Anchr

Anchr is a small toolbox for common tasks on the internet, including bookmarks, link shortening and image uploads.

🚀 Features

• Link shortener
• Searchable bookmarks collections
• Encrypted images uploads, using CryptoJS
• Malicious link checking, using Safe Browsing API
• Self-hosted and open-source
• Hosted, GDPR-compliant service at Anchr.io
• Official Android app
• Chrome and Firefox browser extension
• Prometheus metrics
• Integration with ShareX
• OAuth 2 authentication (Google, Facebook, ...)
• Telegram Bot (@AnchrBot)

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🗒 Description

The idea arose when someday I considered it useful to have a collection of web links or bookmarks – like those you have in Chrome or Firefox – accessible from anywhere without needing to synchronize your browser profile. Just like if you’re somewhere on another PC, find a useful article on the internet and want to save it quickly for later at home. This is what Anchr’s collections feature does. It saves links – with an optional description for easier search and separated into categories / collections.

The second feature is to upload images. You can easily upload one or more photos from your computer or mobile device and send them to friends or include them into forum posts or the like. Special with Anchr’s image hosting is that users are given the opportunity to client-sided encrypt images with a password. As a result no one without the password will ever see their photos’ content.

The last feature are shortlinks – actually not any different from those you know from goo.gl or bit.ly. They’re useful if you have a very long web link including many query parameters, access tokens, session ids, special characters and the like and want to share them. Often special characters break the linking or your chat application has a maximum length for hyperlinks. Or you just want to keep clarity in your document or emails. In this case it can be very helpful to make the links as short as any possible. Additiona