# jarun/buku

:bookmark: Personal mini-web in text

Repository: https://github.com/jarun/buku
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/buku
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: bookmark, bookmark-manager, command-line, standalone, terminal, organizer, search, bookmarks, console, privacy-aware, cli
Last push: 2026-08-16T04:31:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 28, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3958, "days_push": 17, "days_rel": 269, "gap_med": 224, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7184, forks 321 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:56.476859+00:00)

## What it is
buku is a powerful command-line bookmark manager and personal textual mini-web, with a portable, merge-able database and no tracking. It also ships as a Python library and includes bukuserver, a local web front-end for GUI users.

## Use cases
- manage bookmarks from the terminal
- import bookmarks from browsers
- search bookmarks with regex and deep scan
- fetch titles, tags and descriptions of URLs automatically
- check for broken links via the Wayback Machine
- run a local web UI for my bookmarks
- keep a private, portable bookmark database

## When to choose
- you live in the terminal and want fast, scriptable bookmark management
- you care about privacy and want no tracking or analytics
- you need a portable, merge-able bookmark database
- you want both CLI and optional local web UI access

## When to avoid
- you need a full-featured cloud-synced bookmark service across devices
- you prefer a rich graphical bookmark manager without a server component
- you need team-shared or collaborative bookmarking

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, cli, database, http-client
- domain: developer-tools, privacy, web-development
- platform: windows, python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: bookmark-manager, bookmarks, privacy-aware, terminal, sqlite, bukuserver, browser-import, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- jarun/buku (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:56.476859+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:39:55.025566+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jarun/buku (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:56.476859+00:00, sha f0f6f8841a61)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/buku/json (fetched 2026-08-29T08:35:03.187666+00:00, sha 4d8261f2c488)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.