Algolia Search is a hosted full-text, numerical, and faceted search engine capable of delivering realtime results from the first keystroke.
Our PHP client lets you easily use the Algolia Search API from your backend. It wraps the Algolia Search REST API.
Getting Started
Commands Reference
Getting started
Search
Indexing
Settings
Manage Indices
Api Keys
Advanced
- Custom batch
- Wait for an indexing operation
- Multiple queries
- Delete by query
- Backup / Export an index
- List api keys
- Add user key
- Update user key
- Delete user key
- Get key permissions
- Get Logs
Check our online guides:
- Data Formatting
- Import and Synchronize data
- Autocomplete
- Instant search page
- Filtering and Faceting
- Sorting
- Ranking Formula
- Typo-Tolerance
- Geo-Search
- Security
- API-Keys
- REST API
To setup your project, follow these steps:
- Install the package via Composer:
composer require algolia/algoliasearch-client-phpIf you don't use Composer, you can copy the algoliasearch.php file and the src and resources directories to your project).
- Next you'll have to initialize the client with your ApplicationID and API-Key. You can find all of them on your Algolia account.
// composer autoload
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
// if you are not using composer: require_once 'path/to/algoliasearch.php';
$client = new \AlgoliaSearch\Client('YourApplicationID', 'YourAPIKey');If you're a Symfony or Laravel user, you're probably looking for the following integrations
- Laravel: algolia/algoliasearch-laravel
- Symfony: algolia/AlgoliaSearchBundle
In 30 seconds, this quick start tutorial will show you how to index and search objects.
Without any prior configuration, you can start indexing 500 contacts in the contacts index using the following code:
$index = $client->initIndex('contacts');
$batch = json_decode(file_get_contents('contacts.json'), true);
$index->addObjects($batch);You can now search for contacts using firstname, lastname, company, etc. (even with typos):
// search by firstname
var_dump($index->search('jimmie'));
// search a firstname with typo
var_dump($index->search('jimie'));
// search for a company
var_dump($index->search('california paint'));
// search for a firstname & company
var_dump($index->search('jimmie paint'));Settings can be customized to tune the search behavior. For example, you can add a custom sort by number of followers to the already great built-in relevance:
$index->setSettings(['customRanking' => ['desc(followers)']]);You can also configure the list of attributes you want to index by order of importance (first = most important):
$index->setSettings(
[
'attributesToIndex' => [
'lastname',
'firstname',
'company',
'email',
'city',
'address'
]
]
);Since the engine is designed to suggest results as you type, you'll generally search by prefix. In this case the order of attributes is very important to decide which hit is the best:
var_dump($index->search('or'));
var_dump($index->search('jim'));Note: If you are building a web application, you may be more interested in using our JavaScript client to perform queries. It brings two benefits:
- Your users get a better response time by not going through your servers
- It will offload unnecessary tasks from your servers
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/algoliasearch/3/algoliasearch.min.js"></script>
<script>
var client = algoliasearch('ApplicationID', 'apiKey');
var index = client.initIndex('indexName');
// perform query "jim"
index.search('jim', searchCallback);
// the last optional argument can be used to add search parameters
index.search(
'jim', {
hitsPerPage: 5,
facets: '*',
maxValuesPerFacet: 10
},
searchCallback
);
function searchCallback(err, content) {
if (err) {
console.error(err);
return;
}
console.log(content);
}
</script>Notes: If you are building a web application, you may be more interested in using our JavaScript client to perform queries. It brings two benefits:
- Your users get a better response time by not going through your servers
- It will offload unnecessary tasks from your servers.
To perform a search, you only need to initialize the index and perform a call to the search function.
