Crestify

Intelligent Bookmarking

About

Crestify is a self-hosted bookmarking service that does it all. There are a lot of bookmarking services out there today, and all of them do one thing or the other. With Crestify, you get the whole package.

Features

1 click bookmarking with extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera
An API so you can make your own extensions
Archiving to save bookmarks from link rot
Filtering bookmarks by titles, descriptions, urls, tags, or even the entire text of the page
Cleaning up articles to make them easier to read (à la Readability)
Public links you can share or cite so you don't end up linking to dead pages
Saving the open tabs from your browser for coming back to them later
Categorizing bookmarks via tags
Context filtering so you can get back into the flow of how you came across a particular page
Importing bookmarks from your current browser, or your Pocket, Instapaper, Readability & Pinboard accounts

And best of all, Crestify is fully open source, so you can host your own instance, modify Crestify to your heart's content, and generally do whatever you like with it!

Quick Start

To get started with Crestify, try out our Vagrant image!

$ git clone https://github.com/crestify/crestify.git && cd crestify
$ pip install fabric
$ fab vagrant_init

side note: In order to install Fabric, you might need to install the libffi-dev & libssl-dev packages on Ubuntu.

That's it! Open your browser, head to http://localhost:4545, create an account, and you'll be good to go!

To get the latest updates to Crestify, run:

fab update

And the latest updates from the master branch will be applied.

For manual install, see INSTALL.md.

Tech Stack

Crestify is a Flask-based application written in Python 2.

Languages: Python 2 & Javascript (Extensions)
Framework: Flask
Database: Crestify uses PostgreSQL as its database, and takes advantage of the full-text search capabilities of Postgres. Redis is used as a temp database for holding incoming tab saves
Message Queue: RabbitMQ is used as a message queue for asynchronously-run tasks related to bookmarking
Browser: Crestify uses PhantomJS to generate the DOM like a browser does for full-text extraction and readability view generation

License

Crestify is BSD licensed. See LICENSE for more details.