bookmarks/API.md

REST API

This is the REST API exposed by Nextcloud Bookmarks.

Authentication

In order to access the REST API you will need to provide credentials for the user on behalf of which you'd like to access the bookmarks app. This can be done using Basic Auth and must happen for every request.

Query bookmarks

GET
/index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/bookmark

Parameters:

• (optional) tags[]: array of tags that bookmarks returned by the endpoint should have
• (optional) conjunction: Set to and to require all tags to be present, or if one should suffice. Default: or
• (optional) page: if this is non-negative, results will be paginated by 10 bookmarks a page. Default: 0
• (optional) sortby: The column to sort the results by; one of url, title, description, public, lastmodified, clickcount. Default: lastmodified.
• (optional) search[]: An array of words to search for in the following columns url, title, description
• (optional) user: Instead of returning the bookmarks of the current user, return the public bookmarks of the user passed as this parameter.
• (optional) folder: Only return bookmarks that are direct children of the folder with the passed ID. The root folder has id -1.
• (optional) url: Only return bookmarks with this URL. This will only ever return just one bookmark or none, because the app doesn't store duplicates. Thus, with this parameter you can test whether a URL exists in the user's bookmarks. This parameter cannot be mixed with the others.

Example:

GET
/index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/bookmark?tags[]=firsttag&tags[]=secondtag&page=-1

{
	"status": "success",
	"data": [{ "id": "7", "title": "Google", "tags": ["firsttag"] /*...*/ }]
}

Create a bookmark

POST
/index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/bookmark

Parameters:

• url: the url of the new bookmark
• (optional) item[tags][]: Array of tags for this bookmark (these needn't exist and are created on-the-fly)
• (optional) title: the title of the bookmark. If absent the title of the html site referenced by url is used
• (optional) is_public: Set this parameter (without a value) to mark the new bookmark as public, so that other users can see it
• (optional) description: A description for this bookmark
• (optional) folders: An array of IDs of the folders this bookmark should reside in.

Example:

POST /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/bookmark?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&title=Google&description=in%20case%20you%20forget&item[tags][]=search-engines&item[tags][]=uselessbookmark

{
	"status": "success",
	"item": {
		"id": "7",
		"url": "http://google.com",
		"title": "Google"
		//...
	}
}

Get a bookmark

GET /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/bookmark/:id

• id: The id of the bookmark to edit

Parameters:

• (optional) user: The user this bookmark belongs to

Example:

GET /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/bookmark/7

{
	"status": "success",
	"item": {
		"id": "7",
		"url": "http://google.com",
		"title": "Boogle"
		//...
	}
}

Edit a bookmark

PUT /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/bookmark/:id

• id: The id of the bookmark to edit

Parameters:

• record_id: The id of the bookmark to edit
• (optional) url: The new url
• (optional) item[tags][]: the new tags. Existing tags will be deleted.
• (optional) title: The new title
• (optional) is_public: Set or leave unset to set the new public status.
• (optional) description: The new description.
• (optional) folders: The folders this bookmark should reside in.

Example:

PUT /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/bookmark/7?record_id=7&title=Boogle

{
	"status": "success",
	"item": {
		"id": "7",
		"url": "http://google.com",
		"title": "Boogle"
		//...
	}
}

Delete a bookmark

DELETE /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/bookmark/:id

• id: The bookmark to delete

Note: This will remove the bookmark from all folders it resided in.

Parameters: None

Example:

DELETE /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/bookmark/7

{ "status": "success" }

List all tags

GET /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/tag

Parameters: None

Example:

GET /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/tag

["politics", "satire", "tech", "music", "art", "blogs", "personal"]

Delete a tag

DELETE /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/tag

Parameters:

• old_name: the name of the tag to delete

Example:

DELETE /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/tag?old_name=mytag

{ "status": "success" }

Rename a tag

POST /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/tag

Parameters:

• old_name: The name of the tag to rename
• new_name: The new name of the tag

Example:

POST /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/tag?old_name=politics&new_name=satire

{ "status": "success"}

List folders

GET /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder

Parameters:

• (optional) root: The id of the folder to start listing folders from. (Default: -1; the root folder)
• (optional) layers: How many layers of folders to return at max. By default, all layers are returned.

