Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages

Greetings everyone! Daniel here, I’ve been working on Linkwarden part-time over the past few months.

Linkwarden is a self-hosted, open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and archive webpages.

Key features:

  • 📸 Preserve webpages as Screenshot, PDF, etc. So you can access them even if they are taken down.
  • 👥 Collaborative, so you can share your collections with your friends and colleagues. You can also make them public and share them with the world.
  • 📱 Designed for every screen size, from widescreen monitors down to smartphones.
  • ⚡️ Open source and fully self-hostable!
  • ✨ And so many more features! (Literally, just didn’t want to make this post too long. Check out the https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden and https://linkwarden.app/ for more info…)

If you like what we’re doing, you can support the project by either starring ⭐️ the repo to make it more visible to others or by subscribing to the https://linkwarden.app/#pricing (which helps the project, a lot).

Things like mobile app (PWA) are already on the project roadmap and I’m so excited to share them with you in the future.

Feedback is always welcome, so feel free to share your thoughts!

Website: https://linkwarden.app

GitHub: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden

Cyberflunk,

Archivebox is in my obsidian workflow, it grabs every link in my vault and archives it. I didn’t see an API in linkwarden, perhaps I missed it.

eduardm,

Do you have any particular way of organizing the links themselves? I’ve moved to hosting all my bookmarks in Obsidian as well and am curious as to how others go about it

Cyberflunk,

I treat links like atomic notes. I add as much detail as I feel like to each link, sometimes I go back and add tags and notes. Then I have an exceptionally poor process that attempts to go back to each link, get the archivebox archive and uses python to attempt to grab the article text (I tried using newspaper3k at first, but it’s unmaintained, so moved to readability). Then sticks the resulting link text into the note.

Honestly It’s a mess, and I really haven’t figured out how to do link things together very well, but, for now, it’s my little disaster of a solution.

Lem453,

Thank you for including oAuth options for sign on. Makes a big difference being able to use the same account for all the things like freshRSS, seafile, immich etc.

Kir,

I’m intrigued. How does it work? Do you have a link or an article to point me to?

Lem453, (edited )

The general principle is called single sign on (sso).

The idea is that instead of each all keeping track of users itself, there is another app (sometimes called an identity provider) that does this. Then when you try to log into an app, it takes to the to login of your identity provider instead. When the IP says you are the correct user, it sends a token to the app saying to let you access your account.

The huge benefits are if you are already logged into the IP on a browser for example, the other apps will login automatically without having to put in your password again.

Also for me the biggest benefit is not having to manage passwords for a large number of apps so family that uses my server have 1 account which gives them access to jellyfin, seafile, immich, freshrss etc. If they change that password it changes it for everything. You can enforce minimum password requirements. You can also add 2FA to any app now immediately.

I use Authentik as my identity provider: goauthentik.io/https://goauthentik.io/

There’s good guides to settings it up with traefik so that you get let encrypt certificates and can use traefik for proxy authentication on web based apps like sonarr. There are many different authentication methods an app can choose to use and Authentik essentially supports everything.

youtu.be/CPURnYaW3Zk

SSO should really be the standard for self hosted apps because this way they don’t have to worry about ensuring they have the latest security for user management etc. The app just allows a dedicated identity provider to worry about user management security so the app devs can focus on just the app.

Kir,

Thank you for the detailed answer! It seems really interesting and I will definitely give a try on my server!

dan,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Authentik is pretty good. Authelia is good too, and lighter weight.

You can combine Authelia with LLDAP to get a web UI for user management and LDAP for apps that don’t support OpenID Connect (like Home Assistant).

Lem453,

If you have to add a whole other app the match what authentik can do, is authelia really lighter weight?

Im joking because authentik does takes a decent chunk of ram but having all protocols together is nice. You can actually make ldap authentication 2FA if you want.

dan,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Interesting… How does Authentik do 2FA for LDAP?

I’m going to try it out and see how it compares to Authelia. My home server has 64GB RAM and I have VPSes with 16GB and 48GB RAM so RAM isn’t much of an issue :D

Lem453,

Because authentik uses flows, you can insert the 2FA part into any login flow (proxy, oauth, ldap etc)

youtu.be/whSBD8YbVlc

dan, (edited )
@dan@upvote.au avatar

LDAP sends username and password over the network though… It doesn’t use regular web-based authentication. How would it add 2FA to that?

