Hister
# 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](https://hister.org/docs/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](https://hister.org/docs) for more details ## [Support](https://hister.org/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](https://github.com/air-verse/air)) concurrently. ## Community Join us on IRCNet: #hister or on [Discord](https://discord.gg/beEyuHxRSs) ## Contributing Check the [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for more information. Bugs or suggestions? Visit the [issue tracker](https://github.com/asciimoo/hister/issues). Security related issue? See our [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md) ## Sponsors [](https://uruky.com/) ## License [AGPLv3](LICENSE) or any later version