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📣 gowings97

Bookmarking with _working_ full text search?


I'm a pinboard.in refuge and I'm still looking for a bookmarking search that performs _working_ full text search for bookmarks I've saved. I want to pay for a service that acts like a personal Google for everything I've bookmarked. I presume that would involve the bookmarking service to save/cache each page I've bookmarked - I'll leave that for the bookmarking service to figure out.

I thought I may have found that with raindrop.io, but searching for a single specific string of text (like 'wine' in a HN URL of people discussing the 'wine' emulator) does not seemingly work with Raindrop. It seems that unless the string is in the URL title or description, the Bookmark service fails/isn't actually performing a full text search of a previously bookmarked page.

  👤 landhar Accepted Answer ✓
Shameless plug:

I’m working on an open-source social bookmarking site in Elixir that is API compatible with delicious/pinboard.

It’s named linkhut and it’s currently able to import your bookmarks from pinboard and browser exports. The flagship instance is: https://ln.ht

I’m still working on the archiving and full text search feature. I’ve been experimenting with different approaches and there’s still a few things I want to explore before settling on a solution.

I get that this is not really useful to you as of now, but if you still haven’t found anything in a couple of months, think about checking it out I might just have launched that feature by then.

👤 LunarAurora
Raindrop.io full text search should work but only in the paid pro plan. And even then, I think the problem with the example you cited is that “comments” are generally stripped off (like they are in “reader mode” apps) so that HN replies are not indexed.

I always recommend Zotero as a local/online bookmark manager. It does full text search, but you have to "save page as snapshot" and set search to "everything", for it to work

👤 saulrh
Not that I know of. Which is to say, I have in the past considered writing a tool to periodically (nightly?) grab my browser history, scrape as much of it as possible, and dump all the html into a directory somewhere where I could invoke ripgrep on it. >_>
👤 notRobot
A few friends and I are working on a solution to this problem right now! Should launch with a Show HN sometime in the next couple weeks!
👤 hamsterbase
You can try hamsterbase.com which I have developed.

1. perfect support for 99% of websites, support import html, mhtml, webarchive.

2. full text search support、provide public api.

3. all functions are completely offline, no account registration, no credit card required, no information collected.

4. currently free in beta

5. support singlefile, singlefile can automatically save all pages viewed.

👤 agencies
Have you tried https://historio.us/ ??
👤 kazinator
If it has to be online somewhere, then just make a link farm page. Go to that page and use text search to find a link, then click on it.

Browsers have bookmark searching; e.g. in Firefox use "* " (star space) before search terms to search bookmarks.

👤 agencies
How much would you be willing to pay for such a service?
👤 Proven
Export to Sqlite or use a bookmark sync manager that uses Sqlite, and use https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html to search.

If you need a Web UI just get one of those analytics/BI freewares that works with Sqlite.