pb is a shell client for the excellent pinboard.in bookmarking service
Features:
- Fast
- Uses HTTPS to make API calls to pinboard.in as you would expect
Caveats:
- A bit rough around the edges
Looks like:
Add
Delete
Search
List
With brew the following will suffice on OS X/MacOS. It should also work on linux etc -- substitute brew for your system's package manager.
Requires:
- cmake (broadly used and easily installed; see below)
- glib2 (ditto)
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0on ubuntu
- yajl (more detail below)
The below steps take care of these on OSX/MacOS
Note: if you are inside an anaconda environment run conda deactivate first or it will try to use the wrong compiler
Pre-requisites:
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# MacOS
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brew install glib
brew cask install cmake
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# Debian/Ubuntu
# note that could use one of the other libcurl-dev packages instead
# see e.g. https://askubuntu.com/questions/78183/installing-curl-h-library
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sudo apt install cmake libcurl4-openssl-dev
Build:
git clone 'https://github.com/bonsmots/pinboard-shell'
cd pinboard-shell
git clone 'https://github.com/lloyd/yajl'
cd yajl
./configure && make
cd ..
make
Use:
Note: it will look for $PB_USER and $PB_PASS environment variables and prompt for login details if not found. The secure approach here is to set $PB_USER with export PB_USER=pinboardusername or similar in your .bashrc or similar, and it will then prompt you to enter your password when authentication is required.
./pb -h
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pinboard-shell
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Usage:
ADD:
-t Title -u "https://url.com/"
DELETE:
-r "string"
SEARCH:
-s "string"
LIST:
-o flag to list data
-w do not output tags
-c toggle tags only
-p turn off formatting e.g. for redirecting stdout to a file
UPDATE:
-a auto update: updates if the API says it has updated since last downloaded
-f force update: forces update
OTHER:
-v toggle verbose
-d turn debug mode on
-h this help
Example usage:
Download bookmarks file from pinboard.in
./pb -f
OR
Output only
./pb -o
Further example usage:
List most frequent tags:
./pb -ocp | sort | awk '{ print $NF }' | uniq -c | sort -nr | less
List those tagged with $TAG for export to a file:
./pb -op | grep --color=never -B2 $TAG > $TAG.tagged