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    asciimoo/hister

    Your own search engine

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    mcp
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    AGPL-3.0
    6.2K stars
    278 forks
    6.2K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 28, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 247 days ago, with 61 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #13 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 13, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a privacy-focused personal search engine that indexes and searches your browsing history and local files.
    • Enables full-text and semantic search locally without relying on remote servers, preserving user privacy and control.
    • Use for creating a private, searchable archive of your visited web pages and browsing history.
    • Use for hosting a multi-user local search service for small communities or teams.
    • Use for integrating AI-enhanced semantic search and custom agents via the MCP protocol for advanced query capabilities.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    AGPL 3.0

    Network copyleft: like the GPL, and also triggered by offering the software over a network.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

    Watch-outs

    • AGPL-style copyleft also applies when the software is offered over a network.

    General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score

    From the README

    Hister is a general purpose web search engine providing automatic full-text indexing for visited websites.

    Excerpt from the asciimoo/hister README on GitHub (AGPL-3.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 27: +51Aug 28: +71Aug 29: +78Aug 30: +65Aug 31: +80Sep 1: +108Sep 2: +31Sep 3: +20Sep 4: +17Sep 5: +14Sep 6: +7Sep 7: +14Sep 8: +30Sep 9: +11Sep 10: +22Sep 11: +37Sep 12: +11Sep 13: +10Sep 14: +14Sep 15: +16Sep 16: +5Sep 17: +125Sep 18: +955Sep 19: +315Sep 20: +244Sep 21: +72Sep 22: +50Sep 23: +73Sep 24: +44Sep 25: +42Sep 26: +39Sep 27: +22Sep 28: +21Oct 2: +17Oct 3: +20Oct 4: +13Oct 5: +21Oct 6: +24Oct 7: +12Oct 8: +14Oct 9: +6Oct 10: +9Oct 11: +14Oct 12: +12Oct 13: +13Oct 14: +29Oct 15: +11Oct 16: +20Oct 17: +6

    +4,451 stars over 90 days across 54 snapshot days; best day +955 on Sep 18.

    Forks

    278+189

    Open issues

    60+28

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