buku/bukuserver

Bukuserver

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Dependencies
  • From PyPi
  • From source
  • Using Docker
  • Using Docker Compose
• Webserver options
• Configuration
• Screenshots

Installation

You need to have some packages before you install bukuserver on your server. So be sure to have python3, python3-pip , python3-dev, libffi-dev packages from your distribution.

Dependencies

$ python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade pip
$ python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv
$ python3 -m virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate

From PyPi

$ pip3 install "buku[server]"

From source

$ git clone https://github.com/jarun/buku
$ cd buku
$ pip3 install .[server]

Using Docker

To build the image execute the command from the root directory of the project:

docker build -t bukuserver .

To run the generated image.

docker run -it --rm -v ~/.local/share/buku:/root/.local/share/buku -p 5001:5001 bukuserver

All the data generated will be stored in the ~/.local/share/buku directory. Feel free to change it to the full path of the location you want to store the database.

Visit 127.0.0.1:5001 in your browser to access your bookmarks.

Using Docker Compose

There is a docker-compose.yml file present in the docker-compose directory in the root of this project. You may modify the configurations in this file to your liking, and then simply execute the below command.

docker-compose up -d

You will have you bukuserver running on port port 80 of the host.

To stop simply run

docker-compose down

In case you want to add basic auth to your hosted instance you may do so by creating a .htpasswd file in the data/basic_auth directory. Add a user to the file using

htpasswd -c data/basic_auth/.htpasswd your_username

And then comment out the basic auth lines from the data/nginx/nginx.conf file.

For more information please refer the nginx docs.

Webserver options

To run the server on host 127.0.0.1, port 5001, run following command:

$ bukuserver run --host 127.0.0.1 --port 5001

Visit 127.0.0.1:5001 in your browser to access your bookmarks.

See more option on bukuserver run --help and bukuserver --help

Configuration

Following are available os env config available for bukuserver.

Name (without prefix)	Description	Value
PER_PAGE	bookmarks per page	positive integer [default: 10]
SECRET_KEY	server secret key	string [default: os.urandom(24)]
URL_RENDER_MODE	url render mode	full or netloc [default: full]
DB_FILE	full path to db file	path string [default: standard path for buku]
DISABLE_FAVICON	disable favicon	boolean [default: true]
OPEN_IN_NEW_TAB	url link open in new tab	boolean [default: false]
REVERSE_PROXY_PATH	reverse proxy path	string

Note: BUKUSERVER_ is the common prefix.

Note: if input is invalid, the default value will be used if defined

e.g. to set bukuserver to show 100 item per page run the following command

# on linux
$ export BUKUSERVER_PER_PAGE=100

# on windows
$ SET BUKUSERVER_PER_PAGE=100

# in dockerfile
ENV BUKUSERVER_PER_PAGE=100

Note: the value for BUKUSERVER_REVERSE_PROXY_PATH is recommended to include preceding slash and not have trailing slash (i.e. use /foo not /foo/)

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