DRdroideqa·May 8, 2025
Cool! Reminds me of Falcon[0][1].
[0]: https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon/
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12479977
In Show HN: Extension for full-text browser history searchlengstrom
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lengstrom / falcon
falcon
Chrome extension for full text history search!
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Chrome extension for full text history search!
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I recommend Falcon[0][1], I wish Firefox had an equivalent. It basically does full-text search of any website visited. I discovered it via HN[2]. [0]:…
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
13 sourcesThese two (Chromium-based) seem to stand out :
https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon
https://github.com/crisdosyago/Diskernet
------ Others :
Similar Mac Only ->: https://www.browserparrot.com/
"AI" Powered -> https://heyday.xyz/
Novel Concept -> https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia
Extend your normal History Search (beyond 3 months) -> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/history-trends-unl...
In Ask HN: Search what you've seen on the web beforeThe upstream of the fork, https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon
Neither has been updated in more than a year.
In Falcon: Chrome extension for full text history searchI recommend Falcon[0][1], I wish Firefox had an equivalent. It basically does full-text search of any website visited. I discovered it via HN[2].
[0]: https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon
[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/falcon/mmifbbohghe...
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12479977
In Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?In the issues someone says that it works even in FF. You just need to change the extension of the file. Tho I didn't try it yet.
https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon/issues/73#issuecomment-6...
In A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprintIt seems pretty cool - but I think falcon[0] is more practical. You can install it from the chrome extension store[1], if you are too lazy to get it running yourself.
[0]: https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon
[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/falcon/mmifbbohghe...
In A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprintSeems like the Falcon extension has not gotten any updates in the last year or two:
https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon
In Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing historyFalcon sound like what you're looking for: https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon
In Ten Years of InstapaperCheck this out - seems to do what you want.
https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon
"Chrome extension for flexible full text browsing history search. Every time you visit a website in Chrome, Falcon indexes all the text on the page so that the site can be easily found later."
In Show HN: PageDash, Your Personal Web ArchivePersonally I use the QupZilla browser because private browsing automatically starts separate sessions per-process. Before I throw them all away I collect all the urls in a big text file using Windows UI Automation... it's messy but just barely better than nothing.
Never thought about the following (search vs. bookmarks/history) until the HN discussion last week, though I have always typed in google.com before searching just because browser search money seems like a bad incentive:
There is a reason for that – as a rule, browsers don’t really want you to use history. They want you to search and find things multiple times because search royalties are part of their business model.
A couple of full-text-of-every-page-visited Chrome add-ons textually equivalent to a single-computer version of https://pinboard.in/ $25/yr hosted "archiving and fu
Read the rest
ll-text bookmark search" subscription (unfortunately for me I don't like Google/Chrome/anti-privacy enough to use as my main browser):
https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon "Chrome extension for full text history search"
http://fetching.io/ "your own personal Google -- a search engine for all the web pages you've seen"
https://worldbrain.io/ "Full-Text Search the Pages you Visited and Bookmarked"
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recoll-indexe... "copies the web pages you visit to the Recoll web indexing queue"
Source: Vivaldi browser v1.8 released, with calendar-style browsing history | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13984122 (last week)
Also mentioned: Tree Style Tabs Firefox add-on "shows my tabs in the context I opened them from" | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
GraphiTabs Chrome add-on | https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/graphitabs/dcfclem...
Edit: Added intro w/ my own anecdata.
Another idea: custom browsers per-site-you-use, per HN user megous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13226170
For each use case that is not a free browsing I create an electron app, that never executes any code from the web or uses any external style
There is a chrome extension for that: https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon
In Vivaldi browser v1.8 released, with calendar-style browsing historyChrome extension for full text history search
2 points · Open discussion> you can clone it on your local machine, read through our code to verify that it is not malicious, and then install it
I like that the authors share my concern about installing an extension that would by design record every page I visit. However the repository contains several minified Javascript files [1]. This somewhat contradicts their invitation to read through the code.
[1] https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon/tree/master/extension/js...
In Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search