Hister: self-hosted search engine for webpages and files with offline result preview

2 months ago by asciimoo to c/privacy

Your own search engine. Contribute to asciimoo/hister development by creating an account on GitHub.

I'm working on a self-hosted search service called Hister with the goal to reduce my dependence on online search engines.

Hister is a full text indexer for websites which saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. It provides a flexible web (and terminal) search interface & query language to explore previously visited content with ease or quickly fall back to traditional search engines.

I've been using it for a few months and as my local index is growing I can avoid opening google/duckduckgo/kagi more and more frequently.

The project is still heavily under development with a growing community, but the current version is in a fairly usable state in my opinion, so I wanted to share it here - perhaps some of you find it useful as well. (Or at least have some constructive criticism =])

The code is AGPLv3 licensed, available at https://github.com/asciimoo/hister website: https://hister.org/ read-only demo: https://demo.hister.org/

About me: I develop privacy protecting and data liberating free software since 2008. I'm the author of Searx, Colly (https://github.com/gocolly/colly) and many more smaller free software/self-hosted projects (https://github.com/asciimoo).

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yelling_at_cloud 3 points 2 months ago

I have actually been looking for something like this, look forward to giving it a go!

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