Memex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsing history and bookmarks

Re:Memex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsin... by disqard on Monday October 21, 2019 @01:28AM (#21309556)

This is definitely a step in the right direction! Ideally, I’d like to have something that I can set up on my phone and desktop(s), so I can have an aggregate search over all the things I visited, and on whatever device. Is there a way (architecturally) to make that happen, without having to rely on (say) using one browser on every device?

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Re:Memex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsin... by kick on Monday October 21, 2019 @01:35AM (#21309578)

Memex is a WebExtension, so it works on all browsers that support that API, which is most of them.

But there are many ways you can do that architecturally.

Here's one off the top of my head that might work:

1. Set up a DNS server on a home server.

2. Run a cron job to automatically wget every URL checked by the DNS server.

3. Set all of your devices to your DNS server.

4. Set up a local installation of one of the thousands of open source search engines and set it to go through all of your pages once an hour.

5. Enjoy.

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Re:Memex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsin... by pythux on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:41AM (#21309824)

Doesn’t DNS server only see the hostname instead of the URL? The approach would allow to only scrap home pages then I guess. Also, what about pages behind login?

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Re:Memex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsin... by kick on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:54AM (#21309883)

Correct for the first two, I hadn't thought about that. Could be done by uploading history once every hour but that's annoying. Pages behind a login aren't ideal for this under any approach because they tend to be dynamic.

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Re:Memex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsin... by emiliobool on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:40AM (#21309820)

you can only get domains out of DNS though not URLs

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Re:Memex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsin... by BlackForestBoy on Monday October 21, 2019 @08:08AM (#21311277)

Oliver here, from the Memex team.

Memex is not able to do cross-browser/device yet, but we are short before releasing our mobile apps for iOS and Android, as well as syncing between devices. Both the extension and mobile app will be offline first and sync happens with an end2end encryption via a relay server that deletes update message after every device has been picking it up.

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