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Hister
Your Own Search Engine
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A private, self-hosted search engine for indexing and searching the pages you visit and files you keep.
Questions at the helm
- How does Hister preserve content?
- Hister stores extracted document content with the search index and displays it as a readable preview alongside search results. The stored preview allows you to see where content came from and get back to the exact idea you remembered without retracing your steps.
- What sources can Hister index?
- Hister can index visited pages through browser extensions, watch local folders, import your browser history, and crawl websites. All these sources feed into the same searchable index.
- What platforms does Hister support?
- Hister runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows. A single binary can run locally, or it can be deployed on shared servers with user-scoped access using SQLite or PostgreSQL.
- How does Hister protect privacy?
- Hister has no telemetry and does not phone home or report what you search. A complete personal setup can run on one local machine. The server has no mandatory cloud service, and clients send indexed content only to the Hister server you configure.
- What search capabilities does Hister offer?
- Hister provides full-text search with field filters, quoted phrases, wildcards, negation, date ranges, and query aliases. It supports searching from the web interface, terminal, CLI, HTTP API, and MCP interfaces.
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Key features
- Browser extension indexing
- Local file watching
- Full-text search with field filters
- Multiple search interfaces
- Stored page previews
- Website crawler
- Content extractors
- Optional semantic search
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