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Create your own social bookmarking site with scuttle

May 5, 2007 by 22 Comments

Scuttle is a free open source software for creating social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us. You can create a social bookmarking site in minutes using scuttle for your personal or for community use. Scuttle code is available from sourceforge.net.

Scuttle supports most of the del.icio.us API, so you can modify the del.icio.us tools to work with scuttle.
Import your existing bookmarks from browsers or from del.icio.us.
Scuttle is Ajaxified. It generates RSS feeds.


Installation:

Download the files from sourceforge.net project page and upload it to your server where you want to install scuttle.

Rename the config.inc.php.example file to config.inc.php and fill the database information. Enter host as localhost (most of the cases), no need to change port, username and password and upload it to your server. You would also want to change the name of the site, go down in config.inc.php file you will find sitename tag (line 88) there enter your sitename by replacing scuttle.

Create a database in the server and load the tables.sql file, this can be done through phpmyadmin.

Once database is setup point your borwser to your site, now it should show you the scuttle bookmark site.

Register now as a user and start using it to store your bookmarks. Scuttle doesn’t creat any admin users because there is nothing much for admin to do in the site. If you prefer not to allow users to register in your site, you can delete the register.php page. If you ever wanted to add users you can add them to the database. I will explain that below.

How to add users from phpMyAdmin:

Enter phpmyadmin and select your scuttle database. Select sc_users table from the database, click on insert tab in phpmyadmin
now enter user details like uId (userid), username and password. Password should be md5 hashed for security. See the below snapshots on how to do md5 hashing.

After md5 hashing passwords look like this

Thats all, now your social bookmarking site is ready, enjoy :)

You may also want to check how to create your own social networking site

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  • http://www.benh.org/techblog Benedict Herold

    This sound something similar to Pligg.com But I don’t think these kind of freely available social bookmarking site are popular..!

  • http://www.teknobites.com ram

    Its not pligg type but its more like del.icio.us. this is good for personal bookmark manager.

  • arnold

    Hi, there’s a small error in the article. To add users from phpMyAdmin, passwords must be SHA1 hashed, **not** MD5. MD5 does not work at all.

  • http://www.teknobites.com ram

    @arnold
    I am not sure what u say,
    but as i said MD5 is working in my case, did u saw the pics above.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com Shankar Ganesh

    Seems pretty cool. Will try out soon. As you said, it’ll be useful for personal bookmarking.

  • http://www.teknobites.com ram

    for personal use its good, i am using it

  • http://fa.vorites.com Favorites

    Thank you very much.

  • paul

    I’d pay for a firefox .xpi extension with api files for server. Can’t work out how to adapt scuttlelicious.xpi to point to my site (selfploitation.com) instead of scuttle.org

    Seen a german site has done it with alltagz.de

    I opened it up and found a jar file which I can explore but gawd knows what I need to do now? Maybe consider it for the next update? If you or anyone can make me one easily I’ll give you some cash for your time – as long as it’s just an hour’s work or so? email me (paul) at support@selfploitation.com thanks

  • http://www.thepsychfiles.com Michael

    Installation went okay except I’m getting this error message when I click on About, Register or Login:

    No input file specified.

    Any suggestions on how to fix this?

    thanks

  • http://www.asterhost.com/ Web Hosting

    ups I am getting 500 server error when trying to setup scuttle

  • vdias

    Web Hosting, check your .htaccess file

  • Jason Oconner

    Hi:

    There should be a admin area to customize the look of the website, add catagories. Is there a more professional script for social book-marking sites

  • Buy Tees

    Yes I agree – an admin section would really help!

  • Buy Tees

    Did anyone find any alternative script yet?

  • Umesh bhandari

    Can Scuttle be integrated with Openldap?

  • jane

    Hey guys, I tryid to instal this in a subfolder, and I need to set the haccess, when i do I get a server error 500.
    Help, what is wrong?

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  • http://www.tw-youli.com.tw Ken

    This is a new social bookmark software for me. How does Scuttle bring traffic for your website? Like del.icio.us. ? Or other way?

  • scuttleuser

    I keep getting an error that says the user is denied access, using password = “yes” even though I changed the password. Any thoughts?

  • Benjamin HKB

    Scuttle is now updated quite rarely. One year ago, we started a fork called SemanticScuttle and offering new features like structured tags or tag descriptions. This new project is particularly adapted for social bookmarking in small communities where people share or try to share a same vision of a domain.

    If you are interested : http://sourceforge.net/projects/semanticscuttle/

  • Raj

    If you are looking for a more robust enterprise bookmark tool for both structured and unstructured data check out Jumper open source knowledge base software (http://www.jumpernetworks.com).

  • http://www.webfound.us webfound

    hi. I use scuttle almost 3 years now on http://www.webfound.us/bookmarks.php When I first installed it I had the same problems as some of you here.

    I fixed it by leaving the Database Port blank in the config file.

    Also, I simply delete the .htaccess file which was causing the 500 internal server error on my webhost. Only downside was that I couldn’t use the SEO friendlier urls.