Project has been archived and will no longer be maintained. I've decided to move away from standard notes due to both Standard Notes's business and architectural model for self-hosted users.
Standard Notes Extensions - Self-Hosted Repository
Host Standard Notes extensions on your own server. This utility parses most of the open-source extensions available from the Standard Notes team as well as a range of extensions created by the wider Standard Notes community to build an extensions repository which can then be plugged directly into Standard Notes Web/Desktop Clients. (https://standardnotes.org/)
Extensions are listed as YAML
in the /extensions
sub-directory, pull a request if you'd like to add yours.
Requirements
- Python 3
- pyyaml module
- requests module
Demo
Usage
- Clone this repository to your web-server:
$ git clone https://github.com/iganeshk/standardnotes-extensions.git
$ cd standardnotes-extensions
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
- Visit the following link to generate a personal access token:
$ https://github.com/settings/tokens
- Use the provided
env.sample
to create a.env
file for your environment variables and including your Github personal access token.
# Sample ENV setup Variables (YAML)
# Copy this file and update as needed.
#
# $ cp env.sample .env
#
# Do not include this new file in source control
# Github Credentials
# Generate your token here: https://github.com/settings/tokens
# No additional permission required, this is just to avoid github api rate limits
#
domain: https://your-domain.com/extensions
github:
username: USERNAME
token: TOKEN
- [Optional] Add more extensions to the
/extensions
directory, using theYAML
sample templates for extensions or themes, or modify any existing extensions. - Run the utility:
$ python3 build_repo.py
- Serve the
/public
directory and verify that the endpoint is reachable.
https://your-domain.com/extensions/index.json
-
Import the
latest url
for each extension you want to add (for example:https://your-domaim.com/extensions/bold-editor/index.json
) into the Standard Notes Web Desktop client under theGeneral
>Advanced Settings
>Install Custom Extension
menu. (Note: Enable CORS for your web server respectively, nginx setup provided below) -
If you are self-hosting Standard Notes Server (aka Standard Notes Standalone), you may need to add a "subscription" to your self-hosted user account in order to avoid any problems accessing official Standard Notes extensions.
-
To add a subscription to your self-hosted user account, run the following commands (Replace EMAIL@ADDR with your user email) from within your standalone directory:
./server.sh create-subscription EMAIL@ADDR
Docker
- To run via Docker, clone this repository, create your
.env
file using the providedenv.sample
, and optionally add any additional extensions to the/extensions
directory, following the instructions above. - Then pull and run the container, specifying the mount points for the
.env
file, theextensions
directory, and thepublic
directory, where the self-hosted extensions will be placed:
$ docker run \
-v $PWD/.env:/build/.env \
-v $PWD/extensions:/build/extensions \
-v $PWD/public:/build/public \
-v $PWD/standardnotes-extensions-list.txt:/build/standardnotes-extensions-list.txt \
iganesh/standardnotes-extensions
Docker Compose
If you would like to use the container with docker-compose, the exact setup will be somewhat specific to your configuration, however the following snippet may be helpful, assuming you have cloned this repository in your $HOME
directory and followed the instructions regarding the .env
file and /extensions
directory:
version: '3.3'
services:
nginx:
...
volumes:
- standardnotes-extensions:/usr/share/nginx/html
standardnotes-extensions:
image: iganesh/standardnotes-extensions
restart: "no"
volumes:
- $HOME/standardnotes-extensions/.env:/build/.env
- $HOME/standardnotes-extensions/extensions:/build/extensions
- $HOME/standardnotes-extensions/standardnotes-extensions-list.txt:/build/standardnotes-extensions-list.txt
- standardnotes-extensions:/build/public
volumes:
standardnotes-extensions:
name: standardnotes-extensions
This snippet will handle the building of the extension creation-container, and place the result in the standardnotes-extensions
volume, which can then be mounted in the nginx container so that it can be served as demonstrated in the instructions below. Note that it's necessary to include the restart: "no"
flag, because the container is designed to stop after it has finished generating the extensions.
Also, please note that the configuration snippet above is in no way a complete setup: you will still have to configure the nginx container and set up the syncing server containers.
Docker Build
If you need to build the container, clone this repository, cd
into it, and run the following command:
$ docker build --no-cache -t standardnotes-extensions:local .
Setup with nginx
location ^~ /extensions {
autoindex off;
alias /path/to/standardnotes-extensions/public;
# CORS HEADERS
if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
#
# Custom headers and headers various browsers *should* be OK with but aren't
#
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type,Range,X-Application-Version,X-SNJS-Version';
#
# Tell client that this pre-flight info is valid for 20 days
#
add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 1728000;
add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain; charset=utf-8';
add_header 'Content-Length' 0;
return 204;
}
if ($request_method = 'POST') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type,Range,X-Application-Version,X-SNJS-Version';
add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Content-Length,Content-Range';
}
if ($request_method = 'GET') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type,Range,X-Application-Version,X-SNJS-Version';
add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Content-Length,Content-Range';
}
}
Acknowledgments
- This project was adapted originally from https://github.com/JokerQyou/snextensions
- Check out https://github.com/jonhadfield/awesome-standard-notes for more Standard Notes stuff!
- Authors of custom themes and extensions