The search query allows only to retrieve 1000 hits, if you need to retrieve more than 1000 hits for seo, you can use Backup / Retrieve all index content
$index = $client->initIndex('contacts');
$res = $index->search('query string');
$res = $index->search('query string', ['attributesToRetrieve' => 'fistname,lastname', 'hitsPerPage' => 50]);The server response will look like:
{
"hits": [
{
"firstname": "Jimmie",
"lastname": "Barninger",
"objectID": "433",
"_highlightResult": {
"firstname": {
"value": "<em>Jimmie</em>",
"matchLevel": "partial"
},
"lastname": {
"value": "Barninger",
"matchLevel": "none"
},
"company": {
"value": "California <em>Paint</em> & Wlpaper Str",
"matchLevel": "partial"
}
}
}
],
"page": 0,
"nbHits": 1,
"nbPages": 1,
"hitsPerPage": 20,
"processingTimeMS": 1,
"query": "jimmie paint",
"params": "query=jimmie+paint&attributesToRetrieve=firstname,lastname&hitsPerPage=50"
}You can use the following optional arguments:
Here is the list of parameters you can use with the search method (search scope):
Parameters that can also be used in a setSettings also have the indexing scope
Search
- query
search
Attributes
- attributesToRetrieve
search
Filtering / Faceting
- filters
search - facets
search - maxValuesPerFacet
settingssearch
Highlighting / Snippeting
- attributesToHighlight
settingssearch - attributesToSnippet
settingssearch - highlightPreTag
settingssearch - highlightPostTag
settingssearch - snippetEllipsisText
settingssearch
Pagination
- page
search - hitsPerPage
settingssearch
Typos
- minWordSizefor1Typo
settingssearch - minWordSizefor2Typos
settingssearch - typoTolerance
settingssearch - allowTyposOnNumericTokens
settingssearch - ignorePlurals
settingssearch - disableTypoToleranceOnAttributes
settingssearch
Geo-Search
-
aroundLatLng
search -
aroundLatLngViaIP
search -
insideBoundingBox
search -
insidePolygon
search
Query Strategy
- queryType
settingssearch - removeWordsIfNoResults
settingssearch - advancedSyntax
settingssearch - optionalWords
settingssearch - removeStopWords
settingssearch - exactOnSingleWordQuery
settingssearch - alternativesAsExact
settingssearch
Advanced
- distinct
settings,search - rankingInfo
search - numericFilters (deprecated)
search - tagFilters (deprecated)
search - facetFilters (deprecated)
search - analytics
search
You can easily retrieve an object using its objectID and optionally specify a comma separated list of attributes you want:
// Retrieves all attributes
$index->getObject('myID');
// Retrieves firstname and lastname attributes
$index->getObject('myID', 'firstname,lastname');
// Retrieves only the firstname attribute
$index->getObject('myID', 'firstname');You can also retrieve a set of objects:
$index->getObjects(['myID1', 'myID2']);Each entry in an index has a unique identifier called objectID. There are two ways to add an entry to the index:
- Using automatic
objectIDassignment. You will be able to access it in the answer. - Supplying your own
objectID.
You don't need to explicitly create an index, it will be automatically created the first time you add an object. Objects are schema less so you don't need any configuration to start indexing. If you wish to configure things, the settings section provides details about advanced settings.
Example with automatic objectID assignment:
$res = $index->addObject([
'firstname' => 'Jimmie',
'lastname' => 'Barninger'
]);
echo 'objectID=' . $res['objectID'] . "\n";Example with manual objectID assignment:
$res = $index->addObject(
[
'firstname' => 'Jimmie',
'lastname' => 'Barninger'
],
'myID'
);
echo 'objectID=' . $res['objectID'] . "\n";You have three options when updating an existing object:
- Replace all its attributes.
- Replace only some attributes.
- Apply an operation to some attributes.
