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Comment · 1 month ago
We have a `yt-dlp` based extractor that can fetch the subtitles/transcripts from the sites `yt-dlp` supports: https://hister.org/docs/extractors#ytdlp
Comment · 1 month ago
I've never experienced/heard similar behavior. Could you open a GitHub issue or join our Discord/IRC to identify the root cause?
Comment · 1 month ago
Exactly, this is the biggest advantage of the extension. It is fully invisible for the websites, so no captcha, anti-bot protection, no authentication issues, every common bottleneck of a classic crawler is solved by the browser/user.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes, that's something I'd like to support. The main missing piece for a user-friendly hosting option such as PikaPods is a configuration UI. At the moment, customizing Hister requires editing a configuration file, which isn't practical for this kind of hosted service.
Comment · 1 month ago
The extension captures the content of the opened tabs, it does not create new requests. If you open both, it captures both.
Comment · 1 month ago
This is a great suggestion, thanks! I'll definitely add it to the list of candidates. My plan is to do a vote on our social platforms if we have a few decent candidates.
Comment · 1 month ago
The default interface is web based: https://demo.hister.org/
Notes are not supported yet, only labels. But it is a useful addition, added to my TODO.
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
The main difference I see is Hister focuses on creating an active knowledge base and finding information quickly, while ArchiveBox focuses on preserving web content for the long term.
Comment · 1 month ago
Sure, as long as you (and the browser extension) can reach the server, it can be used from as many machines as you want even in a multi-user setup.
Comment · 1 month ago
Unfortunately, it is still considered too similar from a legal standpoint.
Comment · 1 month ago
Ohi, author here! Thanks for posting Hister. Feel free to A.M.A.
My first free software search project was Searx, a privacy respecting metasearch engine, but because of the limitations of the metasearch concept, I've decided to take a different approach.
Hister builds a personal search index from pages you visit, bookmarks, browser history, local files, and crawled websites. It stores extracted content with offline result previews, so information remains searchable even when the original page changes or disappears. It supports full text and semantic search, can run entirely on your own machine, and includes a web interface, command line tools, and an MCP endpoint for assistant integrations.
Website: https://hister.org/
Tiny read-only demo: https://demo.hister.org/
Ps.: It looks like our name conflicts with a registered trademark in the US. The owner of the other project has asked us to change it, so we’ll probably need to comply sooner or later.
Name suggestions are welcome! Ideally, the new name should be relatively short, sound good, and have an available .org domain.
Thanks!
Comment · 2 months ago
The name is coming from "HISTory on STERoids". When I checked the name, I found only a beetle and part of the Danube called "Hister".
Comment · 2 months ago
The extracted content is stored and displayed as HTML, so converting it to markdown doesn't guarantee lossless transformation. But, the other direction works well: Hister can live track and import markdown files providing full text search and rendered previews for all your files.
Comment · 2 months ago
EDIT: I wanted to write "*not* sure" in the previous message.