Lem453,

The above YouTube video shows that you can get authentik to send a 2fa push authentication that requires the phone to hit a button in order to complete the authentication flow.

dan,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Ohhhh, interesting. Sorry, I didn’t watch the video yet. Thank you!!

subtext,

Although in the subscription version, SSO is not available unless you purchase the “Contact Us” version. sso.tax would like a word.

Lem453,

Free for self hosted which is probably what matters to most here

subtext,

Definitely a fair point, always good to see that in a project

TCB13,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

My question is: what’s wrong with browser bookmarks and something SIMPLE to sync them between like devices like floccus (+ webdav server)?

Potatos_are_not_friends, (edited )

Content changes or disappear.

For fun, I booted up a old 2005 laptop with windows xp on it. The bookmarks were all dead. And most weren’t archived in any way.

There’s were many browser games I used to play that is completely lost in time.

TCB13,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

How would browser games survive with that solution tho? They most likely require some server…

huangrydude,

Games from that time were actually running mostly in your browser. Meaning that the host, for example Miniclip served you the JavaScript and other files of the game which were then executed locally. So technically you could archive those games as long as you can load them up at least once initially.

TCB13,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

Potentially yes, but for instance I’ve been looking for a way to have the following players offline and it seems harder than expected:

Any tips?

centof,

If you logged and saved all the files the first one requested you could potentially make it work. You could manually change of the file paths in the html if you only doing a few of them. There’s only like 10 or so paths that would need to be modified. The PHP ones are likely harder to make work as php is a server side language and you don’t likely have easy access to PHP server and everything that goes with it.

Anyway thanks for the link to to mynoise.net. It looks like a well designed, carefully crafted website.

TCB13,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

Yes yes, but what about magic / automated solutions? Wasn’t that the great advantage of Linkwarden?

centof,

It’s an open source solution designed to scale to what the web was originally designed for and excels at. Documents. Specifically hyperlinked documents or webpages. You can’t reasonably expect an archival service to archive something that is by definition not static like an interactive web app.

lud,

Most browser games are quite simple and aren’t running on a remote server.

TCB13,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

Oh you mean the ones here: flashpointarchive.org and www.flashgamearchive.com

lud,

Yeah, flashpoint is great.

iarigby,

no image/text previews, only small part of the title visible, no sharing, no automatic archiving

iarigby,

Amazing! Have wanted something like this for years, currently use raindrop but not fully, very hesitant of locking myself in. This looks very promising.

MashedTech,

I’m very curious… Why do you feel locked in by raindrop? I like that it can regularly upload exports to my Google drive and I can Always download them as html and csv.

iarigby,

That sounds great, I didn’t look into it enough to know that

princessnorah,
@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Is there the potential for SingleFile html archives rather than pdf & screenshots? I’d imagine it’d be a fair bit smaller file.

cmhe,

Or other standard archiving formats like WARC.

There also is github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox which looks a bit similar.

MashedTech,

Cool stuff, but I don’t see a reason to ditch raindrop.io

dan,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Raindrop doesn’t seem to be self-hosted? This is the selfhosted community…

MashedTech,

My bad.

RobotToaster,

How does making collections public work if you’re self hosting?

daniel31x13,

Like this: cloud.linkwarden.app/public/collections/118

EmperorHenry,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

xbrowsersync already exists. Mozilla’s thing already exists too.

Carol2852,
@Carol2852@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Can’t find the info in the repository. Can I share a collection or specific links via RSS? I built my own application to archive URLs and grab the text content, and I also build a RSS feed from that. Can Linkwarden do something similar?

haui_lemmy,

Thats neat. I was searching for something like this. Goes on my list.

sebsch,

I would love sth like this with nextcloud integration.

Dehydrated,

This looks like a good replacement for Raindrop.io

Supercharger,

Thanks for your work. I look forward to installing this soon!

Do you have any plans to support importing from similar services such as Raindrop, Omnivore, or Shiori?

sanqueue,

Is it possible for you to make it mobile friendly? How does it compare with raindrop?

dan, (edited )
@dan@upvote.au avatar

So is this like a self-hosted equivalent to pinboard.in? Can I import all my existing Pinboard bookmarks including their tags?

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