hister

Hister

Web history on steroids

Hister is a web history management tool that provides blazing fast, content-based search for visited websites. Unlike traditional browser history that only searches URLs and titles, Hister indexes the full content of web pages you visit.

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 for precise results
• Efficient retrieval: Use keyword aliases to quickly find content
• Flexible content management: Configure blacklist and priority rules for better control

Setup & run

Install the extension

Available for Chrome and Firefox

Download pre-built binary

• Stable: Grab a versioned binary from the releases page.
• Latest (HEAD): Get the absolute latest build from our Rolling Release.

Choose the binary for your architecture (e.g., hister_linux_amd64), make it executable (chmod +x hister_linux_amd64), and run it.

Execute ./hister to see all available commands.

Build for yourself

NPM is required

• Clone the repository
• Build with ./manage.sh build (or go generate ./...; go build)
• Run ./hister help to list the available commands
• Execute ./hister listen to start the web application

Development

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) concurrently.

Use pre-built Docker container

Configuration

Settings can be configured in ~/.config/hister/config.yml config file - don't forget to restart webapp after updating.

TUI-specific settings are stored in a separate ~/.config/hister/tui.yaml file that is automatically created when you first run hister search.

Execute ./hister create-config config.yml to generate a configuration file with the default configuration values.

Check out our Documentation for more details

Community

Join us on IRCNet: #hister or on Discord

Bugs

Bugs or suggestions? Visit the issue tracker.

License

AGPLv3