Algolia Search

mistermochi

Darkle

Thank you for the tip!!

I have just tested Algolia integration. just a few clicks and got it up and running like magic.

Hari

Darkle thanks for the tip

mistermochi could you share installation process and few screenshots? Or if possible your forum URL just want to test

mistermochi

Hari

Installation is pretty simple.

You need to start with registering an account in Algolia.com and obtain the algolia ID and algolia secret for your project.

Then download and install the extension composer require clarkwinkelmann/flarum-ext-scout

Enable the extension in your admin panel and setup with selecting "algolia" and input the ID and secret.

Finally in your server terminal, run php flarum scout:import-all

Your search function will now automagically be routed through Algolia!

Now go to your algolia dashboard and mess with the settings to your liking.

Hari

mistermochi thanks for sharing the installation steps

clarkwinkelmann We want algolia search feature because we have multiple subdomains and subdirectories with different technologies (flarum, wordpress). We thought of building one single centralized search page like CF search I think if we use algolia it would be an easy approach if you have any other suggestions do suggest.

clarkwinkelmann

I'm glad some of you already found out about my Scout extension. I have now created an official discussion for the extension so feel free to report any issue or feedback over there https://discuss.flarum.org/d/30874-scout-search

The extension is still very much experimental and I have personally not tested it with Algolia yet, but since Scout drivers are interchangeable I don't expect any trouble with Algolia if Meilisearch works.

The README didn't say it previously, but after the initial import, the index is automatically kept in sync. There could be some performance issues in some situations because Scout syncs the index every time an Eloquent model's save method is called, and there are situations where Flarum saves a lot of changes to columns that aren't relevant to the index, but therefore still cause an index update. It might be worst with Algolia since the search server is in the cloud and not local like Meilisearch.

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