Example:

GET /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder

{"status": "success", "data": [
  {"id": "1", "title": "work", "parent_folder": "-1"},
  {"id": "2", "title": "personal", "parent_folder": "-1", "children": [
    {"id": "3", "title": "garden", "parent_folder": "2"},
    {"id": "4", "title": "music", "parent_folder": "2"}
  ]},
]}

Show single folder

GET /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder/:id

• id: The id of the folder to show

Parameters: None

Example:

GET /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder/2

{"status": "success", "item": {"id": "2", "title": "personal", "parent_folder": "-1"}}

Create folder

POST /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder

Parameters:

• title: The title of the new folder
• parent_folder: The id of the parent folder for the new folder

Example:

POST /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder

{"title": "sports", "parent_folder": "-1"}

{ "status": "success", "item": {"id": 5, "title": "sports", "parent_folder": "-1"}}

Edit folders

PUT /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder/:id

Parameters:

• (optional) title: The new title for the folder
• (optional) parent_folder: The new parent to move the folder to

Example:

PUT /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder/5

{"title": "physical activity"}

{ "status": "success", "item": {"id": 5, "title": "physical activity", "parent_folder": "-1"}}

Hash folders

GET /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder/:id/hash

Parameters:

• (optional) fields[]: All bookmarks fields that should be hashed (default: title, url)

Example:

GET /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder/5/hash

{ "status": "success", "data": "65432378"}

Description:

This endpoint is useful for synchronizing data between the server and a client. By comparing the hash of the data on your client with the hash from the server you can figure out which parts of the tree have changed.

The algorithm works as follows:

• Hash endpoint: hashFolder(id, fields)
• hashFolder(id, fields)
  • for all children of the folder
    • if it's a folder
      • add to childrenHashes: hashFolder(folderId, fields)
    • if it's a bookmark
      • add to childrenHashes: hashBookmark(bookmarkId, fields)
  • Return sha256(to_json({title: folderTitle, children: childrenHashes})) with the title being unset in case of the root folder
• hashBookmark(id, fields)
  • for all entries in fields
    • set object[field] to the value of the associated field of the bookmark
  • Return sha256(to_json(object))
• to_json: A JSON stringification algorithm that adds no unnecessary white-space and doesn't use JSON's backslash escaping unless necessary (character set is UTF-8)
• sha256: The SHA-256 hashing algorithm

Delete folders

DELETE /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder/:id

• id: The id of the folder to remove

Parameters: None

Example:

DELETE /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder/2

{"status": "success"}

Put bookmarks into a folder

POST /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder/:id/bookmarks/:bookmark

• id: The id of the folder
• bookmark: The id of the bookmark to put into the folder

Parameters: None

Example:

POST /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder/2/bookmarks/15

{"status": "success"}

Remove a bookmark from a folder

DELETE /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder/:id/bookmarks/:bookmark

• id: The id of the folder
• bookmark: The id of the bookmark to put into the folder

Parameters: None

Example:

DELETE /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder/2/bookmarks/15

{"status": "success"}

Order folder contents

PATCH /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder/:id/childorder

• id: the folder's ID

Parameters:

• data: An array of children objects with two keys each: type and id, where type is either bookmark or folder

Example:

PATCH /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder/2/childorder

{"data": [
  {"type": "folder", "id": "17"},
  {"type": "bookmark", "id": "204"},
  {"type": "bookmark", "id": "192"},
  {"type": "bookmark", "id": "210"}
]}

{ "status": "success"}

Retrieve current order of folder contents

GET /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder/:id/childorder

• id: the folder's ID

Parameters: None

Example:

GET /index.php/apps/bookmarks/public/rest/v2/folder/2/childorder

{ "status": "success", "data": [
  {"type": "folder", "id": "17"},
  {"type": "bookmark", "id": "204"},
  {"type": "bookmark", "id": "192"},
  {"type": "bookmark", "id": "210"}
]}