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Re: Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots

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Post by dewey »

5evOX5hTZ9mYa9E wrote: post #30
dewey wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ArchiveBox also supports SingleFile from what I remember, but I wish there was a extension to just pass everything (Browser context) to ArchiveBox. Having to keep cookies in sync with a second service is a bit of a hassle.

If you read the Linkding archiving page, you can see that it is possible to set up SingleFile extension to auto-snapshot the page when the page is added, from the browser you're using at that moment. The advantage is that loing is handled implicitly, but a disadvantage is that this only works in the browser, and not for example when you use the Android app. But for me that's fine, Also, it is possible to configure Si…

That sounds like that does the job, thanks! I’ll try to set this up.

Re: Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots

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Post by kapnobatairza »

dewey wrote: post #10

I wish ArchiveBox had such a feature where you can archive “private” and logged in pages. I often had the case where I then realized I only archived some login page.

You can pass cookies or Chrome user data into ArchiveBox, but you do risk account suspensions if your account gets flagged for scraping.

Re: Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots

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Post by pratio »

mstef wrote: post #12
pratio wrote: post #9

I have settled on https://readeck.org/ it's absolutely brilliant. It supports postgres and a service with systemd. omnom looks promising, will keep an eye on it.

looks nifty, but does it do snapshotting?

It also does highlighting which is absolutely amazing. No need to save an entire page just for a piece of text. Also, you can have opds for ebooks.

Re: Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots

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Post by vindex10 »

I have a thought on "sharing" the snapshots. Many pages nowadays are behind a paywall.

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.

Re: Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots

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Post by renegat0x0 »

I love bookmarks. I have made RSS app with bookmarking mechanism.

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

Re: Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots

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Post by quantadev »

asciimoo wrote: post #22
quantadev wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. Saving web-links is a solved problem. Saving the CONTENT afaik is not solved and I've wanted a solution for YEARS, as well as the rest of humanity has needed this (including those who don't even know they need it, haha!). 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.

It's not only open source, it is free software. Take a look at https://github.com/asciimoo/omnom - suggestions/contributions are appreciated =)

That looks like a pretty heavy-weight solution, with a lot of complexity, and I don't mean that as a criticism at all. I'm not a 'go' developer myself. I've always wanted a pure JS solution (as a browser extension, maximum of 200 lines of code) that can capture the content of a web page (doing a virtual scroll to the bottom, to capture the whole page). Since there's no perfect way to translate HTML to PDF, my idea had always been to capture the IMAGE of the page (aside from capturing keywords for DB indexing which can be done separately just for 'search' support later on).

The fly in the ointment is of course the scrolling too, because some apps have "infinite" scrolling, and so in many SPAs there's literally no such thing as "The whole page". Anway, I haven't tried your app yet, because of not-JS and not-Small, reasons, but I'm just sharing my perspective on this topic. Thanks for sharing your project!

Re: Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots

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Post by smeej »

pratio wrote: post #9

I have settled on https://readeck.org/ it's absolutely brilliant. It supports postgres and a service with systemd. omnom looks promising, will keep an eye on it.

My dream tool allows me to create snapshots from either mobile or desktop browser, then read and highlight on my Android eInk reader or phone, then export my highlights and notes into Logseq...all without collecting all my data and selling it to advertisers (which basically leaves me with FOSS tools).

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.

Re: Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots

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Post by crossroadsguy »

After quite some exploring around and struggles I made my peace with https://raindrop.io. Am I happy with that? Of course not. But that's the only hosted one which has extensions and apps for almost every browser and OS I use. I wish there a functional open source service (hosted) with wide range of platforms support that I could pay for and use.

Re: Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots

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Post by marcod »

> if you want to have your own self-hosted libre software bookmarking service for you and your community, give it a go

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...

Re: Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots

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Post by Onawa »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #38

After quite some exploring around and struggles I made my peace with https://raindrop.io . Am I happy with that? Of course not. But that's the only hosted one which has extensions and apps for almost every browser and OS I use. I wish there a functional open source service (hosted) with wide range of platforms support that I could pay for and use.

I agree, I made my peace with Raindrop.io as well. Being able to use it on any system and most any browser, plus a full API for interacting with my bookmarks. Nothing free and open source compared and now I have 6k+ bookmarks in Raindrop that I would like to move elsewhere, but I'll have to check out the project linked here.
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