buku

What's in?

• Option --suggest to list and choose similar tags when adding a bookmark
• Ask for a unique tag when importing bookmarks
• Ignore non-generic URLs when importing browser exported bookmarks

What's in?

• Handle negative indices (like tail) with option -p
• Support browsing bookmarks from prompt (key o)
• Add program search keywords to history
• Support XDG_DATA_HOME and HOME as env vars on all platforms
• Replace %USERPROFILE% with %APPDATA% as install location on Windows

What's in?

• Edit bookmarks in EDITOR at prompt
• Import folder names as tags from browser html (thanks @mohammadKhalifa)
• Append, overwrite, delete tags at prompt using >>, >, << (familiar, eh? ;))
• Negative indices with --print (like tail)
• Update in EDITOR along with --immutable
• Request HTTP HEAD for immutable records
• Interface revamp (title on top in bold, colour changes...)
• Per-level colourful logs in colour mode
• Changes in program OPTIONS
  • -t stands for tag search (earlier --title)
  • -r stands for regex search (earlier --replace)
• Lots of new automated test cases (thanks @rachmadaniHaryono)
• REST APIs for server-side apps (thanks @kishore-narendran)
• Document, notify behaviour when not invoked from tty (thanks @The-Compiler)
• Fix Firefox tab-opening issues on Windows (thanks @dertuxmalwieder)

Modifications

• New option --write to compose and edit bookmarks in text editor
• Support positional arguments as search keywords
• New option --oa to search and open results directly in browser
• Autodetect Markdown mode by file extension during export, import
• Shortened options:
  • --nc replaces --nocolor
  • --np replaces --noprompt
  • -V replaces --upstream
• Option --markdown removed as the mode is autodetected now

Modifications

• Multithreaded full DB refresh with delayed writes
• Customize number of threads for full DB refresh (default 4)
• Support search and update results in a go
• Support shortened URL expansion
• Support multiple bookmarks with --open
• Support --nocolor (for scripting, Windows users)
• Support https_proxy with --upstream and --shorten
• Remove trailing / from search tokens (like Google search)
• Support --version to show program version
• Fixed #109: Missing + when shortening URL
• Performance optimizations, few module dependency removals

News

Buku will be officially available on Ubuntu 17.04, to be released on Apr 13, 2017.

Modifications

• Continuous search at (redesigned) prompt
• urllib3 for all HTTP operations
• Use HTTP HEAD method for pdf and txt mime types
• Add user agent (Firefox 50 on Ubuntu)
• Support URL shortening (using tny.im)
• List bookmarks by tag index in tag list
• Show tag usage count in tag list
• Store tags in lowercase (use undocumented option --fixtags to fix old tags)
• Support environment variable https_proxy
• Support option --immutable to pin titles
• Keyword immutable to search (-S) pinned titles
• Show index in Json output
• New key q to quit prompt
• Support deflate compression
• Add option --tacit to reduce verbosity of some operations
• Removed option --st, only --stag to search tags
• Support custom DB file location (for library, not exposed to user)

Modifications

• Support Markdown import/export
• Support regex search
• New option --upstream to check latest upstream version
• Fix search and delete behaviour
• Lot of code reformatting, performance improvements
• Use delayed commit wherever possible (e.g. bulk deletion cases)
• When a range is specified, consider 0 as ALL
• Added option to control verbosity in some APIs
• In-source documentation update

Modifications

• Export specific tags to HTML
• Fixed obvious issues on Windows
• Open a random bookmark with option --open
• Support lists and ranges with --print
• Show a bookmark on tag append
• Show only title with --format=3
• PEP8 compliance fixes
• Buku GUI integration documented

News

• Buku is available on Debian Sid now!

Modifications

• Exact word match support using regex (default)
• New option --deep to scan matching substrings, even within URLs
• Support DB index lists and ranges in update operation
• Open a list or range of search results in browser
• Open all search results in browser
• A more concise prompt
• PEP8 compliance (almost)
• Tons of new test cases added (thanks @wheresmyjetpack)

Modifications

• Delete a range or a list of indices
• Delete tag from tagset by bookmark index
• Delete results of a particular search
• Linked to rofi front-end script project for Buku
• Use the logging framework for debug info instead of print
• Fixed an issue with gzip stream decoding
• Using only relative path to fetch resource on server
• Fixed auto-completion errors with zsh
• A lot of code cleanup and globals removed, additional test cases

NOTE: Change in dependencies - cryptography, bs4.

