What's in?

• Auto-import (--ai) bookmarks from Firefox and Google Chrome
  • Unfortunately, the feature breaks if Firefox is not installed. This is fixed in master. Till the next release (v3.4), please use master or install Firefox.
• Support custom colors (--colors)
• Search multiple tags (with exclusion)
• Timestamp (YYYYMonDD) tag in auto-imported bookmarks
• Enable browser output for text browsers
• Documentation in RTD (http://buku.readthedocs.io)
• Integrated flake8 and pylint in Travis CI
• Integrated PackageCore to auto-generate packages in Travis CI

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)