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Install pinboard-notes-backup with Homebrew, Nix
Efficiently back up the notes you've saved to Pinboard. Version 1.0.7.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-09-11. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#pinboard-notes-backup.
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overview
Package summary
Efficiently back up the notes you've saved to Pinboard
Project links
Commands and aliases
- pnbackup
history
Project history and usage
pinboard-notes-backup is a Haskell command-line utility, exposed as `pnbackup`, that incrementally mirrors a user's Pinboard notes into a local SQLite database.
Project history
Benjamin D. Esham created pinboard-notes-backup to export Pinboard notes into SQLite. The official copyright notice dates the project to 2016 and records continued work through 2025.
The program fetches the user's note list, downloads new or changed notes, removes locally backed-up records deleted from Pinboard, and never writes changes back to the service.
Adoption history
The official README documents Homebrew and Nix installation, matching the package mappings supplied in the input. Prebuilt binaries are also published for macOS and Linux.
How it is used
Obtain a Pinboard API token and run `pnbackup -t TOKEN OUTPUT.sqlite`. Subsequent executions incrementally reconcile the local database with Pinboard. The token is supplied as a command-line option; the official README does not document a credentials file. Initial synchronization can be slow because Pinboard requires a delay between API requests and exposes each note's text through a separate request.
Why package nerds care
The utility gives users a locally queryable, open SQLite copy of notes held by a hosted bookmarking service. Its incremental, one-way synchronization model is especially attractive to users who value data portability, inspectable formats, and repeatable personal backups.
Timeline
- 2016: The project's official copyright history begins.
- 2025: The official copyright notice records continued project work through this year.
Related projects
- Pinboard is the remote notes service and API used by the utility.
- SQLite is the local backup format.
- The project can be built with the Haskell Stack or Cabal toolchains.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: blue
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
Risk classifier
blue risk · medium confidence · tool
Why
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
Signals
- text:backup
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
- Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 2 build dependencies.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
pnbackup | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-09-19
manager version1.0.7.1
manager updated2026-09-11
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://github.com/bdesham/pinboard-notes-backup
- infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/bdesham/pinboard-notes-backupnone confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:pinboard-notes-backup |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.0.7.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/pinboard-notes-backup |
| Homepage | https://github.com/bdesham/pinboard-notes-backup |
| Repository | https://github.com/bdesham/pinboard-notes-backup |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Source archive | https://github.com/bdesham/pinboard-notes-backup/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.7.1.tar.gz |
| Last updated | 2026-09-11T13:01:29Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dependencies | gmp |
| Build dependencies | cabal-install, ghc |
| Uses from macOS | libffi |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | pinboard-notes-backup |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
pinboard-notes-backup
nix profile install nixpkgs#pinboard-notes-backup- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Pinboard Notes Backup
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation