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.

• 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!

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.

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

Crestify is BSD licensed. See LICENSE for more details.