marcus 0.5

Index and search bookmarks from the command line.

Index and search browser bookmarks from the command line.

Works with Chrome and Firefox.

Install

pip install marcus

(hint: use --user to install into ~/.local/bin/)

Then run marcus (or ~/.local/bin/marcus) with no arguments to get help.

Index your bookmarks

The first time you run this it will take a while, depending on how many bookmarks you have.

$ marcus --index ~/.config/chromium/Default/Bookmarks
Start 2017-01-12 21:20
Indexing 10 / 1081 bookmarks
Indexing https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/central/ (0 / 1081) 0% done
Indexing http://www.ubuntu.com/ (1 / 1081) 0% done
...

To find a list of bookmark files belonging to the current user:

$ marcus --find-bookmark-files

Firefox on Linux example:

$ marcus --index ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/places.sqlite

Full-text bookmark search

$ marcus privacy
found 84

1.  Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of the individual – Decentralize Today
    https://decentralize.today/privacy-and-control-need-to-be-put-back-into-the-hands-of-the-individual-301c4c318ef8#.9uk0e4ysu
    Added: 2016-09-05
    > ...a worldwide problem. **Privacy** and control need...which will bring...
    > ...**privacy**, money and communication...be blended into one **privacy**...
    > ...ecosystem. The pinnacle...

2.  How ‘strong anonymity’ will finally fix the privacy problem
    http://venturebeat.com/2016/10/08/how-strong-anonymity-will-finally-fix-the-privacy-problem/
    Added: 2016-10-09
    > ...You have zero **privacy** anyway. Get over...to protect their **privacy** in...
    > ...an online world...

3.  Germany planning to ′massively′ limit privacy rights | Germany | DW.COM | 25.11.2016
    http://m.dw.com/en/germany-planning-to-massively-limit-privacy-rights/a-36529692
    Added: 2016-12-02
    > ...major limitation of **privacy** rights in Germany...massive" erosion of...
    > ...**privacy** in Germany. De Maiziere...authorities, say **privacy** groups "The...
    > ...limitation...

...

You can also use more complex queries like privacy AND github.com for example.

Automated indexing

Edit your user’s crontab with crontab -e and then add a line at the bottom like this:

17 * * * * $PATH-TO-BINARY/marcus --index ~/.config/chromium/Default/Bookmarks >> $HOME/.marcus.log 2>&1

Which will run the indexer every hour at 17 minutes past the hour. Pages which have already been indexed will not be indexed again.

Patches welcome. Enjoy!