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

• make
• docker + docker compose

Tested on Ubuntu 21.04 and macOS Big Sur.

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).

• 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.

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.

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

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).