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Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep

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Summary

Hister is an open‑source self‑hosted search engine that indexes the full text of visited web pages and local files, offering both keyword and optional semantic search via a web UI, CLI, TUI, and MCP client. It runs locally with no telemetry and can be installed via binary, Homebrew, Docker, or Nix.

  • Install the binary (or via Homebrew/Docker/Nix) and run `hister listen` to start the local server.
  • Browser extensions automatically capture visited pages; you can also import browser history or index local directories/files.
  • Supports full‑text queries with field filters, phrases, wildcards, negation, and optional semantic search via a configurable embeddings endpoint.
  • Provides multiple clients: web UI, terminal UI, command‑line, and MCP integration, with multi‑user isolation on shared servers.

Engineers who want a private, self‑hosted search over their browsing history and local files without sending data to third‑party services.

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