Show HN: Full-Text Search the Browser History Using SQLite and WASM

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This project came about because I wanted to search over things like HN comments in my browsing history. First attempts were via CLI tools, which required making a request to fetch HTML. This doesn't always work and correlated with an increase in CloudFlare captchas from my IP.

Thus this project: Create a full text index of web pages as you visit them. Works with plain HTML as well as JS-heavy pages.

Mentioned earlier in another thread [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38624807

Will there be a firefox compatible verson ? I have been looking for a full text search history extension and what you developed is exactly what i am looking for but i use firefox and checking github there is a link for chrome only.

yup, it's on the todo list.

I started building this with cross-browser in mind, and later stopped using the generic web extension APIs to get everything working. getting this working with manifest v3 was a pain, but doable. now that it works it could be made cross-browser again.

Very cool. I hope you build it for Safari, but understand if you’re not able.

For that I would recommend Orion, since it uses the same underlying engine as Safari but can run Chrome plugins.

A Safari-native extension would be interesting if it could also be used on mobile, although I haven't looked into how that might work.

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