Bogrep Release v0.1.3: Grep your bookmarks (decently fast)

Published on 2023-09-01.

As a bookmark hoarder, I often need to search through my bookmarks. Usually, I will find what I'm searching for just by using the browser search. Sometimes, I need full-text search on the website's content though to find some specific bookmark I added a while ago.

I'm already using

• ripgrep for full-text search in all my markdown files
• ripgrep-all for full-text search in LibreOffice documents and PDFs

Now you can also use bogrep to grep through your bookmarks in full-text search.

Supported browsers are Firefox and Chrome. You can configure bogrep to import some specific bookmark --folders from your browser:

# Configure bogrep to use bookmarks from Firefox for my_profile:
bogrep config \
    --source ~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/firefox/<my_profile>/bookmarkbackups \
    --folders dev,science,articles

# Import bookmarks
bogrep import

# Fetch and cache bookmarks
bogrep fetch

# Finally, grep through your bookmarks
bogrep <pattern>

Fetching of bookmarks is conservatively throttled for bookmarks from the same host. So that using bogrep shouldn't lead to any kind of rate limiting. You can configure the request_throttling yourself in the created settings.json file, placed at ~/.config/bogrep in your home directory.

Check out the repo for more information: https://github.com/quambene/bogrep.