RBMenu

Rust Bookmark (d)Menu is a dmenu/ncurses based interface to manage bookmarks independently of your web browser. It also supports file/folder bookmarks

Features

Insert Bookmark
List Bookmark(s) [With coloured output]

FAQ

Location of Bookmark file ? The Bookmark file for rbmenu is stored in ~/.local/share/rbmenu/

File format of the file ? The Bookmark file is stored in json format.

More features ? Yes, more features are on the way. Some planned ones are, copy to clipboard, modify bookmarks and so on.

Installation

rbmenu is available on crates.io

Arch Linux : Available on AUR, rbmenu for manual compilation from release and rbmenu-bin for precompiled binary

Manual Installation

Install the rust toolchain. cargo should be on the $PATH
Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/DevHyperCoder/rbmenu.git. Change directory (cd) into the rbmenu folder
Build the code: cargo build --release
Copy the binary to a location on $PATH. Binary is in ./target/release/rbmenu
For operation with cargo, cargo run -- <options>.

CLI - Options

Option / Flags	Description
`-h` `--help`	Prints help information
`-i`	Insert a new bookmark
`-l`	List all bookmarks
`-n` `--name`	Name of the bookmark
`-V` `--version`	Prints version information

Examples

Insert a new bookmark

rbmenu reads from stdin, therefore, you are able to pipe text into it. -n is the name of the bookmark. (Not required as if not provided, the domain name is used)

echo "https://discord.com/app" | rbmenu -in "Discord"

Scripts working with dmenu or rofi would be published soon.

List bookmarks

Without the name option, rbmenu -l displays all the available bookmarks. Give a regex string to the -n flag to filter out the bookmarks

rbmenu -ln "git*"

License

RBMenu is licensed under the GPL-3 license.