Self-host Shiori

A simple bookmark manager distributed as a single Go binary, with a web UI and a CLI, offline archives of saved pages, Pocket and Netscape-file import, and SQLite, PostgreSQL or MySQL/MariaDB storage.

Key facts

What you need

• Any VPS with at least 256 MB of RAM
• A domain you control — most self-hosted setups need HTTPS in front of them
• Under an hour if you've used Docker before

Install

Run these commands on your server:

copy# Shiori — official container image, per docs/Usage.md
docker run -d --name shiori -p 8080:8080 \
  -e SHIORI_HTTP_SECRET_KEY=$(openssl rand -hex 32) \
  -v shiori:/shiori --restart unless-stopped \
  ghcr.io/go-shiori/shiori:v1.8.0
# open http://SERVER_IP:8080 — log in as shiori / gopher, then create your own account in Settings

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