Your own search engine

Hister is a general purpose web search engine providing automatic full-text indexing for visited websites.

• Privacy-focused: Keep your browsing history indexed locally - don't use remote search engines if it isn't necessary
• Full-text indexing: Search through the actual content of web pages you've visited
• Advanced search capabilities: Utilize a powerful query language for precise results
• Local file indexing: Index your local knowledge base
• Crawler: Use a (headless) browser or a traditional crawler to extend your index fast
• Multi-user support: Host it for your local community
• AI enhanced: Enable optional semantic search or connect your agents via MCP

Requirements: latest Go and NPM

• Clone the repository
• Build with ./manage.sh build (or go generate ./...; go build)

To work on the web app with hot reload and automatic Go rebuilds:

npm run serve:app

This starts a Vite dev server (with HMR) and the Go backend (with auto-rebuild via air) concurrently.

Join us on IRCNet: #hister or on Discord

Check the CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.

Bugs or suggestions? Visit the issue tracker.

Security related issue? See our SECURITY.md

AGPLv3 or any later version