Shaarli is a minimalist link sharing service that you can install on your own server. It is designed to be personal (single-user), fast and handy.
Shaarli can be used to:
- share, comment and save interesting links.
- bookmark useful/frequent links and share them between computers.
- minimal blog/microblog/writing platform.
- read-it-later/todo list.
- notepad to draft and save articles/posts/ideas.
- knowledge base to keep notes, documentation and code snippets.
- shared clipboard/notepad/pastebin between computers.
- playlist manager for online media.
- feed other blogs, aggregators, social networks…
Key Features
- Edit, view and search links:
- Editable URL, title, description, tags, private/public status for all your Shaares.
- Tags to organize your Shaares.
- Search in all fields.
- Unique permalinks for easy reference.
- Paginated Shaares list view (with image and video thumbnails).
- Tag cloud/list views.
- Picture wall/thumbnails view (with lazy loading).
- ATOM and RSS feeds (can also be filtered using tags or text search).
- Daily: newspaper-like daily digest (and daily RSS feed).
- URL cleanup: automatic removal of ?utm_source=…, fb=… tracking parameters.
- Extensible through plugins.
- Easily extensible by any client using the REST API exposed by Shaarli.
- Bookmarklet and other tools to share links in one click.
- Responsive/support for mobile browsers, degrades gracefully with JavaScript disabled.
- LDAP (single-user) login support.
- Easy setup.
- Fast.
- Self-hosted solution.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/shaarli/shaarli
Support:
Developer: The Shaarli Community
License: zlib/libpng
Shaarli is written in PHP. Learn PHP with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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