Matrix bot to source links and search in-chat

[gotlougit]

Hello, I created a small Matrix bot you can invite into groups that will index any links shared on the group, and allow people to search for them as well with a /search, all powered by Hister. The bot will take care of scraping content out of the webpages and send them over to Hister using the REST APIs. Disclaimer: I vibecoded this as an experiment and got it working in around 2 hours, so there might be some issues I am unaware of, so I'd recommend self-hosting this.

Link: https://github.com/gotlougit/hister-matrix-bot
Blogpost: https://gotlou.com/search-engine-bot.html

[asciimoo]

Great! I'd like to create a "related projects" page in the documentation. Would you mind if I'd reference your project?

Also, thank you for being honest about using AI.

[gotlougit]

Yeah go ahead.

No issue, this was just quick experiment anyways, more "quick shell script to automate a task" than fully-fledged side project.