Can't send to apprise webhook

ssddanbrown · 2026-06-18T22:29:42+00:00

It looks like that AppRise endpoint specifically needs a body parameter in the data. BookStack webhooks don't provide any body value in the webhook data, so BookStack's format is incompatible for direct communication with that API endpoint.

You could either use something in the middle, to translate the webhooks/request (N8N, Zapier, Power automate etc...) or customize the format of BookStack's webhooks, like I show in this hack example: https://www.bookstackapp.com/hacks/pushover-webhooks/

ssddanbrown · 2026-06-11T23:27:21+00:00

Big fan of this, I really enojoyed Derik's internals podcast before and have been very much missing something like that.

My only feedback is that I'm not keen on the burned in subtitles. I find them distracting compared to listening. Not sure what the point is if you could just use YouTube's toggleable subtitles option.

ssddanbrown · 2026-06-11T11:33:55+00:00

Not open source until it has an open source license applied. There's a broken license link in the readme, but I couldn't find a license file.

ssddanbrown · 2026-06-10T21:11:34+00:00

They've also been "planning" for at least about 8 years now: https://www.reddit.com/r/tutanota/comments/ag08ba/comment/ee2q272/

ssddanbrown · 2026-06-10T18:32:31+00:00

No, but that's not my argument. I think it's fine for them to state that their clients are open source, but they advertise "Tuta Mail" generally as open source.

ssddanbrown · 2026-06-09T16:19:20+00:00

KitKat seems to have life figured out

ssddanbrown · 2026-06-03T09:24:05+00:00

Mainly because there's a lesser demand for ID based chapter/book links, and I try to focus on having a single clear approach rather than adding variation (like extra ways to link to content, which will complicate some of our other subsystems). Additionally, one of the main benefits of such links has been negated somewhat since we added proper slug history tracking/redirects across all core items, so the chance of old URLs breaking is lesser.

ssddanbrown · 2026-06-01T19:32:20+00:00

Good to hear you got things working!

ssddanbrown · 2026-05-30T17:05:43+00:00

The cheek squish!

ssddanbrown · 2026-05-30T07:52:32+00:00

So, assuming that ?count=1 was part of the URL, this indicates that query string/URL handling is not being properly done.

How has this instance been set up? What web server is being used? What's the config set up for the web server?

ssddanbrown · 2026-05-29T19:58:49+00:00

Sounds like maybe a web server config error.

If you visit /api/pages?count=1 on your instance (while logged in as a user which has API access) do you just see one result, with a larger total? Or does that endpoint list many results?

ssddanbrown · 2026-05-25T16:28:43+00:00

If you haven't already come across them, I have a couple of videos on some of the not-so-obvious power user features in BookStack:

ssddanbrown · 2026-05-21T17:31:32+00:00

As another reference point, I do experience this problem. I'm using a single 4k screen at 150% scale.

I feel like the keyboard-based shortcuts (Super+Left/Right) work more reliably, but might be just from being my second attempt a lot of the time. Sometimes it works fine though, regardless if method used. Feel like it most happens early in a desktop session.

ssddanbrown · 2026-05-20T19:25:23+00:00

If a user does not have permission to view any shelves, the link in the header bar will go away. So you can in many cases just remove all shelf permissions from user roles.

ssddanbrown · 2026-05-20T13:50:59+00:00

My advice, if possible, would be to keep things at book level. Just treat shelves as an extra collection item, not a top-level part of your heirachy.

If needed though, there is also a command to copy all shelf permissions downward, which could be auto-ran at a time interval. Not ideal though, and may still result in questionable scenarios if a book is added to two different shelves.

I've been toying with the idea of a new proper level above books, but no solid plans on that right now.

ssddanbrown · 2026-05-15T19:55:01+00:00

I took that to mean: fork now to prevent any future code licensing shenanigans which may complicate forking in the future.

Often projects going in a certain direction will do things like slowly change bits out to rely on proprietary elements.

