@algolia/recommend

What is @algolia/recommend?

@algolia/recommend is a JavaScript library that provides tools to integrate Algolia's recommendation engine into your application. It allows you to easily implement personalized recommendations, related products, and other recommendation-based features using Algolia's powerful search and recommendation APIs.

What are @algolia/recommend's main functionalities?

Personalized Recommendations

This feature allows you to fetch personalized recommendations for a specific user. By providing the user token and the index name, you can retrieve a list of recommended items tailored to the user's preferences.

const { createRecommendClient } = require('@algolia/recommend');
const recommendClient = createRecommendClient({
  appId: 'YourApplicationID',
  apiKey: 'YourAdminAPIKey'
});

recommendClient.getPersonalizedRecommendations({
  indexName: 'products',
  userToken: 'user-123',
  maxRecommendations: 5
}).then(({ results }) => {
  console.log(results);
});

Related Products

This feature allows you to fetch products related to a specific item. By providing the object ID of the product and the index name, you can retrieve a list of items that are similar or related to the specified product.

const { createRecommendClient } = require('@algolia/recommend');
const recommendClient = createRecommendClient({
  appId: 'YourApplicationID',
  apiKey: 'YourAdminAPIKey'
});

recommendClient.getRelatedProducts({
  indexName: 'products',
  objectID: 'product-123',
  maxRecommendations: 5
}).then(({ results }) => {
  console.log(results);
});

Frequently Bought Together

This feature allows you to fetch items that are frequently bought together with a specific product. By providing the object ID of the product and the index name, you can retrieve a list of items that are commonly purchased along with the specified product.

const { createRecommendClient } = require('@algolia/recommend');
const recommendClient = createRecommendClient({
  appId: 'YourApplicationID',
  apiKey: 'YourAdminAPIKey'
});

recommendClient.getFrequentlyBoughtTogether({
  indexName: 'products',
  objectID: 'product-123',
  maxRecommendations: 5
}).then(({ results }) => {
  console.log(results);
});

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Changelog

5.0.0-alpha.100

• 379fbc501 fix(specs): correct searchSynonyms parameters (#2595) by @morganleroi
• 982fd3ca4 feat(specs): import crawler and usage specs from new world repo (#2598) by @shortcuts
• 9532a0136 feat(specs): AB testing tracked user count (#2596) by @cdhawke
• 2481e3ac8 fix(clients): support the rest of the languages (#2571) by @millotp
• 99ce6dbae fix(clients): monitoring for JavaScript and Python (#2568) by @shortcuts
• 99e4bdf2c feat(specs): add acl permissions to operations (#2555) by @kai687
• 8b0622380 fix(specs): rename clearAllSynonyms to clearSynonyms (#2553) by @kai687