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Algolia is a platform for building powerful end-to-end search and discovery solutions.

Algolia documentation

A short, step-by-step guide to learn Algolia basics.

Algolia Launchpad

Get Started with Launchpad

Create your first index and add records to make searchable in the next steps.

Import Your Data

Imorting Data

Build your search interface using the data you recently pushed to your Algolia index.

Design Your Results

Allow your users to search through your data based on the attributes you define here.

Add Searchable Attributes

Adding Searchable Attributes

Determine how your search results should be ranked based on index attributes and objectives.

Configure Relevancy

Configuring Search Relevancy

Create your search interface leveraging Algolia InstantSearch library.

Implement Search UI

Implement Search

Learn what Algolia's search API offers: speed, relevance, search, navigation, product and content discovery, and analytics.

What is Algolia?

NeuralSearch combines the precision of keyword matching with the deep understanding of natural language and contextual relevance provided by AI-based vector search.

NeuralSearch

Learn about the building blocks of Algolia's search engine, what Algolia offers, and the full ecosystem it provides.

How Algolia works

An overview of Algolia's ecosystem. API clients, UI libraries, integrations, the dashboard, and more.

Algolia's ecosystem

Learn how you can elevate your search and discovery experience with Algolia's out-of-the-box features.

Algolia's features

Whether you're a developer or a business user, you can try Algolia's Search and Discovery products for yourself.

Quick start

Learn how to manage your indices and relevance configuration with the Algolia dashboard.

Get started with the dashboard

Learn how to monitor your Algolia usage and performance on the dashboard.

Track usage and performance in the dashboard

Terms used at Algolia and their definitions.

Algolia glossary

Unlock Algolia's most powerful features by collecting user events with the Insights API.

Get started

Get started with click and conversion events

Learn about the different events you can collect with the Algolia Insights API and the features they unlock.

Event types

Learn how to identify users with pseudonymous user tokens for all click and conversion events.

User token

Collect the correct user events for your application.

Plan your implementation

Pass query IDs as URL parameters to product detail pages to track conversion events related to search.

Track query IDs

Keep track of query IDs

Validate your click and conversion tracking implementation and make sure you get the most value.

Validate events

Validate your events

Collect user interactions as events in your ecommerce store.

Send ecommerce events

Send ecommerce events with an API client

Collect user interactions as events on your media website.

Send media events

Send media events with an API client

Collect user interactions as events on your website.

Send events

Send generic events with an API client

Send ecommerce events with InstantSearch

Send media events with InstantSearch

Send generic events with InstantSearch

Send click, conversion, and view events to the Algolia Insights API with Google Tag Manager.

Google Tag Manager

Import analytics events from Google Analytics

GA4 BigQuery export

Google Analytics BigQuery export

Send events to the Algolia Insights API with Segment.

Segment

Send events to the Algolia Insights API with Tealium.

Tealium

How to format and structure your attributes and records to improve search results with Algolia.

Prepare your records for indexing

How to send your data to Algolia, batch large datasets, synchronize with incremental updates and atomic reindexing, or handle concurrency.

Send and update your data

Set up different Algolia applications for your production, testing, or other environments.

Manage your Algolia applications

Learn about combining, consolidating, aggregating, deduplicating records using Algolia's Distinct feature.

Grouping results

Learn how to sort by an attribute using replicas.

Sorting results

Algolia uses facets for categorizing and grouping your data. Users can use facets to refine their search.

Faceting

How does filtering work with Algolia? Learn how Algolia enables filtered searches.

Filtering

Geo searching is a way to search around a specific location or area and rank results based on their distance.

Geo location

Troubleshoot your search experience by determining search parameters and reproducing them on the Algolia dashboard.

Troubleshooting search

Troubleshooting relevance: debugging, getting ranking info, using the dashboard.

Troubleshooting relevance

Learn about how Algolia ranks, using its tie-breaking algorithm, and how you can control that ranking with Custom Ranking.

Custom ranking

How to decide which searchable attributes you want to use.

Searchable attributes

Merchandise search results, facets, and category pages with Algolia. Apply Rules to influence the ranking of individual records or whole categories.

