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Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

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Post by polymer8563 »

zuzululu wrote: post #3
asciimoo wrote: post #2

Ohi, author here! Thanks for posting Hister. Feel free to A.M.A. My first free software search project was Searx, a privacy respecting metasearch engine, but because of the limitations of the metasearch concept, I've decided to take a different approach. Hister builds a personal search index from pages you visit, bookmarks, browser history, local files, and crawled websites. It stores extracted content with offline r…

interesting you used AGPL 3 licensing, are you planning a hosted version? would've been great with a more liberal license

it would not! asciimoo, thanks for using AGPL, I've been using hister for months now and it helped me a lot

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

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Post by hallole »

ebr4him wrote: post #51

Is the design vibe coded in Codex by any chance? Seeing a lot of similar designs out there and it’s really starting to annoy me.

Really? The website, you mean? :( I thought to myself, "what a cute, well designed webpage!" when I saw it. Maybe with time this site will stand out like those Claudeslop ones.

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

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Post by mirshko »

asciimoo wrote: post #2

Ohi, author here! Thanks for posting Hister. Feel free to A.M.A. My first free software search project was Searx, a privacy respecting metasearch engine, but because of the limitations of the metasearch concept, I've decided to take a different approach. Hister builds a personal search index from pages you visit, bookmarks, browser history, local files, and crawled websites. It stores extracted content with offline r…

Do you plan on adding filterable tags to the ui? Rather than just metadata.

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

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Post by Aboutplants »

wmchen wrote: post #19

I set this up a few months ago based on asciimoo's comments on HN, and barely used it at first, but I realized not too long ago that it could be a pretty useful research tool for one of my hobbies (award travel), that revolves around being in the know around various concepts and quirks. I scraped and imported posts from the blogs I regularly reference for award travel, then hooked it up to OpenCode/Codex as an MCP se…

Oh this gets my brain spinning! Thanks for the tips

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

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Post by vzaliva »

asciimoo wrote: post #2

Ohi, author here! Thanks for posting Hister. Feel free to A.M.A. My first free software search project was Searx, a privacy respecting metasearch engine, but because of the limitations of the metasearch concept, I've decided to take a different approach. Hister builds a personal search index from pages you visit, bookmarks, browser history, local files, and crawled websites. It stores extracted content with offline r…

I was thinking about making a "personal data search engine". I have almost 30GB of email archives and a bunch of Google Drive and offline files. I am thinking about downloading it all from the cloud and storing it on a large RAID array, with an indexing and search interface (and possibly a local MCP server).

Would Hister be suitable for this? Can it index mbox files? Would it handle this amount of data? Does it have a search API so I can build an MCP server?

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

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Post by asciimoo »

vzaliva wrote: post #58
asciimoo wrote: post #2

Ohi, author here! Thanks for posting Hister. Feel free to A.M.A. My first free software search project was Searx, a privacy respecting metasearch engine, but because of the limitations of the metasearch concept, I've decided to take a different approach. Hister builds a personal search index from pages you visit, bookmarks, browser history, local files, and crawled websites. It stores extracted content with offline r…

I was thinking about making a "personal data search engine". I have almost 30GB of email archives and a bunch of Google Drive and offline files. I am thinking about downloading it all from the cloud and storing it on a large RAID array, with an indexing and search interface (and possibly a local MCP server). Would Hister be suitable for this? Can it index mbox files? Would it handle this amount of data? Does it have…

> Would Hister be suitable for this?

The indexer it uses (Bleve) can handle millions of records according to their docs, but sure that Hister would be the best choice for this task. I'd probably use Meilisearch (https://www.meilisearch.com/).

> Can it index mbox files?

Not yet.

> Does it have a search API so I can build an MCP server?

It has both search API and MCP server endpoints.

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