Comment by qznc
10 hours ago
My coding agent uses the hister cli, i.e. a local index. That often requires me to seed it manually as a downside. The upside is that it caches website contents via browser plugin, which is a nice workaround for bot blocking.
Thanks asciimoo for https://github.com/asciimoo/hister
> caches website contents via browser plugin
does it? I am running it but was under the impression that it did not cache the content I am viewing, unlike SinglePage.
Why do you have to seed the pages manually?
The original request via the MCP is somehow blocked?
Something on my todo-soon list is to figure out how to import the devdocs.io doc bundles into hister.
What do you mean by seeding it manually? Like do you programmatically "browse" to bolster your hister index? Asking because I started using hister a month or so ago and have been really liking it, and I'm curious how others are using it.
Yes, I browse around, open a dozen tabs so they get indexed, and close them without reading. Then a coding agent is pretty good in composing a report from that index. Generated these recently: https://qznc.github.io/sloppy_research/en/
Hister tells me my index is currently 39208 pages.