Bookmarks with Nextcloud

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Nextcloud can handle all your bookmarks...this is REALLY handy if you use multiple devices, Terminal Servers and such.

You can learn all about the built-in and third-party apps here: https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/bookmarks

iOS or Android devices

Since the usual floccus-Plugins won't work on mobile device browsers[1] there are special apps to manage your bookmarks. This works just fine, but is a bit "unhandy". And using the Nextcloud-Web-App is just also not cool (due to login, 2FA and the overengineered app).

However, you can export your bookmarks on a daily basis to HTML and use it otherwise...

HowTo

ℹ️ The basic idea is to make backups from Nextcloud-bookmarks and make them (not so much) protected available on the website, so you can access it from every browser as long as you remember your credentials.
🚧 You can't just copy these bits and it will work. But for anyone with decent Linux skills, this is fairly simple. Just adjust paths and off you go!
  • Make sure, your bookmarks are backupped:
    Nc bookmarks settings backup.png
  • Create a .htpasswd in your public path
deep-thought bookmarks # cat .htaccess 
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Wurst-Wasser.net Bookmarks"
AuthUserFile /var/www/_htaccess/bookmarksUsers
Require valid-user
deep-thought bookmarks #
  • Set a password:
deep-thought _htaccess # htpasswd bookmarksUsers heiko
New password: 
Re-type new password: 
Adding password for user heiko
deep-thought _htaccess #
  • Run this script nightly:
#!/bin/bash
#set -x

# Documentation: https://www.wurst-wasser.net//wiki/index.php/Bookmarks_with_Nextcloud

# Globals
GFOLDERTARGET="/var/www/html/bookmarks"
GFILETARGET="${GFOLDERTARGET}/index.html"
GFOLDERSOURCE="/home/nextcloud-data/heiko/files/Bookmarks Backups"

# Functions

# Main
GFILEBOOKMARKS="`find "${GFOLDERSOURCE}" -type f | sort | tail -1`"

echo "Newest bookmarks file: \"${GFILEBOOKMARKS}\"."

echo "Publishing bookmarks file: \"${GFILEBOOKMARKS}\" to \"${GFILETARGET}\""
cp "${GFILEBOOKMARKS}" "${GFILETARGET}"




#EOF
  • Might want to use a cronjob like this:
# Publish bookmarks
0 7 * * *   /root/bin/publishBookmarks.sh >> /dev/null 2>&1

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  1. ↑ https://floccus.org/download
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