Buku is a powerful bookmark manager with a command-line interface and a GUI via bukuserver. It provides a private, portable, and merge-able database with seamless GUI integration.
Buku can import bookmarks from browsers or fetch metadata from a URL.
It supports instant search with multiple options, including regex and deep scan. It can look up broken links on the Wayback Machine and has a feature to revisit random bookmarks. Buku does not track users or keep usage analytics.
Features
- Store bookmarks with auto-fetched title, tags and description
- Auto-import from Firefox, Google Chrome, Chromium and MS Edge
- Auto completion
- Open bookmarks and search results in browser
- Shorten, expand URLs
- Browse cached page from the Wayback Machine
- Text editor integration
- Lightweight, clean interface, custom colors
- Powerful search options (regex, substring...)
- Continuous search with on the fly mode switch
- Portable, merge-able database to sync between systems
- Import/export bookmarks from/to HTML, XBEL, Markdown or Orgfile
- Smart tag management using redirection (>>, >, <<)
- Multi-threaded full DB refresh
- Manual encryption support
- Shell completion scripts, man page with examples
- Privacy-aware (no unconfirmed user data collection)
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- macOS
- Termux (Android)
License
GPL-3.0
Resources & Downloads
GitHub - jarun/buku: :bookmark: Personal mini-web in text
:bookmark: Personal mini-web in text. Contribute to jarun/buku development by creating an account on GitHub.
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