ymarks

A self-hosted solution to keep your browser's bookmarks synchronized without limiting yourself to one provider.

Features

• Multi-browser support: If your browser speaks WebExtensions, you're in!
• KISS: Download the latest database or upload your current bookmarks. No "incremental" blah blah with extensive calculations etc.
• Open Source: Trust nobody (including me)!
• Backups: ymarks will clone your latest two databases in case you fucked it up.

Requirements

Server

You'll need a decent C compiler, CMake and Conan in your $PATH - the latter will take care of your dependencies. Then:

% mkdir build ; cd build
% cmake ..

Preprocessor definitions

• Define SILENT if you want the server to shut the fuck up while running, otherwise ymarks will log incoming requests to stdout.
• Define NO_BACKUP if you do not want ymarks to automatically create backup files.
• Windows-only:
  • Define KEEP_VISIBLE if you do not want to hide the server window after the start. (By default, it'll disappear after a successful start.)

Client

Just grab the extension for your preferred WebExtension-capable browser from ymarks.org.

Usage

Set up the server

1. Run the executable. It will run on port 8888 by default. If you'd prefer to use a different port, please change the SERVERPORT integer in constants.h, recompile and try it again.
2. (Optional) Place a file named PIN.txt in the same folder as the compiled binary is in order to change your PIN from "12345" to something else. It will have to be a number though.

Set up the browser extension(s)

Right now, we support Firefox and Chrome (less so, Vivaldi). Grab the extension as usual. :-)

TODO

• Support synchronization of bookmark tags. There does not seem to be a WebExtensions API for that yet.

Licenses

The server part of ymarks uses a number of third-party libraries, licensed under the terms of the BSD resp. MIT licenses. Everything else in this repository is original work, licensed under the terms of the CDDL license. Please refer to the COPYING file for details.