but the fast moving world of browser extensions made maintenance (for a non-commercial free software side project) too expensive, so the extension support became erratic, until it died completely. for a year or two i didn't use it.
but then asked asciimo if he could have a look a the extensions (since he was recently working on another extension, so had some experience), he looked at it, and rewrote the whole thing in go and fixed the extension. he even got support from nlnet/ngi0.
if you want to have your own self-hosted libre software bookmarking service for you and your community, give it a go, it's very simple, privacy respecting and most robust when it comes to snapshotting. asciimoo did a great job.
My links about bookmarks and links below.
https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive - django app, RSS client, simple web crawler, under construction
https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database - my bookmarks repository
https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2025 - RSS links for year 2025
https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2024 - RSS links for year 2024
https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2023 - RSS links for year 2023
https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database - I also maintain a list of domains found in the Internet
https://rumca-js.github.io/search - search that uses links maintained in zip files
https://rumca-js.github.io/music - my music library, browsable
https://rumca-js.github.io/bookmarks - my bookmarks, browsable
Awesome work!
But, I'll definitely check out Omnom too!
It's also free ;)
Demo for Showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehGolVAHm8U
App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/showcase-co/id6740991352?platf...
Omnivore was as close as I've ever gotten to this dream, even though their Android app wasn't great and certainly didn't have an "eInk pagination" option, but Readeck is at least giving me some hope again once Omni sold out.
Demo for Showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehGolVAHm8U
App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/showcase-co/id6740991352?platf...
That said, the snapshot search either isn't working, or isn't doing what I'd expect it to do. If I search for `fsf`, the snapshot search finds the FSF's website. But if I search for text that appears in the snapshot of the homepage (e.g. "sysop" or "sysops"), then I get no results.
I would expect the snapshot search to work roughly like Google, but for these limited snapshots of pages, but it appears to only search the URLs, maybe the page titles?
Pros: - stores data in your icloud - stores a copy where possible - full-text search
Cons: - not open-source - works on mac/ios only
To save logged in content, you can either pass it cookies.txt with the login cookies it needs, and it works pretty well. Alternatively, you can also use the SingleFile extension to snapshot what you want and upload it in place of the automated snapshot. This is also handy because the extension allows you to remove private data prior to screenshot, such as your name or username.
I personally have cookies in place for most common social media sites that need login (twitter, reddit), and if I need to snapshot something else occasionally, I do it manually and upload it to Linkding.
I haven't worked with go - where could I host that myself?
Could I do this with the free tier of https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/quickstarts/build-and-depl...
I often have windows of hundreds of tabs open that I'd like to archive and close but raindrop has been the only one that has been able to get rid of my clutter.
I'm missing the social aspect of bookmarks on del.icio.us though, so I'll check out Omnom and the other mentions in this thread of what people are using.
Closest thing would be to "print" to PDF but that always creates a trainwreck in the PDF and is never good enough for me. Looking forward to trying Omnom if it's open source.
also lets not forget that archive.ph wraps everything in their own frame and has their own way of mangling the result. not in a bad way, it's just not the original as it would have been rendered in your browser.
Second question: How easy is it to crawl the local store and apply LLMs or RAG?
If you want to take a look check this: https://cloudmark.site
Typically you are required to log in (pay or not) to remove them. I'm aware of archive.org and others, but it is not the main point :)
The point is, that if you are logged in, some private information about yourself may be stored in the snapshot. It is less dangerous when it is something on the screen -> you can make a decision. But if is is some hidden field with your ip address for example.
