pymarks 0.0.13

PyMarks (WIP)

🌟 About

PyMarks is an efficient Python program designed to manage bookmarks. It uses SQLite3 as a database to store your bookmarks, which allows you to add, delete, and update them as necessary.

To make it easier to access your bookmarks, PyMarks provides a menu system using tools like Dmenu, Rofi, or fzf in the terminal. With this menu system, you can search and fuzzy find the bookmark you are looking for and then open it in your preferred web browser. Is an excellent tool for organizing and accessing bookmarks.

⚡️ Requirements

• Rofi (More options)
• dmenu (Optional)
• fzf (Optional)
• xclip (clipboard)

📦 Installation

You can install this tool using pipx (recommended), pip or by cloning the repository

⭐ Using pipx (recommended)

pipx install pymarks

Using pip

pip install pymarks

Clone repository

# clone repository
$ git clone "https://github.com/haaag/PyMarks"
$ cd PyMarks

# create virtual environment & source
$ python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate

# install dependencies
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

# run
$ pymarks

🚀 Usage

$ pymarks --help

PyMarks is a simple tool to assist you in efficiently
organizing and managing your bookmarks.

The tool simplifies the process of accessing, adding, updating,
and removing bookmarks.

supported menus:
   ['dmenu', 'rofi', 'fzf']

options:
    -a, --add                   Add bookmark
    -c, --copy                  Copy bookmark to system clipboar (default)
    -o, --open                  Open bookmark in default browser
    -m, --menu                  Select menu (default: rofi)
    -j, --json                  JSON formatted output
    -V, --version               Show version
    -h, --help                  Show help
    -v, --verbose               Verbose mode

optional environment variables:
    PYMARKS_HOME                Overrides default PyMarks location
    PYMARKS_BACKUP_MAX_AGE      Overrides backup age check interval
    PYMARKS_BACKUP_MAX_AMOUNT   Overrides backup max amount

⌨️ Keybinds (rofi exclusive)

Using rofi, you can use some keybinds.

📁 Folder structure

Directory structure $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pymarks

$ ~/.config/pymarks (main*) tree
├── backup
│   ├── YYYY-MM-DD_bookmarks.db
│   └── YYYY-MM-DD_bookmarks.db
└── databases
    ├── bookmarks.db <-- Default
    ├── trash.db     <-- Deleted records
    ├── private.db
    └── work.db

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• Buku 🌟 Thank You 🤘

Done

TODO

Priority

Description	Progress
Use XDG_DIRS
Add encrypt/decrypt option to database
Create deleted/removed table
Get keybinds in dmenu/fzf to work

Environment variables

Description	Progress
PYMARKS_HOME
PYMARKS_BACKUP_WATCH
PYMARKS_BACKUP_MAX_AGE
PYMARKS_BACKUP_MAX_AMOUNT

Actions

Description	Progress
Update record (tags, URL)
Delete record (tags, URL)
Option to switch databases
Option to add/remove database
Option to show information (backups, keys, records, etc)
Scrape title from website
Scrape Description from website
Multi-Select (for delete? for migrate? for any action…🤔)

Databases

Description	Progress
Add support for multi-database (e.g: personal and work)
Create trash.db or dump.db for deleted records
Option to restore from deleted to bookmark table
Option to search in ALL databases

Backups

Description	Progress
Prompt for backup every <PYMARKS_BACKUP_MAX_AGE> number of days
Option to disable check on runtime
Keep <PYMARKS_BACKUP_MAX_AMOUNT> of backup files

Misc

Description	Progress
Add renumbered for the rowid (Each time a record is deleted?)
Add URL validation when reading from clipboard