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Buku

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A self-hosted alternative to Evernote

About

buku is a bookmark manager aimed at users who prefer a command-line workflow but still want a private, portable, and flexible way to organize links. It stores bookmarks in a mergeable database, can...

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Features

  • bookmark storage with fetched title/tags/description
  • browser bookmark import
  • browser opening from search results
  • Wayback Machine link lookup
  • text editor integration
  • custom colors
  • regex and substring search
  • portable mergeable database
  • bookmark export/import
  • manual encryption support

Details

Last Updated
Jul 26, 2026
Created
Nov 1, 2015
Install Methods
package-managersource
Requirements
Python 3.10+certifiurllib3cryptographybeautifulsoup4html5lib
API
REST
Backup & Export
native-exportfile-backup
Runtime / Stack
Pythondeb
Privacy & Independence
No TelemetryNo Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
Deployment

Deployment: Docker Compose ✓2 Containerslight hosting footprintRuns as 2 containers

Docker Compose

2 services · infra: nginx · 1 unclassified (bukuserver)

no resource limits declared

needs persistent storage (3 volumes)

docker-compose/docker-compose.yml · @ 21e7e9f · scanned Jun 7, 2026

services:
  bukuserver:
    image: bukuserver/bukuserver
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - BUKUSERVER_PER_PAGE=100
      - BUKUSERVER_OPEN_IN_NEW_TAB=true
      # - BUKUSERVER_SECRET_KEY=123456789012345678901234
      # - BUKUSERVER_URL_RENDER_MODE=full
      # - BUKUSERVER_DISABLE_FAVICON=false
    ports:
      - "5001:5001"
    volumes:
      - ./data:/root/.local/share/buku

  nginx:
    image: nginx:alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "80:80"
# ...

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