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  "path": "/t/hister-a-free-self-hosted-personal-search-engine/37668#post_1",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-06T07:33:23.000Z",
  "site": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net",
  "tags": [
    "Hister",
    "privacy",
    "Website",
    "Small read-only demo",
    "GitHub",
    "Codeberg",
    "Discord",
    "GitHub - gocolly/colly: Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang · GitHub",
    "asciimoo (Adam Tauber) · GitHub"
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  "textContent": "I’m working on a self-hosted search service called Hister with the goal to reduce dependence on online search engines. It can provide significantly more privacy than metasearch engines like Searx.\n\nHister is a full text indexer for websites and local files which automatically saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. It has a flexible web (and terminal) search interface, offline result previews & query language to explore saved content with ease or quickly fall back to traditional search engines.\n\nI’ve been using it for a few months and as my local index is growing I can avoid opening google/duckduckgo/kagi more and more frequently.\n\nThe initial perception is overwhelmingly positive with already more than 25 contributors and hundreds of contributions - perhaps you find it useful as well. (Or at least have some constructive criticism =]) I hope more users and contributors join us to make Hister better and better.\n\nFew useful links:\n\n  * Website\n  * Small read-only demo\n  * GitHub (AGPLv3)\n  * Codeberg\n  * Discord\n  * `#hister` on IRCNet\n\n\n\nAbout me: I develop privacy protecting and data liberating free software since 2008. I’m the author of Searx, Colly (GitHub - gocolly/colly: Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang · GitHub) and many more smaller free software/self-hosted projects ( asciimoo (Adam Tauber) · GitHub ).",
  "title": "Hister: A free & self-hosted personal search engine"
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