Self-Hosted Alternatives to Pocket and Wallabag
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aandryyy · 2023-11-06 14:13

Hi everyone,

I'm in search of a self-hosted alternative to Pocket. My attempt at
using Wallabag wasn't successful; I encountered errors with DBs and an
issue with Docker that caused high CPU usage ([detailed issue
here](https://github.com/wallabag/docker/issues/387)).

I'm looking for a reliable service that allows me to save and download
articles, YouTube videos, and GitHub repos. It's essential to have
support for multiple clients, including web and iOS.

Wallabag had the features I needed, but since I can't get it to work,
I'm wondering: what other services do you recommend?

Or does anyone have a working docker compose file for Wallabag?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

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rrrmmmrrrmmm · 2023-11-06 15:43

[In the two day old thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/commen
ts/17ny1xn/looking_for_pocket_self_hosted_option/) "Omnivore" was
recommended but [there are some open
issues](https://github.com/omnivore-
app/omnivore/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+self+host).

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junkleon7 · 2023-11-07 02:43

Try this:

```
version: '3'
services:
  wallabag:
    image: wallabag/wallabag
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=
      - SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_DRIVER=pdo_mysql
      - SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_HOST=db
      - SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_PORT=3306
      - SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_NAME=wallabag
      - SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_USER=wallabag
      - SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_PASSWORD=
      - SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_CHARSET=utf8mb4
      - SYMFONY__ENV__DOMAIN_NAME=


    ports:
      - "85:80"
    volumes:
      - ./images:/var/www/wallabag/web/assets/images
    restart: always
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "wget" ,"--no-verbose", "--tries=1", "--spider",
"http://localhost"]
      interval: 1m
      timeout: 3s
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
  db:
    image: mariadb
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=
    volumes:
      - ./data:/var/lib/mysql
    restart: always
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "mysqladmin" ,"ping", "-h", "localhost"]
      interval: 20s
      timeout: 3s
  redis:
    image: redis:alpine
    restart: always
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "redis-cli", "ping"]
      interval: 20s
      timeout: 3s

```

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aandryyy · 2023-11-07 08:52

Unfortunately I still have the same issue :/
I switched to the not self hosted version of Ominivore since to self
host it and expose it it seems to requre GCP functionalities.

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aandryyy · 2023-11-07 08:53

It is recommended and it is actually what I opted for but
unfortunately it rely on GCP functionalities and therefore it seems it
cant't be fully self hostable right now.

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rrrmmmrrrmmm · 2023-11-07 09:21

I know. It's [one of the issues I linked
to](https://github.com/omnivore-
app/omnivore/issues/25#issue-1134368549).

Furthermore I think that nothing new happened in the selfhosted space
during the two days this was asked before. ;)

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arcadianarcadian · 2023-11-08 12:08

wallabag:
    image: wallabag/wallabag:latest
    container_name: wallabag
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - TZ=Europe/Berlin
      - VIRTUAL_HOST=read.example.com
      - VIRTUAL_PORT=80
      - SYMFONY__ENV__SERVER_NAME="read.example.com"
      - SYMFONY__ENV__DOMAIN_NAME=https://read.example.com
      - SYMFONY__ENV__MAILER_HOST=mail.example.com
      - SYMFONY__ENV__FROM_EMAIL="wallabag@example.com"
      - SYMFONY__ENV__MAILER_USER=""
      - SYMFONY__ENV__MAILER_PASSWORD=""
      - SYMFONY__ENV__FOSUSER_REGISTRATION=false
      - SYMFONY__ENV__FOSUSER_CONFIRMATION=false
      - SYMFONY__ENV__TWOFACTOR_AUTH=true
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
    volumes:
      - /opt/data/wallabag/data:/var/www/wallabag/data
      - /opt/data/wallabag/images:/var/www/wallabag/web/assets/images
    networks:
      - proxy-network

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clach04 · 2023-11-08 14:59

I think you are looking for 3 different apps:

1. read it later -like clone
2. video downloader
3. project (code, issues, releases, wiki) cloner

I'm not aware of an app that does does all three. I think you will
need separate apps.

I'm not clear what functionality you are looking for for #1 but
[https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori](https://github.com/go-
shiori/shiori) \*\*might\*\* handle some of your needs. It does a
better job than Wallabag for downloading articles but it does not
track read-progress and does not have any clients other then web
browser.

I've started a Wallabag API clone [https://github.com/clach04/whatabag
acack](https://github.com/clach04/whatabagacack) but it is not usable
yet (I don't have the free time I want to make quicker progress :-().

I can recommend the non-self hosted Wallabag instance, cheap and those
guys are very responsive. But I found the success rate of scraping was
lower than I wanted.