Browser-based capture
Save articles, docs, and references in one click or keyboard shortcut via extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.
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REST API · MCP Server · Webhooks · n8n
Your personal content library, with an API.
Save technical articles, documentation, and reference material in one searchable library. Then access it through the web, REST API, MCP, webhooks, or your own automations.
No credit card required.
Sources Saved
Documentation
Architecture Posts
RFCs & Deep Dives
GitHub Discussions
Bredbox Library Core
Preserved Article Content
Full text, reader view, and metadata stored durably
Dual Search Engine
Full-text keywords + semantic vector embeddings
Tags & Collections
Flexible taxonomy, notes, and highlights
Your Workflows
REST API JSON / Scoped Tokens
MCP Server Claude / Cursor
Webhooks Signed Event Streams
n8n Node Visual Pipelines
Core Capture
Save it once. Use it anywhere.
Developers constantly encounter useful technical material across documentation sites, blog posts, architecture writeups, RFCs, and GitHub discussions. Bredbox provides one durable place to preserve and retrieve it without forcing you into a single interface.
Preserved content copies
Bredbox extracts and stores article text and reader formatting, so 404s, domain drops, and redesigns don’t destroy your references.
Durable offline copies
Full-text & semantic search
Search full article text by exact syntax, error codes, or high-level technical concepts when your memory is fuzzy.
Lexical + Vector indexing
Tags & collections
Organize research by system architecture, stack, or project without rigid folder hierarchies. Add notes and highlights freely.
Flexible taxonomy & notes
Developer Platform
Your library shouldn’t end at our UI.
Bredbox gives you four supported ways to access, automate, and build on top of your saved material. Connect your library to your terminal scripts, AI assistants, webhook receivers, and workflow engines.
REST API v2
https://api.bredbox.app/v2
Direct programmatic control
Control every aspect of your account from code. Query saves, retrieve preserved article markdown and extracted text, filter by tags, manage collections, and ingest URLs directly from scripts and applications.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $BREDBOX_TOKEN" \
https://api.bredbox.app/v2/saves Scoped Bearer Tokens View API Reference
Model Context Protocol
mcp.bredbox.app/mcp
Connect AI tools to what you saved
Give Claude, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible AI assistant safe, scoped access to search, read, and organize your library. Let your tools work directly from sources you have personally selected and verified.
Sample Assistant Prompts:
“Find what I saved about PostgreSQL connection pooling and summarize the tradeoffs.”
“Search my library for articles on distributed rate limiting and extract the code examples.”
Safe consent & scoped permissions Standard MCP Connector
Event Streams
Standard Webhooks
React in real time to changes
Stop polling the API. Bredbox delivers signed webhook payloads to your HTTPS endpoint the moment an event occurs in your account, making event-driven pipelines simple and reliable.
- save.created · New URL saved
- save.metadata.completed · Content parsed
- save.tags.updated · Tag changes
- save.highlight.created · Passages saved
HMAC-SHA256 signatures Replay Protection
Workflow Automation
n8n Community Node
Automate without boilerplate glue code
Connect your reading library to databases, notification channels, RSS feeds, and messaging tools in n8n. Ingest links automatically or route new saves to downstream storage without writing custom server code.
Auto-save starred GitHub repositories or RSS feeds
Sync specific tags into Obsidian, Notion, or local SQLite
Trigger AI summarization pipelines on metadata completion
Custom n8n Node n8n Integration Node
Hybrid Search
Search what you saved, even when you don’t remember the keywords.
Developers remember architecture patterns, bugs investigated, and concepts learned—but rarely remember the exact title or author months later. Bredbox combines full-text indexing with semantic vector search so you can find what you need from vague recollection.
#01 Full-Text Lexical Search
Exact token matching
When you know the specific function name, error message, RFC identifier, or CLI flag, full-text search matches precisely across titles, domains, URLs, and article contents.
// Query exact tokens
query: “PRAGMA journal_mode = WAL”
→ Matches exact string across all saved SQLite articles
#02 Semantic Vector Search
Conceptual similarity
When you only recall the high-level technique or problem solved, semantic search matches the underlying meaning even if the saved article used completely different terminology.
// Query vague recollection
query: “preventing cache stampede thundering herd”
→ Finds: “Mitigating Cache Stampedes with Probabilistic Expiration”
Context & Verification
Keep the sources behind the answers.
AI is more useful when it can work from material you deliberately chose and can inspect yourself.
Curated, trusted context
Instead of relying on generic web queries or training cutoff data, provide your AI tools with the exact documentation and engineering guides you have reviewed and saved.
Inspect the raw sources
Every answer synthesized by an AI assistant can be cross-checked against your preserved article copy, complete with original code examples and context.
Human judgment remains first
AI doesn’t replace reading, research, or engineering judgment. It provides faster retrieval and synthesis across your personal knowledge base.
Ownership & Portability
Build on Bredbox. Keep control of your library.
Your library belongs to you. You can export everything at any time in open, standard formats, or build independent tooling around your data.
Full Archive (Pocket ZIP)
Complete structured data
Download a comprehensive ZIP containing your saves CSV, custom collections, tags, highlights, notes, and preserved article contents.
Includes full saved text
Bookmarks HTML
Universal standard format
Export a standard Netscape-format bookmarks HTML file ready to import into any web browser or third-party bookmarking application.
Browser-compatible standard
Open Standards
No proprietary lock-in
Interact with JSON schemas, standard Bearer auth, Standard Webhooks signing, and open MCP protocols that remain portable.
JSON · Webhooks · MCP
Build your library. Then build whatever you want around it.
Save technical articles, documentation, and reference material in one searchable library. Access it through the web, REST API, MCP, webhooks, or your own automations.
No credit card required.