I tried this out this week and liked it but really wish this project had some form of auth. Opening the contents of every page you’ve ever visited, even to the local network, is not the best idea.
I've set it up today with OIDC AuthN (Keycloak), removed the username/password fields & kept only OIDC, it's working flawless.
Also indexed data is persisted on a per-user basis, so you got this isolation and certainty that your searches will not be polluted by your family's
Hister supports token based, password based, and OIDC/OAuth authentications with optional multi-user handling. Details about user handling can be found here: https://hister.org/docs/user-handling
It also has a "public mode" where anyone can search the indexed content, but only authenticated users can add or modify it.