Modifications

• Export bookmarks to Firefox bookmarks formatted HTML
• Merge Buku database
• .deb package for Debian and Ubuntu family
• Switch from PyCrypto to cryptography (thanks @asergi)
• Append tags support
• Filter tags for duplicates and sort alphabetically
• Travis CI integration, more test cases (thanks @poikjhn)
• Show DB index in bold in search results
• Several performance optimizations

Modifications

• Import bookmarks from Firefox, Google Chrome or IE html bookmark exports
• Support comments on bookmarks
• Prettier output using symbols (> title, + comments, # tags)
• New option (--st, --stag) to search by tag
• New option (--noprompt) for noninteractive mode
• New options (--url and --tag)
• --update now handles each option (url, tag, title, comment) independently
• Several messages removed or moved to debug

Modifications

To begin with, 2.0 is a significant release with respect to options. Buku now has fewer options with more (and merged) functionality. Please go through the program help at least once to understand the changes.

• Replace getopt with argparse for parsing arguments
• Long options for each short option
• Options changed
  • insert: removed as automatic DB compaction serves the purpose (previously -i)
  • iterations: removed as optional argument to -l and -k (previously -t)
  • title: -t is now the short option to set title manually (previously -m)
  • Special search keywords for ALL search (-S):
    • tags: show all tags (previously -g)
    • blank: show bookmarks with empty tags (previously -e)
  • lock/unlock: now accepts number of hash iterations to generate key
  • format: print formatting option changed to -f (previously -x)
  • help: option added to show program help
• Following options apply to ALL bookmarks without arguments
  • -u, --update
  • -d, --delete
  • -p, --print
• Shell-completion scripts for Bash, Fish and Zsh
• Warn if URL is not HTTP(S)
• More comprehensive help
• Fix a bug with deletion when only one entry in DB
• Some import dependencies removed or late loaded (if optional)
• Handle exception if DB file is encrypted or invalid

Modifications

• New location for database file (refer to README or man page). The old database file, if exists, is migrated automatically.
• Removed options
  • -P: (print all) is now -p 0
  • -D: (delete all) is now -d 0
  • -R: (update all) is now -u 0
  • -w: title web fetch is now the default behaviour, override with -m title option
• Change in search behaviour
  • -s: search bookmarks for ANY keyword in URL, title or tags
  • -S: search bookmarks for ALL keywords in URL, title or tags
• Update only title of a bookmark (-u N)
• Set empty title (-m none)
• Support HTTP(S) gzip compression
• Optional JSON output for -p and -s options (thanks @CaptainQuirk)
• Reformatted help and man page with general options on top
• Optimize add and insert: ensure URL is not in DB already
• Handle URLs passed with %xx escape
• Retry with truncated resource path on HTTP error 500
• Several code optimizations
• Catchier errors and warnings
• Version added to debug logs

Modifications

• Auto compact DB on single record removal
• Handle piped input
• Better tag management
  • Tag modify or delete support
  • Show unique tags alphabetically
• Full DB refresh
  • Fix stuff broken earlier
  • Optimize to update titles only
  • Update titles only if non-empty to preserve earlier data
• Redirection
  • Handle multiple redirections
  • Detect redirection loop and break
  • Show redirected link in bold
• List all bookmarks with no title or tags (for manual bookkeeping)
• Confirm full DB removal
• Better comma (,) separator handling for tags
• Help
  • Place regular options before power options in program help
  • Help added in man page for quick reference
  • Additional examples for new features
• Errors & warnings
  • Error out if both encrypted and flat DB files exist
  • Catchier error and warning messages
  • Graceful SIGINT handler
• Homebrew and Linuxbrew integration
• Lots of reformatting and redundant code removal

Modifications

• Add title manually using option -m
• Unquote redirected URL
• Quit on Ctrl-d at prompt
• More dynamic shebang for python3

Modifications

• Stronger encryption: 256-bit salt, multi-hash key.
• Allow user to specify number of iterations to generate key (check option -t).

Modifications

• Project name changed to Buku to avoid any copyright issues. This also means old users have to move the database file. Run:
• Manual AES256 encryption and decryption support (password protection) implemented. This adds dependency on PyCrypto module. Installation instructions updated in README.
• Some typos fixed (thanks @GuilhermeHideki)

Modifications

• Refresh full bookmark database. Fetch titles from the web, retain tags.
• Notify empty titles in red during online add or update.

Modifications

• Introduced -S search option to match ALL keywords in URL or title
• Introduced -x option to show unformatted selective output (for creating batch scripts)
• Added examples on batch add and update (refresh) scripts
• Handle multiple title tags in page
• Handle title data within another tag (e.g. head)
• Show DB index in search results, removal and update confirmation message