Example on how to replace all attributes of an existing object:
$index->saveObject(
[
'firstname' => 'Jimmie',
'lastname' => 'Barninger',
'city' => 'New York',
'objectID' => 'myID'
]
);You have many ways to update an object's attributes:
- Set the attribute value
- Add a string or number element to an array
- Remove an element from an array
- Add a string or number element to an array if it doesn't exist
- Increment an attribute
- Decrement an attribute
Example to update only the city attribute of an existing object:
$index->partialUpdateObject(
[
'city' => 'San Francisco',
'objectID' => 'myID'
]
);Example to add a tag:
$index->partialUpdateObject(
[
'_tags' => ['value' => 'MyTag', '_operation' => 'Add'],
'objectID' => 'myID'
]
);Example to remove a tag:
$index->partialUpdateObject(
[
'_tags' => ['value' => 'MyTag', '_operation' => 'Remove'],
'objectID' => 'myID'
]
);Example to add a tag if it doesn't exist:
$index->partialUpdateObject(
[
'_tags' => ['value' => 'MyTag', '_operation' => 'AddUnique'],
'objectID' => 'myID'
]
);Example to increment a numeric value:
$index->partialUpdateObject(
[
'price' => ['value' => 42, '_operation' => 'Increment'],
'objectID' => 'myID'
]
);Note: Here we are incrementing the value by 42. To increment just by one, put
value:1.
Example to decrement a numeric value:
$index->partialUpdateObject(
[
'price' => ['value' => 42, '_operation' => 'Decrement'],
'objectID' => 'myID'
]
);Note: Here we are decrementing the value by 42. To decrement just by one, put
value:1.
You can delete an object using its objectID:
$index->deleteObject('myID');You can delete all objects matching a single query with the following code. Internally, the API client performs the query, deletes all matching hits, and waits until the deletions have been applied.
Take your precautions when using this method. Calling it with an empty query will result in cleaning the index of all its records.
$params = [];
$index->deleteByQuery('John', $params);All write operations in Algolia are asynchronous by design.
It means that when you add or update an object to your index, our servers will
reply to your request with a taskID as soon as they understood the write
operation.
The actual insert and indexing will be done after replying to your code.
You can wait for a task to complete using the waitTask method on the taskID returned by a write operation.
For example, to wait for indexing of a new object:
$res = $index->addObject(
[
'firstname' => 'Jimmie',
'lastname' => 'Barninger'
]
);
$index->waitTask($res['taskID']);If you want to ensure multiple objects have been indexed, you only need to check
the biggest taskID.
You can retrieve settings:
$settings = $index->getSettings();
var_dump($settings);$index->setSettings(array("customRanking" => array("desc(followers)")));You can forward all settings updates to the slaves of an index by using the forwardToSlaves option:
$index->setSettings(['customRanking' => ['desc(followers)']], true);Here is the list of parameters you can use with the set settings method (indexing scope):
Parameters that can be override at search time also have the indexing scope
Attributes
- attributesToIndex
settings - attributesForFaceting
settings - attributesToRetrieve
settings - unretrievableAttributes
settings
Ranking
- ranking
settings - customRanking
settings - slaves
settings
Filtering / Faceting
- maxValuesPerFacet
settingssearch
Highlighting / Snippeting
- attributesToHighlight
settingssearch - attributesToSnippet
settingssearch - highlightPreTag
settingssearch - highlightPostTag
settingssearch - snippetEllipsisText
settingssearch
Pagination
- hitsPerPage
settingssearch
Typos
- minWordSizefor1Typo
settingssearch - minWordSizefor2Typos
settingssearch - typoTolerance
settingssearch - allowTyposOnNumericTokens
settingssearch - ignorePlurals
settingssearch - disableTypoToleranceOnAttributes
settingssearch - separatorsToIndex
settings
Query Strategy
- queryType
settingssearch - removeWordsIfNoResults
settingssearch - advancedSyntax
settingssearch - optionalWords
settingssearch - removeStopWords
settingssearch - disablePrefixOnAttributes
settings - disableExactOnAttributes
settings - exactOnSingleWordQuery
settingssearch - alternativesAsExact
settingssearch
Advanced
- attributeForDistinct
settings - distinct
settings,search - numericAttributesToIndex
settings - allowCompressionOfIntegerArray
settings - altCorrections
settings - placeholders
settings
