{"id":2436,"date":"2024-12-03T21:03:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T01:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2024-12-03T21:03:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T01:03:34","slug":"hoarder-a-self-hosted-link-collection-and-web-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2024\/hoarder-a-self-hosted-link-collection-and-web-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoarder – a self hosted link collection and web archive"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found out about Hoarder<\/a> via the self-hosted podcast<\/a>. While I don’t always agree with the opinions of the hosts, they’ve helped me discover useful things a few times. I’d certainly recommend checking the podcast out.<\/p>\n

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The Bookmark Everything<\/span> App<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Quickly save links, notes, and images and hoarder will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Built for the data hoarders out there!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The install<\/a> is docker friendly and based on compose. It’s a very simple 3 steps to get a test instance setup.<\/p>\n

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  1. Download the compose yaml.<\/li>\n
  2. Create a\u00a0.env<\/code><\/span>\u00a0file with a few values<\/li>\n
  3. Then\u00a0docker compose up<\/code><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Seems like it supports “sign up” – if you host this visibly externally you may have some spammy sign-ups.. this may be something you can disable.. (yes, you can disable this as I find out below)<\/p>\n

    After you have created a user – you are greeted with this blank canvas<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a>I currently run Wallabag<\/a> – which I landed on after trying a few other choices. It was the best choice for my needs at the time, but also super basic. Wallabag has a mobile app which I find useful – as it makes sharing links I find on mobile easy to my Wallbag install.<\/p>\n

    Wallabag often struggles to capture a page – but it at least keeps the link. One example is this website<\/a> – which has some sort of scraper blocker. You get a page that indicates it is protected by this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Ok – so how does Hoarder do with a link https:\/\/www.thekitchn.com\/instant-pot-bo-kho-recipe-23242169<\/code>?<\/p>\n

    For comparison – this is what wallabag got..<\/p>\n

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    The capture in Hoarder take a bit of time – not long, but it renders sort of a blank-ish card immediately and then the image fills in.<\/p>\n

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    \nLet’s take a closer look at the tile that it created for me<\/p>\n

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    The top of the tile is a picture and link to the original URL (1). The link (1) is also the same destination.
    \nThe date (2) and expansion arrows (2) both take you to a larger locally hosted view.
    \n(3) is a menu of options<\/p>\n

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    Let’s dive deeper into the expanded (locally hosted view)<\/p>\n

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    The overall capture\/rendering of the page from the local version is pretty good. Links in the text haven’t been re-written, but that’s both expected and generally useful.<\/p>\n

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    This view also offers the option to view a screenshot – which is as you expect.<\/p>\n

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    Since I didn’t provide an OpenAI key nor did I configure Ollama the fancy “Summarize with AI” button just gives me an error.<\/p>\n

    Looking – it seems this setup 3 unique containers<\/p>\n