Buku is a command-line bookmark manager that allows you to store your bookmarks locally on your computer. In this tutorial, we'll go through the steps to install Buku on a macOS machine.
Before we start, ensure that you have the following:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
If Python 3 is not installed on your machine, install it by running the following command:
brew install python3
After installing Python 3, you can install Buku by running the following command:
pip3 install buku
This will install all the necessary dependencies and files required to run Buku.
To test if Buku is installed correctly, run the following command:
buku --version
This should print the current version of Buku installed on your machine.
Before using Buku, you need to configure it by creating a Buku database file. Create a .buku directory in your home directory and create a database file by running the following command:
mkdir ~/.buku
touch ~/.buku/buku.db
Alternatively, you can specify a different path for the database file by running the following command:
buku --init /path/to/buku.db
Now that Buku is installed and configured, you can start adding bookmarks. Run the following command to add a bookmark:
buku add https://www.google.com/ Google
This will add a bookmark for the Google website with the tag 'Google'.
Other commands that you can use with Buku include buku search to search for bookmarks, buku edit to edit bookmarks, buku delete to delete bookmarks, and buku list to list all bookmarks.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Buku on your macOS machine. You can now use Buku to manage and organize your bookmarks.
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