -wu 54 "http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb470206(v=vs.85).aspx" file systems
buku -wu 55 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linuxboot/index.html boot process

Run the script:

$ chmod +x myurls
$ ./myurls

TIP:
To add the same text at the beginning of multiple lines using vim editor:

  • Press Ctrl-v to select the first column of text in the lines you want to change (visual mode).
  • Press Shift-i and type the text you want to insert.
  • Hit Esc, wait 1 second and the inserted text will appear on every line.

Using sed:

$ sed -i 's/^/buku -wu /' filename

#License GPL v3
Copyright (C) 2015 by Arun Prakash Jana

Contributions

I would love to see pull requests with the following features:

  • Exact word match (against substring in a word as it works currently. Hint: REGEXP)
  • Parse full page data??? Might end up writing a search engine like Google. ;)

Developer(s)

Arun Prakash Jana