ToDo list
Author: jarunCreated Nov 25, 2020Updated Dec 7, 2025
Continued from #343.
Notes
Please check the open issues for an area to contribute. bukuserver has several open features requests.
The list below is a growing one. While suggesting new features please consider contributing to Buku. The code is intentionally kept simple and easy to understand with comments. We'll be happy to assist any new contributor. We need your help!
Some of the fresh-baked features may not have been released yet. Grab the master branch for those.
Cooking
None yet.
Identified tasks
- auto-import from Brave Browser
-
amd64docker image (will be built starting from next release) - sorting bookmarks by absence/presence of a specific tag
- reordering all bookmarks in DB (based on specified sorting)
- support overriding default URI scheme for
browse()(@meonkeys) - include a
Sec-Fetch-Modeheader when fetching a webpage (in case the website admin cares about that) - source: renaming main file to
buku.py(which is the name it gets installed as) - packaging: migrating from
setup.pytopyproject.toml(@branchvincent) - packaging: installing the manpage into
pipxvenv (@branchvincent) - Python: adding v3.14, removing v3.9
- API: improved BukuCrypt
- Bukuserver: Swagger-based interactive documentation for the web-API
- Bukuserver: option to change initial value of Fetch checkbox in Create Bookmark form
- Bukuserver: migrate from Bootstrap v3 to v4
- migrate to the upcoming flask-admin v2 (see #753)
- support offline bookmark addition
- support gemini protocol
- support archive.is
- bukuserver: disable favicon by default
- bukuserver: bookmarklet documentation (see #385)
- bukuserver: thumbnail
- bukuserver: add login feature (see #309)
- bukuserver: generate separate package (see #307)
- Import keywords from browser html (see #311)
- Android app (with the same schema) (probably a separate project)
- Add option
--preserveto ignore specific fields during auto-update [see issue #327] - support Vivaldi browser
- better XBEL compatibility
- check for empty search results in piped operations
- Test cases for
exportdb()API (@rachmadaniHaryono) - Purge db file when all records are deleted
- Fix tests, which are taking long time to finish (thanks @rachmadaniHaryono)
- Import firefox exported json (title, url, tags, desc; parent folder if opted) [see API
importdb()] (thanks @ckolumbus) - Disable fetch from web during auto-import, import and merge
- Honor
-nwith-p(thanks @jpdasma) - Support search options with
--export - Import "description" (into description field) and "keywards" (as tags) from
HTML <meta> Tag - Result pagination
- Convert bukuserver README from rst to markdown
- Browse a bookmark (possibly dead URL) on Wayback machine
- Show bookmarks to be deleted before deletion
- Support keyword filtering (records having keywords
aandbbut notcandd) (thanks @SaltyCatFish) - Support filtering by tags with search options (see #250) (thanks @SaltyCatFish)
- Port feature from
googler/ddgr- omniprompt keyO - Show results with most search keyword matches on top (thanks @mosegontar)
- Text-mode user agent for Buku
- Copy search result URL to cipboard
- Read default Firefox profile name from
profiles.ini(see #212, thanks @alex-bender) - Support
--formatin search results (ref, thanks @mosegontar) - API documentation (comments need to be in NumPy format) (thanks @mosegontar)
- Auto-import: optionally add parent folder name as tag, ask for unique tag [like
importdb()] - Support custom colours (thanks @shv-q3)
- Generate packages on Travis-CI using PackageCore (see #189) (thanks @shaggytwodope)
- Search multiple tags, exclusion in tag search (thanks @mosegontar)
- Auto-import Firefox and Google Chrome bookmarks (thanks @alex-bender)
- Suggest tags those go together
- Append/overwrite/remove tags from prompt
- Add more tests (ongoing activity @rachmadaniHaryono)
- A browser plugin (thanks @SamHH for bukubrow)
- Text editor support (thanks @ZwodahS)
- Need a PyPI maintainer (thanks @shaggytwodope)
- Make refreshdb faster using threads (record updates should be synchronized)
- Show usage count in tag list
- Proxy support (thanks @denisfalqueto)
- Continuous search at prompt
- Add prompt help
- Specify custom DB file to class BukuDb (library usage, no exposed option)
- Move to urllib3
- Handle redirects using referrer masking. Example URL. Fixed with urllib3.
- Support URL shortening. This helps to share URLs. (see #92 for limitations)
- Make a bookmark title immutable via refreshdb()
- Markdown import/export
- Regex search
- Ubuntu PPA (thanks @shaggytwodope)
- Export specific tags to HTML
- Exact word match using REGEX. Make substring match optional.
- Delete all records based on a search result
- Delete multiple items, support combination of indices and ranges
- Append tags
- Travis CI integration
- Ubuntu deb package generation on new tag
- Merge bookmark database files (for users who work on multiple systems)
- Export bookmarks in FF or Chrome html format.
- Option to add folder names as tags while importing HTML (thanks @mohammadKhalifa)
- Check and show upstream version
- Anything else which would add value (please discuss in this thread)
Source: jarun/buku