Hister

Your own search engine

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

Features

• 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

Check out our Documentation for more details

Support the development

Development

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.

Community

Join us on IRCNet: #hister or on Discord

Contributing

Check the CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.

Bugs or suggestions? Visit the issue tracker.

Security related issue? See our SECURITY.md

Sponsors

License

AGPLv3 or any later version