Comment by mircea

14 hours ago

On HN does it capture both the HN post page and the target page?

E.g.: for this submission I would want both https://github.com/asciimoo/hister captured.

The extension captures the content of the opened tabs, it does not create new requests. If you open both, it captures both.

  • You may be the first "search engine" capable of indexing instagram and other closed sites.

    • Oh, I haven't considered the possibility of indexing things like Instagram or Discord with this. I am now much more interested than before

    • 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.