Your Own
Search Engine

Automatic save of visited websites

The browser extension silently captures and indexes every page you visit. Your entire browsing history becomes searchable without any manual effort.

Full-text indexing

Index the actual content of web pages and local files, not just titles and URLs. Find any document by the words it contains.

Semantic search

Find content by meaning, not just keywords. Powered by optional AI embeddings for context-aware, intent-driven results.

Advanced querying

Precision search with field filters, boolean operators, phrase matching, wildcards, and personal query aliases for faster recall.

Result preview

Open a clean, reader-friendly offline preview of any indexed page directly inside Hister, no internet connection required.

Crawler with multiple backends

Index entire websites with the built-in BFS crawler. Supports a standard HTTP backend and real browser backends for JavaScript-heavy pages.

MCP server

Expose your personal search index as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) tool so AI assistants can query your browsing history directly.

Local file indexing

Index and search documents on your filesystem alongside web pages. Directories are watched for changes and the index updates automatically.

Browser history import

Bring your existing Firefox or Chrome browsing history into Hister.

History view

Browse and revisit your past search queries and indexed documents.

User handling

Create multiple accounts with separate indexes, individual API tokens, and per-user content rules. Ideal for shared or team deployments.

Privacy first

Fully self-hosted with no telemetry, no cloud sync, and no third-party services. Your data never leaves your own infrastructure.

Content rules

Define skip rules to block unwanted sites, priority rules to surface important domains, versioning rules to preserve document changes, and query aliases to create custom search shortcuts.

Browser extensions

Extensions available for Chrome and Firefox. Install once and indexing happens automatically in the background as you browse.

Terminal UI

A built-in interactive TUI lets you search directly from the terminal with full keyboard navigation, themes, and configurable hotkeys.