Buku v2.2

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

Buku v2.1

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

Buku v2.0

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

Buku 1.9

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

Buku 1.8

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

Buku 1.7

Modifications

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

Buku 1.6

Modifications

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

Buku 1.5

Modifications

• Project name changed to Buku to avoid any copyright issues. This also means old users have to move the database file. Run:

  $ mkdir ~/.cache/buku/
  $ mv ~/.cache/markit/bookmarks.db ~/.cache/buku/bookmarks.db
  $ rm -rf ~/.cache/markit/bookmarks.db

• 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)

MarkIt v1.4

Modifications

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

MarkIt v1.2

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