omnivore

Many of you might be familiar with Omnivore. It was a cloud-hosted Read it Later app that later shutdown due to the owners going to work for ElevenLabs. If you are familiar with it, you'll know that it was a pretty feature-filled reader that became an essential part of peoples reading / articling habit. Shortly before the shutdown I was tasked with ensuring that Omnivore could live on as a self-hosted application. By the time the Omnivore application shut down there was a fully-self hostable version available. I didn't do much to advertise this at the time. We had a pretty sturdy community on Discord and those who needed that information found it. I wanted to advertise it now because I have made a few changes to the setup, and I figured it might be a nice time for people to jump in. I've included a link in the URL with a bunch of screensh

I worked on getting [Omnivore](https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore) from cloud to self hosting. I never appreciated the value of Self-hosting until then. I was so sick of finding new services to do essentially the same thing. I just wanted some stability. Now I can continue using the thing I was already using, and have developed my own custom RSS Reader ontop of Omnivore. I don't need to care about things breaking my flow. I can update the parsing logic if websites break, or I want to bypass some paywalls. It really changed my view on Self-hosting.

Personally, I am and always was very put off by Wallabag's design. It seems permanently stuck in the 2010s default Bootstrap era. There was and technically still is Omnivore (https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore), but it got aquired by ElevenLabs last year and the official instance got shut down. Shiori (https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori) also comes to mind, but I think that's about it. As for closed source solutions, I'd say Readwise Reader (https://readwise.io/read) actually innovated a little bit for the first time in over a decade by catering to power users, but I didn't use it often enough to justify a perpetual $10/month subscription (no free tier what so ever). Nowadays I just use Obsidian's web clipper.

Maybe https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore. And there are several bookmark managers like https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep, https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden, https://github.com/goniszewski/grimoire.

Isn’t Omnivore discontinued? I didn’t hear what happened when they joined ElevenLabs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41985118 Apparently the community is trying to shape the project into a workable self-hosted state. Ironic post from two months ago about a user trying to migrate away from Pocket to Omnivore: https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/issues/4550 Same community users provide crowdsourced list of open source alternatives to Omnivore: https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/issues/4462

While the Kobo app is still available an alternative might be: Self-Host Omnivore: https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/blob/main/self-host... Use this proxy to point to the Self-Hosted instance to pull from Omnivore Instead. https://github.com/Podginator/KoboOmnivoreConverter This is what I've been doing for a year or so now. I hope they don't remove the Kobo integration code from my Kobo.

It is Self-Hostable. I worked on the self-hosting stuff. Follow the guide here if you're interested: https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/blob/main/self-host...

If you like Self-Hosting - Omnivore is still a fantastic product. And the iOS app has been recently fixed to work with Self-Hosting! https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore

https://bookmarkos.com/ https://grimoire.pro/ https://hoarder.app/ https://mymind.com/ https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/ https://zotero.org/

It already has a self-hosting option: https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/tree/main/self-host... It's just not documented well.

For those of us curious about what Omnivore is: https://omnivore.app/ Source code: https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore

Could it be a "read it later" type of article reader/storage service? I know of at least one that fits the bill in that it uploads locally-viewed HTML to a server which then renders that page in a headless Chrome instance for archival: I've recently been wondering how Omnivore, unlike e.g. Pocket, is able to store paywalled content (for which I have a subscription) on iOS when saving it via the Omnivore app target in the share sheet, but not when directly pasting the target URL in the webapp or iOS app. Turns out that sharing to an iOS app actually enables [1] the app to run JavaScript in the Safari web context of the displayed page, including cookies and everything! If I'm skimming the client and server source code correctly, it does just that: It seems to serialize and upload the HTML of the page [2] and then invokes Puppeteer on the se

I'm quite happy with Omnivore: https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore It's open source, I can host it myself it I want to but the reference hosted version on omnivore.app is free and quite reliable. Dark mode, progressive webapp, native apps, full text search, Obsidian integration, Pocket migration. Compare that with instapaper: Terrible Android app that looks like Android apps from 2015, okayish iPad/iOS apps, quite expensive now, every interesting feature behind a paywall. I guess if you're into the minimalist aesthetic or if you've grown accustomed to it, sure, keep on using it. But it feels as if this product has been somewhat on extended life support and people would care a lot less if it wasn't run by Marco Arment.

I used to use Pocket extensively until I realized it wasn't going anywhere with features. I have since moved to Omnivore [1] and I couldn't be happier. The devs are also ex-Pocket users and have worked hard to get feature parity and then some. There are mobile apps too for reading on the go (and work offline) which I use extensively when I am on flights. There is a graphql API and webhooks you can use for extending its functionality. Search could be a little better, but I use the labeling system which works well. I also use the logseq integration to keep a persistent log of articles I read on any given day. [1] https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore

There's also a self hosting option which is on the list to try.. https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore