Espial

Espial is an open-source, web-based bookmarking server.

It allows mutiple accounts, but currently intended for self-host scenarios.

The bookmarks are stored in a sqlite3 database, for ease of deployment & maintenence.

The easist way for logged-in users to add bookmarks, is with the "bookmarklet", found on the Settings page.

Also, see the android app for adding bookmarks via an Android Share intent https://github.com/jonschoning/espial-share-android

demo server

log in — username: demo password: demo

https://esp.ae8.org/u:demo

Docker Setup

see https://github.com/jonschoning/espial-docker

Server Setup (from source)

1. Install the Stack executable here:

   • https://tech.fpcomplete.com/haskell/get-started

2. Build executables

   stack build
   

3. Create the database

   stack exec migration -- createdb --conn espial.sqlite3
   

4. Create a user

   stack exec migration -- createuser --conn espial.sqlite3 --userName myusername --userPassword myuserpassword
   

5. Import a pinboard bookmark file for a user (optional)

   stack exec migration -- importbookmarks --conn espial.sqlite3 --userName myusername --bookmarkFile sample-bookmarks.json
   

6. Import a firefox bookmark file for a user (optional)

   stack exec migration -- importfirefoxbookmarks --conn espial.sqlite3 --userName myusername --bookmarkFile firefox-bookmarks.json
   

7. Start a production server:

   stack exec espial
   

Configuration

See config/settings.yml for changing default run-time parameters & environment variables.

• config/settings.yml is embedded into the app executable when compiled, so after changing config/settings.yml, run stack build again to apply the new settings.
• config/settings.yml values formatted like _env:ENV_VAR_NAME:default_value can be overridden by the specified environment variable.
• Example
  • _env:PORT:3000
    • environment variable PORT
    • default app http port: 3000

SSL: use reverse proxy

Development

Backend

• Install the yesod command line tool: stack install yesod-bin --install-ghc

• Start a development server:

  yesod devel
  

Frontend

• See purs/ folder

Import Bookmark file format (pinboard compatible format)

see sample-bookmarks.json, which contains a JSON array, each line containing a FileBookmark object.

example:

[ {"href":"http://raganwald.com/2018/02/23/forde.html","description":"Forde's Tenth Rule, or, \"How I Learned to Stop Worrying and \u2764\ufe0f the State Machine\"","extended":"","time":"2018-02-26T22:57:20Z","shared":"yes","toread":"yes","tags":"raganwald"},
, {"href":"http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_guide/flags.html","description":"7.6. Flag reference \u2014 Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.2.2 User's Guide","extended":"-fprint-expanded-synonyms","time":"2018-02-26T21:52:02Z","shared":"yes","toread":"no","tags":"ghc haskell"},
]