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algoliasearch
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A fully-featured and blazing-fast JavaScript API client to interact with Algolia API.
The algoliasearch npm package is a JavaScript client for Algolia, a hosted search API that provides a fast and accurate search experience for websites and mobile applications. The package allows developers to integrate Algolia's search capabilities into their JavaScript applications, enabling features such as full-text search, faceting, filtering, and geolocation queries.
Search
Perform a search query on an Algolia index and retrieve the results.
const algoliasearch = require('algoliasearch');
const client = algoliasearch('YourApplicationID', 'YourAdminAPIKey');
const index = client.initIndex('your_index_name');
index.search('query string').then(({ hits }) => {
console.log(hits);
});
Indexing
Add or update a record in an Algolia index.
const algoliasearch = require('algoliasearch');
const client = algoliasearch('YourApplicationID', 'YourAdminAPIKey');
const index = client.initIndex('your_index_name');
index.saveObject({ objectID: '1', name: 'Foo' }).then(() => {
console.log('Object indexed');
});
Configure Index Settings
Configure settings of an Algolia index to define ranking, attributes for faceting, etc.
const algoliasearch = require('algoliasearch');
const client = algoliasearch('YourApplicationID', 'YourAdminAPIKey');
const index = client.initIndex('your_index_name');
index.setSettings({
searchableAttributes: ['name', 'description'],
customRanking: ['desc(popularity)']
}).then(() => {
console.log('Settings updated');
});
Manage Indices
List all indices in your Algolia application and manage them.
const algoliasearch = require('algoliasearch');
const client = algoliasearch('YourApplicationID', 'YourAdminAPIKey');
client.listIndices().then(({ items }) => {
console.log(items);
});
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of solving a growing number of use cases. The elasticsearch npm package is the official Elasticsearch client for Node.js. It provides similar search capabilities but is typically self-hosted, unlike Algolia which is a managed service.
Solr-node is a client library for interacting with Apache Solr, which is an open-source search platform. Similar to Algolia, it provides full-text search, but it requires self-hosting and manual scaling, whereas Algolia offers a fully managed service.
Typesense is an open-source, typo-tolerant search engine that provides a similar developer experience to Algolia. The typesense npm package allows you to integrate Typesense into your JavaScript applications. It is designed to be easy to use and deploy, offering an alternative to Algolia with a focus on simplicity and speed.
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To get started, you first need to install algoliasearch (or any other available API client package).
All of our clients comes with type definition, and are available for both browser and node environments.
yarn add algoliasearch
# or
npm install algoliasearch
Without a package manager
Add the following JavaScript snippet to the of your website:
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/algoliasearch/dist/algoliasearch.umd.min.js"></script>
You can now import the Algolia API client in your project and play with it.
import { algoliasearch } from 'algoliasearch';
const client = algoliasearch('YOUR_APP_ID', 'YOUR_API_KEY');
// or with the lite client
import { liteClient } from 'algoliasearch/lite';
const client = liteClient('YOUR_APP_ID', 'YOUR_API_KEY');
For full documentation, visit the Algolia JavaScript API Client.
Encountering an issue? Before reaching out to support, we recommend heading to our FAQ where you will find answers for the most common issues and gotchas with the client. You can also open a GitHub issue
The Algolia JavaScript API Client is an open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.
FAQs
A fully-featured and blazing-fast JavaScript API client to interact with Algolia API.
The npm package algoliasearch receives a total of 1,664,751 weekly downloads. As such, algoliasearch popularity was classified as popular.
We found that algoliasearch demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 10 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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