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1# <img src="images/icon.png" width="20px" height="20px"> Shaarli
2
3The personal, minimalist, super-fast, database free, bookmarking service.
4
5Do you want to share the links you discover? Shaarli is a minimalist bookmark manager and link sharing service that you can install on your own server. It is designed to be personal (single-user), fast and handy.
6
7Visit the pages in the sidebar to find information on how to setup, use, configure, tweak and troubleshoot Shaarli.
8
9* [GitHub project page](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli)
10* [Documentation](https://shaarli.readthedocs.io/)
11* [Changelog](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)
12
13
14[![](https://i.imgur.com/8wEBRSG.png)](https://i.imgur.com/WWPfSj0.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/93PpLLs.png)](https://i.imgur.com/V09kAQt.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/rrsjWYy.png)](https://i.imgur.com/TZzGHMs.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/8iRzHfe.png)](https://i.imgur.com/sfJJ6NT.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/GjZGvIh.png)](https://i.imgur.com/QsedIuJ.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/TFZ9PEq.png)](https://i.imgur.com/KdtF8Ll.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/uICDOle.png)](https://i.imgur.com/27wYsbC.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/tVvD3gH.png)](https://i.imgur.com/zGF4d6L.jpg)
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16
17
18## Demo
19
20You can use this [public demo instance of Shaarli](https://demo.shaarli.org).
21It runs the latest development version of Shaarli and is updated/reset daily.
22
23Login: `demo`; Password: `demo`
24
25
26## Getting started
27
28- [Configure your server](Server-configuration.md)
29- [Install Shaarli](Installation.md)
30- Or install Shaarli using [Docker](Docker.md)
31
32
33## Features
34
35Shaarli can be used:
36
37- to share, comment and save interesting links
38- to bookmark useful/frequent links and share them between computers
39- as a minimal blog/microblog/writing platform
40- as a read-it-later/todo list
41- as a notepad to draft and save articles/posts/ideas
42- as a knowledge base to keep notes, documentation and code snippets
43- as a shared clipboard/notepad/pastebin between computers
44- as playlist manager for online media
45- to feed other blogs, aggregators, social networks...
46
47### Edit, view and search your links
48
49- Editable URL, title, description, tags, private/public status for all your [Shaares](Usage.md)
50- [Tags](Usage.md#tags) to organize your Shaares
51- [Search](Usage.md#search) in all fields
52- Unique [permalinks](Usage.md#permalinks) for easy reference
53- Paginated Shaares list view (with image and video thumbnails)
54- [Tag cloud/list](Usage#tag-cloud) views
55- [Picture wall](Usage#picture-wall)/thumbnails view (with lazy loading)
56- [ATOM and RSS feeds](Usage.md#rss-feeds) (can also be filtered using tags or text search)
57- [Daily](Usage.md#daily): newspaper-like daily digest (and daily RSS feed)
58- URL cleanup: automatic removal of `?utm_source=...`, `fb=...` tracking parameters
59- Extensible through [plugins](Plugins.md)
60- Easily extensible by any client using the [REST API](REST-API.md) exposed by Shaarli
61- Bookmarklet and [other tools](Community-and-related-software.md) to share links in one click
62- Responsive/support for mobile browsers, degrades gracefully with Javascript disabled
63
64
65### Easy setup
66
67- Dead-simple [installation](Installation.md): drop the files on your server, open the page
68- Shaares are stored in a file (no database required, easy [backup](Backup-and-restore.md))
69- [Configurable](Shaarli-configuration.md) from dialog and configuration file
70- Extensible through third-party [plugins and themes](Community-and-related-software.md)
71
72
73### Fast
74
75- Fast! Small datastore file, write-once/read-many, served most of the time from OS disk caches (no disk I/O)
76- Stays fast with even tens of thousands shaares!
77
78
79### Self-hosted
80
81- Shaarli is an alternative to commercial services such as StumbleUpon, Delicio.us, Diigo...
82- The data is yours, [import and export](Usage#import-export) it to HTML bookmarksformat compatible with most web browser, and from a variety of formats
83- Shaarli does not send any telemetry/metrics/private information to developers
84- Shaarli is Free and Open-Source software, inspect and change how the program works in the [source code](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli)
85- Built-in [Security](dev/Development.md#security) features to help you protect your Shaarli instance
86
87
88## About
89
90This [community fork](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli) of the original [Shaarli](https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli/) project by [Sébastien Sauvage](http://sebsauvage.net/) (now [unmaintained](https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli/issues/191)) has carried on the work to provide [many patches](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/compare/sebsauvage:master...master) for [bug fixes and enhancements](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+) in this repository, and will keep maintaining the project for the foreseeable future, while keeping Shaarli simple and efficient.
91
92The original Shaarli instance is still available [here](https://sebsauvage.net/links/) (+25000 shaares!)
93
94
95### Contributing and getting help
96
97Feedback is very appreciated! Feel free to propose solutions to existing problems, help us improve the documentation and translations, and submit pull requests :-)
98
99See [Support](Troubleshooting.md#support) to get in touch with the Shaarli community.
100
101
102### License
103
104Shaarli is [Free Software](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software). See
105[COPYING](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/blob/master/COPYING) for a detail
106of the contributors and licenses for each individual component. A list of
107contributors is available
108[here](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/blob/master/AUTHORS).
109