asciimoo/hister
Your own search engine
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Your own search engine Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. It indexes their full contents so you can find information again from the web interface, terminal, or an AI assistant connected through MCP. Try the demo · Download Hister · Read the quickstart · Documentation · Support the development On Windows, run .\hister.exe listen in PowerShell. Keep this terminal open while using Hister. The server must be running to index pages and search them. No configuration is required for a local personal setup. See the complete quickstart to choose what Hister indexes. To search existing content, import browser history, import browser bookmarks, index local directories, or import files. Alternative installation methods include Homebrew (brew install hister), Docker, and Nix. See the installation guide for instructions. By default, Hister has no telemetry and no cloud sync. The browser extension sends indexed…
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What this repository does
Your own search engine
Repository facts
- Owner
- asciimoo
- Primary language
- Go
- Stars
- 5,313
- Forks
- 222
- Open issues + pull requests
- 65
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2026-01-04T10:25:21.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-18T12:36:05.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: browser-history, go, golang, history, index, mcp, mcp-server, personal-search, personal-search-engine, privacy, search, search-engine, semantic-search, web
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