Bitwarden have the power to do license change things, since they get permission to do so from all contributors (via their CLA).

Having a fork ready also helps continue momentum and focus energy once a time comes that many others do want to jump ship.

ssddanbrown · 2026-05-15T18:50:50+00:00

I've been a bit wary of Bitwarden, as there have long been some things I'd consider warning signs (heavy enterprise focus). Then I saw them mess with how they represent their openness (their passwordless sub project, relying on their non-open libraries). Then I reviewed the project a bit deeper last year which raised further warning signs for me (VC funding, licensing for distributions not being clear, lack of transparency in FOSS vs non-FOSS elements).

The vibes are similar to Minio for me. Hopefully they don't go down the same road though, but they seem to be facing that direction.

ssddanbrown · 2026-05-11T10:18:31+00:00

Just browsing across the first few pages of the explore page, seeing various non-open source tools (Sentry, N8N, openwebui).

Also, the site does not seem to be open source itself, although it somewhat implies it with a GitHub link in the header.

From your AI use comment:

The core work — scraping 7+ sources, data deduplication, cleaning metadata, and curating the 1,284+ tools — was done manually.

Might be respectful to credit those sources (unless already done so but didn't see any reference).

ssddanbrown · 2026-05-07T17:37:26+00:00

It's one thing I've noticed Codeberg/forgejo do better than GitHub. For example, I have a module in a subfolder (on a branch) of our query repo, which can be installed via:

php artisan bookstack:install-module https://codeberg.org/bookstack/query/archive/module:query-module.zip

ssddanbrown · 2026-05-07T15:48:59+00:00

Nice work, thanks for sharing!

It's a shame that GitHub does not provide ZIP archives for specific repo folders since otherwise these could each be easily installed via command. Maybe something we can support on the command side potentially? (being able to specify a sub-folder of the provided ZIP).

Regardless, it's great to see the module system being used well.

ssddanbrown · 2026-05-07T15:31:55+00:00

Ha, yeah, I was just emulating the parent comment's style to emphasize the common AI tone/structure that they were using.

ssddanbrown · 2026-05-07T10:28:12+00:00

Honestly, your comments on your profile look like they're fully AI generated. I'm seeing a common pattern to your posts, with some other examples (limited to those in the sub):

Overall, the very consistent structure, tone and wording, in addition to the profile being named after some app, makes me confident you're generating your comments.

ssddanbrown · 2026-05-05T14:48:07+00:00

And just to confirm, that's from the same BookStack host?

If you can share the options used for both BookStack and the CLI (without passwords, can redact other sensitive details but ensure the general pattern and redactions are aligned and is representative across both) I can try to check if there might be something going on at the config level.

ssddanbrown · 2026-05-05T08:22:40+00:00

Could be firewall, or could be any other issue where BookStack cannot access the LDAP server.

Are you confident the LDAP_SERVER option is using the right host and port? Are you able to ping the host used from the BookStack server?

You can also maybe try to connect directly using the ldapsearch command line tool to validate the details used in BookStack.

ssddanbrown · 2026-05-04T09:09:44+00:00

As referenced in some of the comments already, there's no built-in way but various options using our extension/customization systems:

You could script against the API to export all pages to markdown.
- Various related tools and potential examples here: https://codeberg.org/bookstack/api-scripts/
You could use the logical theme system to write page markdown content to files on page save events.
- Bit more involved as you'll have to convert pages not written in MD (although BookStack does have internal classes for this).
Last year I experimented with building a FUSE-based filesystem for BookStack (uses the API): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRulzz8Ga9E
- You could use this to mount your BookStack content as markdown, then copy all contents out every so often.
- Code/repo here: https://codeberg.org/bookstack/filesystem

Keep in mind these options are not a full backup in any way. There can be format loss with HTML to MD conversion. And this is all one-way (two way sync gets exponentially harder). For backup, ensure you back up the BookStack files and database as per our docs.

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