Hister

“The upside is that it caches website contents via browser plugin, which is a nice workaround for bot blocking.”

“Once I removed the proxy config for Hister from the service, the issue never happened again.”

“Hister, though, kept breaking my whole reverse proxy”

“it would hog the whole server and everything else proxied by Nginx would become unreachable”

“i can't write an extractor for Reuters and then point a config to it from my current hister binary?”

“I'd love to re-try a simpler version of that project that builds on Hister as a backend actually.”

“It is fully invisible for the websites, so no captcha, anti-bot protection, no authentication issues”

“This is amazing and something I'd like to integrate with my personal AI assistant.”

“Looks like you can even set authentication up so you can run it at home but connect while you're away too”

“it solves the dreaded hunting through the last month of browser history”

“I have only had to rely on it a few times, but each time I did it worked beautifully.”

“It is useful for sure, but I think it will really shine once I've been using it long enough”

“The closest thing I see is the "hister import file" command, which is great, but inconvenient.”

“I would seriously consider giving Hister a try because it seems like a better fit.”

“the other direction works well: Hister can live track and import markdown files providing full text search and rendered previews”

“It’s always been bizarre to me how bad browsers themselves are at searching their own history.”

“This is so cool! For the time being I’m still locked into notion for my handwritten knowledge base, but I love this for incorporating external information.”

“I'm glad this came up again because the last time is was posted I never got around to installing it on my Unraid.”

“This sounds very interesting. Wanted something similar, so going to check it out”

“i still think it could've benefited by Apache 2.0 which more or less gets you to your goals”

“I also experienced some data loss during the import because I was running a concurrent reindex.”

“I LOVE the concept. I will play around with the execution, if it works as described this is a great product.”

“it ticks a lot of important boxes for me and it's pleasantly straightforward”

“Hister provides almost all the tools out of the box to start a search engine against it.”

“would've been great with a more liberal license”

“It stores extracted content with offline result previews, so information remains searchable even when the original page changes or disappears.”

“the browser bookmark ingestion expects the binary to be local, instead of on a server/vm”

“Hister has a built in crawler with standard HTTP lib and browser based backends, you can feed your link collection to it.”

“I'm using it for 6-7 months and my index size is below 1GB with almost 10k pages.”

“intercepting HTTPS traffic requires a MiTM proxy which is much more painful to setup than installing a browser extension”

“I love your idea and wondered why saving and indexing browser visited pages was not being done.”

“its biggest strength is automatically indexing browser tabs as those are rendered”

“Storing full page content allows serving offline result previews and the full page content via MCP.”

“I can avoid opening google/duckduckgo/kagi - and even websites listed in results - more and more frequently.”

“It can provide a privacy-respecting search experience for serving "recall" type searches”

“Hister [1] is also an amazing option for people looking to have their own "local" index! And it's FOSS!”

“Hister provides an MCP interface so you can easily integrate it to your RAG setup.”

“when we have solutions like hister and yacy that is so privacy conscious”

“as my local index is growing I can avoid relying on external search engines”

“i love this and have been a long time complainer that browsers dont automatically operate this way”