b - Bookmark manager

b is a minimalistic bookmark manager for your own server. Written in PHP. Bookmarks are stored in a sqlite database. Features:

• filtering
• tagging
• automatic fetching of page title
• infinite scrolling (optional)
• bookmarklet
• multiple users

Requirements

• make
• docker + docker compose

Tested on Ubuntu 21.04 and macOS Big Sur.

Setup

This web app uses HTTP basic auth password protection. Create a htusers file and specify username/password like this:

mkdir db
./htpasswd -c db/htusers peter

The bookmark manager can host multiple databases. To initialize a new database, simply create a subdirectory:

mkdir db/peter

This will make bookmarks accessible via http://localhost:9090/peter.

Use make to start the webserver container and make down to stop it.

To prevent forking the container into the background, use make up instead of make (useful for debugging).

How to use

• To add a new bookmark, simply paste it into the input field and press return. the url may be followed by hash tags, e.g. http://example.com #example #bla #wurst
• The website's title is automatically fetched and the bookmark is added to the database.
• Edit title by double clicking it. This opens a prompt-dialog where you can edit the title. Enter '-' (minus sign) to remove an entry.
• To edit the URL, double click beside the link.
• The input field can also be used to filter bookmarks. Filtering is done with a full-text search on all titles. Search terms are separated by spaces and joined with AND.

Infinite scrolling

If you have a massive amount of bookmarks and you don't want to load them all at once, you can activate infinite scrolling. This will load a limited amount of bookmarks initially and load more when you scroll to the bottom of the page. Activate infinite scrolling by adding INFINITE_SCROLLING=200 to .env. Replace 200 with the number of bookmarks you want to load each time you hit the bottom.

Bookmarklet

Visit /[user]/bookmarklet to access the user's bookmarklet, e.g. http://bookmarks.example.com/peter/bookmarklet. (Thanks to nibreh for the suggestion!)

Credits

Copyright (c) 2011-2021 Sebastian Volland http://github.com/sebcode

The source code is licensed under the terms of the MIT license (see LICENSE file).