Good morning, afternoon, or evening;
I am looking for a self hosted solution for Bookmark backup and synchronization. I just spun up a docker container for Linkding; don’t get me wrong this is awesome, but it is missing some things I would like to see in a bookmark backup solution.
A few key things I am looking for:
- Browser agnostic (at least firefox and chromium based browsers)
- Automatic backup/synchronization
- Integration with the browser’s built in bookmarks
Anyone have any suggestions?
I am looking to self host, and not looking for something like Xbrowsersync or Firefox Account syncing.
I am open to suggestions!
Thank you!
Floccus is a great option with different sync sources and works across browsers
Yes, this is the best option if you are running a Nextcloud anyways. Although I have also been running it nicely with the more lightweight https://github.com/kd2org/karadav but then you don’t have the Nextcloud app to manage your bookmarks more easily.
To sync with Floccus you don’t need that webserver, that thing is very customized to deal with Nextcloud bullshit.
A simple nginx setup with this will get the job done:
root /mnt/SSD1/web/root; location /dav/bookmarks { alias /mnt/SSD1/web/dav/bookmarks; auth_basic realm_name; auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/.credentials-dav.list; dav_methods PUT DELETE MKCOL COPY MOVE; dav_ext_methods PROPFIND OPTIONS; dav_access user:rw; client_max_body_size 0; create_full_put_path on; }
The file
/etc/nginx/.credentials-dav.list
stores authentication data. You can create users with the following command:htpasswd -c /etc/nginx/.credentials-dav.list yourusername
Then point Floccus at your server: http://10.0.0.1/dav/bookmarks
Enjoy.
not looking for something like Xbrowsersync or Firefox Account syncing.
Firefox account can be self hosted, though!
Wasn’t the project abandoned some years ago?
Edit: nvm, looks like it was rewritten into https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs
If you use Docker, somebody has been taking the effort of wrapping the new Rust-based self-hosted sync server into a Docker recipe: https://github.com/jeena/fxsync-docker
I’m curious why you’re not interested in xBrowsersync, if you’re willing to share. It does everything you’re looking for.
Have you looked at Shaarli?
not OP but it’s painfully slow when you have a large collection of bookmarks.
Well, I want the data to be my own. And that traffic won’t leave my home network, unless I am VPNed into my network. I don’t expose my services to the Internet because it’s just for me.
I have not. He ked out Shaarli but I am going to look now.
FYI, I host my own xbs server. It’s pretty easy on its own, but I use the d.rymcg.tech framework.
Didn’t realize there was a self host option for Xbrowsersync, thank you!