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Repository: asciimoo/hister Stars: 2686 Forks: 121 Primary language: Go Discovery sources: awesome:awesome-selfhosted, trending:daily Selection score: 77.16 Usefulness score: 9.7 Source confidence score: 6.8 Languages: Go, Svelte, TypeScript, Shell, CSS, Nix Topics: browser-history, go, golang, history, index, mcp, mcp-server, personal-search, personal-search-engine, privacy Summary: Your own search engine 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](https://demo.hister.org/) · [Download Hister](https://github.com/asciimoo/hister/releases/latest) · [Read the quickstart](https://hister.org/docs/quickstart) · [Documentation](https://hister.org/docs) ![Hister web interface](webui/website/src/lib/assets/screenshot.png) ## Quickstart 1. Download the binary for your platform from the [latest release](https://github.com/asciimoo/hister/releases/latest), then rename it to `hister` (`hister.exe` on Windows). 2. On Linux or macOS, make it executable: ```bash chmod +x hister ``` 3. Start Hister on Linux or macOS: ```bash ./hister listen ``` On Windows, run `.\hister.exe listen` in PowerShell. 4. Open <http://127.0.0.1:4433> and install the browser extension for [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hister/) or [Chrome](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hister/cciilamhchpmbdnniabclekddabkifhb). No configuration is required for a local personal setup. See the [complete quickstart](https://hister.org/docs/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 brows

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