# Shaarli The personal, minimalist, super fast, database-free, bookmarking service. Do you want to share the links you discover? Shaarli is a minimalist bookmark manager and link sharing service that you can install on your own server. It is designed to be personal (single-user), fast and handy. Visit the pages in the sidebar to find information on how to setup, use, configure, tweak and troubleshoot Shaarli. * [GitHub project page](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli) * [Documentation](https://shaarli.readthedocs.io/) * [Changelog](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) [![](https://i.imgur.com/8wEBRSG.png)](https://i.imgur.com/WWPfSj0.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/93PpLLs.png)](https://i.imgur.com/V09kAQt.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/rrsjWYy.png)](https://i.imgur.com/TZzGHMs.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/8iRzHfe.png)](https://i.imgur.com/sfJJ6NT.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/GjZGvIh.png)](https://i.imgur.com/QsedIuJ.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/TFZ9PEq.png)](https://i.imgur.com/KdtF8Ll.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/uICDOle.png)](https://i.imgur.com/27wYsbC.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/tVvD3gH.png)](https://i.imgur.com/zGF4d6L.jpg) ## Demo You can use this [public demo instance of Shaarli](https://demo.shaarli.org). It runs the latest development version of Shaarli and is updated/reset daily. Login: `demo`; Password: `demo` ## Getting started - [Configure your server](Server-configuration.md) - [Install Shaarli](Installation.md) - Or install Shaarli using [Docker](Docker.md) ## Features Shaarli can be used: - to share, comment and save interesting links - to bookmark useful/frequent links and share them between computers - as a minimal blog/microblog/writing platform - as a read-it-later/todo list - as a notepad to draft and save articles/posts/ideas - as a knowledge base to keep notes, documentation and code snippets - as a shared clipboard/notepad/pastebin between computers - as playlist manager for online media - to feed other blogs, aggregators, social networks... ### Edit, view and search your links - Editable URL, title, description, tags, private/public status for all your [Shaares](Usage.md) - [Tags](Usage.md#tags) to organize your Shaares - [Search](Usage.md#search) in all fields - Unique [permalinks](Usage.md#permalinks) for easy reference - Paginated Shaares list view (with image and video thumbnails) - [Tag cloud/list](Usage.md#tag-cloud) views - [Picture wall](Usage.md#picture-wall)/thumbnails view (with lazy loading) - [ATOM and RSS feeds](Usage.md#rss-feeds) (can also be filtered using tags or text search) - [Daily](Usage.md#daily): newspaper-like daily digest (and daily RSS feed) - URL cleanup: automatic removal of `?utm_source=...`, `fb=...` tracking parameters - Extensible through [plugins](Plugins.md) - Easily extensible by any client using the [REST API](REST-API.md) exposed by Shaarli - Bookmarklet and [other tools](Community-and-related-software.md) to share links in one click - Responsive/support for mobile browsers, degrades gracefully with Javascript disabled - LDAP (single-user) login support ### Easy setup - Dead-simple [installation](Installation.md): drop the files on your server, open the page - Shaares are stored in a file (no database required, easy [backup](Backup-and-restore.md)) - [Configurable](Shaarli-configuration.md) from dialog and configuration file - Extensible through third-party [plugins and themes](Community-and-related-software.md) ### Fast - Fast! Small datastore file, write-once/read-many, served most of the time from OS disk caches (no disk I/O) - Stays fast with even tens of thousands shaares! ### Self-hosted - Shaarli is an alternative to commercial services such as StumbleUpon, Delicio.us, Diigo... - The data is yours, [import and export](Usage.md#import-export) it to HTML bookmarksformat compatible with most web browser, and from a variety of formats - Shaarli does not send any telemetry/metrics/private information to developers - Shaarli is Free and Open-Source software, inspect and change how the program works in the [source code](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli) - Built-in [Security](dev/Development.md#security) features to help you protect your Shaarli instance ## About This [community fork](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli) of the original [Shaarli](https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli/) project by [Sébastien Sauvage](http://sebsauvage.net/) (now [unmaintained](https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli/issues/191)) has carried on the work to provide [many patches](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/compare/sebsauvage:master...master) for [bug fixes and enhancements](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+) in this repository, and will keep maintaining the project for the foreseeable future, while keeping Shaarli simple and efficient. The original Shaarli instance is still available [here](https://sebsauvage.net/links/) (+25000 shaares!) ### Contributing and getting help Feedback is very appreciated! Feel free to propose solutions to existing problems, help us improve the documentation and translations, and submit pull requests :-) See [Support](Troubleshooting.md#support) to get in touch with the Shaarli community. ### License Shaarli is [Free Software](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software). See [COPYING](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/blob/master/COPYING) for a detail of the contributors and licenses for each individual component. A list of contributors is available [here](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/blob/master/AUTHORS).