asciimoo/hister
Your own search engine observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
83/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 99
- Longevity 17
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 10
- age_days: 241
- days_rel: 10
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 18
Adoption not part of the score
3072 stars · 136 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Hister is a self-hosted, privacy-focused personal search engine that indexes the full contents of visited web pages and local files. It offers a web interface, terminal client, browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome, and an MCP endpoint for AI assistant integration.
Use cases
- search the full text of pages I've visited
- self-host a private personal search engine
- index my browser history and local files
- find that article I read last month
- connect an AI assistant to my personal search index via MCP
- search my saved documents from the terminal
- build a searchable personal knowledge base
When to choose
- you want full-content search over your browsing history and local files
- you need a privacy-focused, self-hosted index with no telemetry
- you want to query your personal knowledge from web, terminal, or an AI assistant
- you need advanced query features like field filters, phrases, and wildcards
When to avoid
- you need a general-purpose public web search engine
- you want encrypted-at-rest storage out of the box
- you need a managed cloud service with automatic sync
- you cannot run a local server process
Facets
application · maturity active
search-engine web-scraping mcp http-server cli browser-extension self-hosted privacy developer-tools windows self-hosted browser-extension cli go personal-search-engine full-text-indexing browser-history semantic-search local-first knowledge-base tui search linux macos docker
6 sources
- readme: https://github.com/asciimoo/hister · fetched 2026-08-28 · 605f2fce2b42
- homepage: https://hister.org/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5dafc65e0624
- site_page: https://hister.org/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · e33053a44068
- site_page: https://hister.org/docs/quickstart · fetched 2026-08-29 · ce91506ab076
- site_page: https://hister.org/docs/query-language · fetched 2026-08-29 · 76b6b83e69f3
- site_page: https://hister.org/docs/intro · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2be4071af0de
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| asciimoo/hister | main | 83 |
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