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

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Post by idontneedcoffee »

genxy wrote: post #49
asciimoo wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly! I had the very same issues before Hister. > One question if ya don't mind, while I explore: any chance of singlefile support? Yes, partially. Hister can already import HTML files created by SingleFile, but there is no direct integration yet. In the longer term, I would like the SingleFile extension to be able to send snapshots directly to Hister.

I came here to mention https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/singlefile , I couldn't get it to do what I want so I built my own, for watched domains it pushes a copy of the serialized DOM to a local search database. For structured data, either extract and enrich in the browser or enrich on the server side. Would Hister support this basic workflow? I'd love to retire my own software. The next phase was going to move to a…

Singlefile based web pack+download is exactly the next feature I need besides indexing URLs / browser tabs with[0], have it on my to-research for a looong time. I do have a server-side script that can be triggered on doc ingestion as a hook "if data/schema/tab is indexed and path is /ml/* then run script "fetch-url.sh" and file the result into {{doc.path}}" but being able to do that in-browser is more user-friendly.

[0] https://github.com/canvas-ui/canvas/tree/main/apps/browser-e...

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

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Post by stavros »

asciimoo wrote: post #7
zuzululu wrote: post #3

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

> are you planning a hosted version Not in the near term. Right now I am focused on developing Hister rather than operating a hosted service. There are already plenty of centralized hosted search engines, so my longer term interest is in federation and distributed search. I want to make the core system mature first. > would've been great with a more liberal license It depends on how do you define liberal. =] I chose…

I agree with AGPLv3, I don't really understand why people have an objection. All it prevents is someone taking your work and making a business out of it.

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

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Post by stavros »

mirshko wrote: post #56
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.

If I understand what you mean correctly, https://historio.us does that.

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

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Post by asciimoo »

MasterYoda wrote: post #61
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…

This sounds very interesting. Wanted something similar, so going to check it out:) One thing at first look, like a little feature request ;). Personally I think it would be very nice if it was possible to index different sites to different search indexs. So you could separate different stuff, like job, different projects you have, and other stuff and then last everything else etc to there on search index db. So it wo…

You can create multiple users for different use-cases. Also, it is possible to automatically assign labels to documents coming from different sources and use these labels to filter results. E.g. using multiple browser profiles where different profiles apply different labels to submitted documents.

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

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Post by nairboon »

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

Can you give an example of a reasonable thing that you want to do with the Hister source code that the AGPL currently prevents you to do?

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

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Post by alchemist1e9 »

asciimoo wrote: post #28
iambateman wrote: post #25

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Very cool. Does it work to connect my phone and laptop to the same firehose? I often find myself irritated because I read an article on my phone 6 months ago and the history is gone.

You can host Hister on a home server and access it from multiple devices. Automatic page capture on mobile currently requires Firefox, since mobile Chrome does not support browser extensions.

Orion browser hopefully can run the Firefox extension on iOS.

Then joining the mobile device to tailscale network where Hister is hosted on a server on a host in the network … probably this will work at least that is my plan to try.

Thank you for an amazing project. I’m a heavy msgvault user and adding Hister to my browsing will be hugely complementary.

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