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Buku
Effortlessly manage and search your browser bookmarks from the command-line with Buku, featuring tagging, importing, and encryption capabilities.
v5.1 · Stable•GPL-3.0•Since Nov 2015•Funded by donations
Overall rating
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5.6
/ 10
GitHub stars
7.2k
Contributors
75
Last commit
4 days ago
Project age
11 years
About
Buku is a command-line bookmark manager designed for speed and efficiency. It allows users to organize, search, and manage bookmarks effortlessly. With a focus on privacy, Buku stores data locally and includes powerful search capabilities, tag-based organization, and bulk editing features. Users can also fetch website metadata and integrate it with other tools or workflows.
Key Features
- Store bookmarks with auto-fetched title, tags and description
- Auto-import from Firefox, Google Chrome, Chromium and MS Edge
- 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, RSS 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)