Merchandising

Use Rules to detect user intent by looking at the keywords they use in their queries.

Detecting intent

How to use Algolia's Rules feature to create flexible and dynamic search results.

Rules overview

Learn how Algolia supports the different languages from all over the world.

Handling natural languages

How to ensure that your users always get results.

Empty or insufficient results

Override engine defaults in rare or complex situations.

Override engine defaults

How Algolia handles typos, typing mistakes, and spelling errors.

Typo tolerance

Synonyms tell Algolia which words and expressions to consider equal.

Synonyms

Relevancy from a high-level point of view - finding records, ranking, tie-breaking, typos, and other settings.

Relevance overview

Learn how you can use Algolia Recommend to display recommendations on your site or app.

Algolia Recommend

The Recommend widgets are part of InstantSearch.js.
Learn how you can upgrade from Recommend JS.

Recommend JS

Upgrade from Recommend JS to InstantSearch.js

The Recommend widgets are part of React InstantSearch.
Learn how you can upgrade from Recommend React.

Recommend React

Upgrade from Recommend React to React InstantSearch

Learn how you can upload historical user events to Algolia Recommend to get started quicker.

Upload events from a CSV file

Set up Recommend

Set up Algolia Recommend

Learn how to retrieve related items based on images with Recommend's Looking Similar model.

Get image-based recommendations with Looking Similar

Learn how Recommend rules let you refine and curate your recommendations.

Recommend rules

Learn how to remove variants from your recommendations by using Recommend deduplication.

Deduplicate recommendations

Use AI to automate finding the best synonyms for your search.

Dynamic Synonym Suggestions

Predict the categories to which a search query belongs with AI.

Query Categorization

Dynamic Re-Ranking automatically adjusts your ranking based on user trends.

Dynamic Re-Ranking

Learn how to use Dynamic Re-Ranking to re-rank and promote popular products on category pages.

Add Dynamic Re-Ranking to category pages

Overview

Index your content with the Algolia Crawler.

Get started with the Crawler

Get started using Algolia for your Shopify or Shopify Plus store.

Quickstart

How to configure Algolia inside your Shopify site.

Configuration

Learn how to migrate our third-party libraries from jsDelivr CDN to Shopify Assets Management.

Migrate third-party libraries

Learn how indexing works with the Algolia AI Search & Discovery app for Shopify.

Introduction to Shopify indexing

Understand the schema Algolia uses to index your Shopify data.

Index schema

Named tags are an alternative to Shopify's metafields in the Algolia AI Search & Discovery app.

Named tags

Metafields

Index product quantities by Shopify location.

Inventory location indexing

Algolia supports Shopify Markets for international ecommerce.

Shopify Markets indexing

Configuration settings for Algolia are stored in metafields.

Shopify Algolia configuration

You have two main approaches to building a search UI for your Shopify store.

Frontend choices

Replace the default Shopify search box with an Algolia Autocomplete menu that updates results as-you-type.

Autocomplete menu

Implement full search results page in your Shopify app with Algolia InstantSearch.

InstantSearch

Implement product recommendations in your Shopify app with Algolia Recommend.

Recommend

Send click and conversion events to increase discovery and conversions.

Click and conversion events

Custom frontend hooks let you modify the autocomplete menu and search results page in the Algolia app for Shopify.

Custom hook events

The global events emitted by the InstantSearch and Autocomplete libraries.

Shopify Algolia global events

Enable InstantSearch on your Shopify collection pages.

Collection search page

Customize individual collection pages in Shopify with the Algolia AI Search & Discovery app.

Collection customization

Add Query Suggestions to the Autocomplete search in your Shopify app.

Add Query Suggestions to Autocomplete

Add custom plugin to the Autocomplete search in your Shopify app.

Add custom plugin to Autocomplete

Update the facet configuration for refinementList widgets in your Shopify app to enhance the user experience.

Update the facet configuration in InstantSearch

Explanation of frequent issues in Shopify or Shopify Plus implementations.

Frequent issues

Customize how out of stock products are handled with Algolia AI Search & Discovery.