Big fan of searx and use it on all of my devices. This will be a welcome addition.

I set hister up for a while, completely forget about it and checked it again after reading this Lemmy post. Well there are now 6.600 pages and 480 MB RAM usage.

Looks like I need to integrate hister more into my web usage. But maybe I need some training. It isn't possible to setup hister as my default search engine in browser with automated fallback to normal Meta-search with whatever engine? And I use login credentials maybe a faster way like passkey possible in the future?

Ver cool!

Very cool! Is there a place to share index DB? Having a pre-fetched index on awesome lists and fmhy would be amazing!

I've been slowly migrating from buku to hister, but it's still early days. I do like þat hister indexes sites, which beats having to manually tag everyþing. So far it's looking pretty good, þough. Þanks for writing it.

Being able to navigate only through the content of my favorites websites, oh my, excellent news. I'm truly eager to try it.

I have a newbie question tho : I would like to use Hister while still supporting the people who create website content. Say I'm online and don't wish to use the local preview, can I access to the website instead of loading my local content ? If I access the website via Hister instead of Searx for instance, would my request be added to their traffic numbers, or not ? (those lowering their referencing and their visibility).

(Not like my individual usage would change anything anyway but still asking to get a graspe of what it implies).

Thank you for the hard work !

Any interested in making this a federated search?

I've been toying with the idea of a web-ring style search engine where it uses the fediverse's post and sub system so that you can subscribe to "indexers" that are made by other users (or even mastodon users themselves) so that you can have highly targeted search engine systems. So, for example, you could make multiple search "scopes" and each of those scopes would follow specific other "sources" and search from them. Likewise, users could provide links and descriptions to add new entries to each scope which would, in essense, work like a fediverse post and then be distributed to all other interested parties.

I haven't done a lick of implementation yet, but thought I'd share the idea here as I consider doing this more and more every day. The only thing I haven't figured out yet is images, because ideally that would be a special type of scope view.

Already installed and loving this idea.

@asciimoo@lemmy.ml please update the title with the appropriate tag (rule 7) and if AI was involved in development, add the disclosure per rule 8 (sample disclosures can be found here)

Thanks!

This seems super cool, you can curate your own search index :O

Being able to preview your search results offline is quite neat too!

One question though, how will you solve the issue of "echo chambers", because from my understanding, it looks like it will only present results that you search for / have searched for, meaning for some people, you could be stuck with results that only support your view of the world.

Asciimoo always with the cool stuff!

Think I'll try getting it setup on Kubernetes and using it for searching documentation when programming.

Would you be interested in getting a Kubernetes example in the docs too then? If you have any requirements for it let me know.

I've been running this for a while since I first heard of it, it's already saved me a few times trying to recall a page for something.

I treat it like a more advanced history and it's great!

Oh damn this could replace the bookmakers. I have Linkding with the Linkding Injector extension, but this would be next level.

You can view the saved text too, nice. Would it be possible to attach an HTML file from like single file for sites that have heavy image content as part of the “view” button? That’d completely replace Linkding/Karakeep/Linkwarden use cases for me

Understandable if not, that’s ancillary to the text search focus

Can i use this in my self hosted environment? the docs talk mainly about running it in the terminal

does it have a docker install? found it https://hister.org/docs/docker

can i connect it to other services like paperless, or would i need to manually import files?

Awesomely cool and federated search would be a boon later! Hope you keep it going!

The name reminds me of this crazy nostradamus “documentary “ that used to play on HBO when I was a kid.

Is there a future where Hister takes on the functions of SearXNG? I.E. new content is discovered through APIs but local or previous content is prioritized?

SearXNG user here. Thanks for your work!

I'm looking forward to checking this out.

Like others have mentioned, a federated version of this seems like it would be really, really powerful.

Very likely a huge thing to ask, but have you considered adding federation to the indexing? I presume that generating and storing the index database would quickly put a severe storage bottleneck (maybe the idea here is that no single person explores the internet enough for their index database to become infeasibly large?). But, at least to me, it sounds like allowing different hister instances to share a common index (or index subsets) would greatly reduce this bottleneck. Just curious if you have any thoughts on this. Overall I love the idea and am looking forward to giving it a try soon, so well done!

Uhh, neat. Will definitely try it out.

This is a great idea, I’m gonna try

I have actually been looking for something like this, look forward to giving it a go!

Interesting, I didn't see it in the documentation so if you didn't document that already, you can have your local instance as search suggestion for Firefox on mobile and desktop. I use it for my own wiki, e.g. https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/@utopiah/116351732150481942

Also how I would imagine it is default search there and if no hit then fallback to a default search engine, e.g. DDG.

This looks really rad. I have been trying to build a leftist search engine using searxng and it has a lot of issue because of things getting blocked over tor due to the amount of background requests you have to be making to those sites. I have thought about building something like this to deal with that issue, but just had my hands full with other projects. Quite obviously (for those who like to come online to shit on really cool project people are building) the use case is people looking to build their own privately indexed search results without it having to get polluted by shit that comes up in other search engines. I feel like that was immediately apparent to me, because I have that use case and I immediately saw the utility here. For those who don't get, just because it doesn't fit the use case you have for internet related projects, doesn't mean it's not extremely useful to others. You literally don't have to come on here just to shit on what other people are doing simply because, "you don't get it." This project looks really cool and I am going to look into replacing my searxng instance with this soon. I am super stoked that somebody has done this work. It has needed to be done for a long time. So thank you!

I don't get it. It indexes pages which were already visited, right? So in order to find some website I need to first use another search engine. Afterwards, that website is in my browsing history and if I need it again, I don't need to search for it. So what's the use case for this project?

this sounds really cool!

How did you come up with the name?

iirc "Hister" is the name of an evil despot used in at least one of Nostradamus' "prophecies" and is often believed (by those who believe in these things) to be a reference to Hitler.

its also an ancient name for the River Danube, which flows through much of WWII's battlefields

Those are some impressive projects - some people are just built different huh