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    "tagline": "Minimal self-hosted bookmark manager with LD_* env config and a documented REST API.",
    "shortTagline": "Minimal self-hosted bookmarks",
    "description": "linkding is a Django bookmark manager built to be small, fast, and Docker-first: tags, markdown notes, read-it-later, archiving to local HTML or the Internet Archive, sharing, and browser extensions. Configuration is entirely LD_* environment variables, and the REST API with token auth covers bookmarks, assets, tags, and bundles.",
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      "Raindrop.io",
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        "JavaScript"
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      },
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        "job": "Import and export Netscape HTML",
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      },
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        "job": "User administration",
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      "Single-maintainer project that declines features outside its scope (README)",
      "Local HTML archiving requires the single-file sidecar image variant (linkding:latest-plus)",
      "Managed hosting on linkding.link is third-party (not a Builder edition)"
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      "chickenzord/linkding-mcp (15 stars, 2026-05-25) is the only wrapper; note as runner-up if the Curator prefers an MCP entry point"
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        "url": "https://linkding.link/api/",
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