{"repo":"asciimoo/hister","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/asciimoo/hister","clone":"git clone https://github.com/asciimoo/hister.git","description":"Your own search engine","language":"Go","stars":1899,"topics":["go","golang","history","index","search","search-engine","web","mcp","mcp-server","privacy"],"license":"AGPL-3.0","category":"mcp-servers","readme_excerpt":"Hister 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 Quickstart 1. Download the binary for your platform from the latest release, then rename it to hister ( hister.exe on Windows). 2. On Linux or macOS, make it executable: 3. Start Hister on Linux or macOS: On Windows, run .\\hister.exe listen in PowerShell. 4. Open and install the browser extension for Firefox or Chrome. No configuration is required for a local personal setup. See the complete quickstart to import existing browser history and choose what Hister indexes. Features - Privacy focused : No telemetry or mandatory cloud service. Run Hister locally or on infrastructure you control. - Full text indexing : Search the actual contents of visited pages and local files, not only titles and URLs. - Automatic browser indexing : Save newly visited pages with the Firefox or Chrome extension. - Powerful queries : Use field filters, phrases, wildcards, negation, aliases, and result priorities. - Optional semantic search : Find documents by meaning through an embeddings endpoint you configure. - Crawler and browser import : Index websites or bring in existing browser history. - Web, terminal, and MCP clients : Search from the browser, TUI, command line, or an AI ass","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/asciimoo","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/asciimoo/hister/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}