Buku

Buku Plugin

Powerful bookmark manager and personal textual mini-web with auto-fetched metadata.

Commands

Bookmark Management

• buku bookmark add — Add a bookmark
• buku bookmark search — Search bookmarks
• buku bookmark list — List all bookmarks
• buku bookmark open — Open bookmark in browser

Usage Examples

• "buku bookmark add --url https://example.com --tags dev,tools"
• "buku bookmark search --query python"
• "buku bookmark list"
• "buku bookmark open --id 1"

Installation

pip install buku
# or
brew install buku

Examples

# Add a bookmark with tags
buku --add https://example.com --tags dev,tools

# Add bookmark with custom title
buku --add https://example.com --title "My Site" --tag personal

# Search bookmarks by tag
buku --sdb tag:dev

# Search bookmarks by regex
buku --sdb python

# List all bookmarks
buku --print

# Print specific bookmark
buku --print 1

# Open bookmark in browser
buku --open 1

# Import bookmarks from browser
buku --import browser=firefox

# Export bookmarks to Markdown
buku --export bookmarks.md

Key Features

• Auto-fetch titles, tags, and descriptions from URLs
• Powerful search with regex and deep scan mode
• Import/export from HTML, XBEL, Markdown, RSS/Atom
• Portable SQLite database
• Tag management with smart redirection
• Privacy-aware (no user data collection)
• Can be used as Python library
• Browser integration