Bookmarking and saving the bookmarks in R shiny

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I am trying to use the bookmark in R shiny app and the save the bookmarks in a table. First stage I want to save them locally. Then save them on a database. Here is the code for bookmarking and saving it on the table. The bookmarking as of now works where it does save only one bookmark to the table. Also does bookmarking with URL work on shinyapps.io which can save the bookmarks to a database residing on AWS.

library(shiny)
library(RSQLite)
library(data.table)

ui <- function(request) {
  fluidPage(
    plotOutput("plot"),
    sliderInput("n", "Number of observations", 1, nrow(faithful), 100),
    fluidRow(column(2, textInput(inputId = "description", label = "Bookmark description", placeholder = "Data Summary")), column(2, bookmarkButton(id="bookmarkBtn"))),
    DT::dataTableOutput("urlTable", width = "100%"),
    tags$style(type='text/css', "#bookmarkBtn { width:100%; margin-top: 25px;}")
  )
}

server <- function(input, output, session) {

  # con <- dbConnect(RSQLite::SQLite(), "bookmarks.db", overwrite = FALSE)
   myBookmarks <- reactiveValues(urlDF = NULL)
  #
  observeEvent(input$bookmarkBtn, {
    session$doBookmark()
  })
  #
  # if(dbExistsTable(con, "Bookmarks")){
  #   tmpUrlDF <- data.table(dbReadTable(con, "Bookmarks"))
  #   myBookmarks$urlDF <- tmpUrlDF[, Timestamp := as.POSIXct(Timestamp, origin="1970-01-01 00:00")]
  # } else {
  #   myBookmarks$urlDF <- NULL
  # }
  #
  # session$onSessionEnded(function() {
  #   tmpUrlDF <- isolate({myBookmarks$urlDF})
  #   if(!is.null(tmpUrlDF)){
  #     dbWriteTable(con, "Bookmarks", tmpUrlDF, overwrite = TRUE)
  #   }
  #   dbDisconnect(con)
  # })

  setBookmarkExclude(c("bookmarkBtn", "description", "urlTable_cell_clicked", "urlTable_rows_all", "urlTable_rows_current", "urlTable_rows_selected", "urlTable_search", "urlTable_state", "urlTable_row_last_clicked"))

  output$plot <- renderPlot({
    hist(faithful$eruptions[seq_len(input$n)], breaks = 40)
  })

  onBookmarked(fun=function(url){
    if(!url %in% myBookmarks$urlDF){
      if(is.null(myBookmarks$urlDF)){
        myBookmarks$urlDF <- unique(data.table(Description = input$description, URL = paste0("<a href='", url, "'>", url,"</a>"), Timestamp = Sys.time(), Session = session$token), by="URL")
      } else {
        myBookmarks$urlDF <- unique(rbindlist(list(myBookmarks$urlDF, data.table(Description = input$description, URL = paste0("<a href='", url, "'>", url,"</a>"), Timestamp = Sys.time(), Session = session$token))), by="URL")
      }
    }
  })

  output$urlTable = DT::renderDataTable({
    myBookmarks$urlDF
  }, escape=FALSE)

}

enableBookmarking(store = "url")
shinyApp(ui, server)
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