Each parameter in this page has a scope. Depending on the scope, you can use the parameter within the setSettings
and/or the search method
They are three scopes:
settings: The setting can only be used in thesetSettingsmethodsearch: The setting can only be used in thesearchmethodsettingssearch: The setting can be used in thesetSettingsmethod and be override in thesearchmethod
Search
- query
search
Attributes
- attributesToIndex
settings - attributesForFaceting
settings - attributesToRetrieve
settings - unretrievableAttributes
settings - attributesToRetrieve
search
Ranking
- ranking
settings - customRanking
settings - slaves
settings
Filtering / Faceting
- filters
search - facets
search - maxValuesPerFacet
settingssearch
Highlighting / Snippeting
- attributesToHighlight
settingssearch - attributesToSnippet
settingssearch - highlightPreTag
settingssearch - highlightPostTag
settingssearch - snippetEllipsisText
settingssearch
Pagination
- page
search - hitsPerPage
settingssearch
Typos
- minWordSizefor1Typo
settingssearch - minWordSizefor2Typos
settingssearch - typoTolerance
settingssearch - allowTyposOnNumericTokens
settingssearch - ignorePlurals
settingssearch - disableTypoToleranceOnAttributes
settingssearch - separatorsToIndex
settings
Geo-Search
- aroundLatLng
search - aroundLatLngViaIP
search - insideBoundingBox
search - insidePolygon
search
Query Strategy
- queryType
settingssearch - removeWordsIfNoResults
settingssearch - advancedSyntax
settingssearch - optionalWords
settingssearch - removeStopWords
settingssearch - disablePrefixOnAttributes
settings - disableExactOnAttributes
settings - exactOnSingleWordQuery
settingssearch - alternativesAsExact
settingssearch
Advanced
- attributeForDistinct
settings - distinct
settings,search - rankingInfo
search - numericAttributesToIndex
settings - allowCompressionOfIntegerArray
settings - numericFilters (deprecated)
search - tagFilters (deprecated)
search - facetFilters (deprecated)
search - analytics
search - altCorrections
settings - placeholders
settings
- scope:
search - type:
string - default:
""
The instant search query string, used to set the string you want to search in your index. If no query parameter is set, the textual search will match with all the objects.
- scope:
settings - type:
array of strings
The list of attributes you want index (i.e. to make searchable).
If set to null, all textual and numerical attributes of your objects are indexed. Make sure you updated this setting to get optimal results.
This parameter has two important uses:
- Limit the attributes to index.
For example, if you store the URL of a picture, you want to store it and be able to retrieve it, but you probably don't want to search in the URL. - Control part of the ranking.
Matches in attributes at the beginning of the list will be considered more important than matches in attributes further down the list. In one attribute, matching text at the beginning of the attribute will be considered more important than text after. You can disable this behavior if you add your attribute insideunordered(AttributeName). For example,attributesToIndex: ["title", "unordered(text)"]. You can decide to have the same priority for two attributes by passing them in the same string using a comma as a separator. For exampletitleandalternative_titlehave the same priority in this example, which is different than text priority:attributesToIndex:["title,alternative_title", "text"]. To get a full description of how the Ranking works, you can have a look at our Ranking guide.
- scope:
settings - type:
array of strings
The list of fields you want to use for faceting. All strings in the attribute selected for faceting are extracted and added as a facet. If set to null, no attribute is used for faceting.
- scope:
settings - type:
array of strings - default:
null
The list of attributes that cannot be retrieved at query time. This feature allows you to have attributes that are used for indexing and/or ranking but cannot be retrieved
Warning: for testing purposes, this setting is ignored when you're using the ADMIN API Key.
- scope:
settings,search - type:
array of strings
A string that contains the list of attributes you want to retrieve in order to minimize the size of the JSON answer.
Attributes are separated with a comma (for example "name,address").
You can also use a string array encoding (for example ["name","address"] ).
By default, all attributes are retrieved.
You can also use * to retrieve all values when an attributesToRetrieve setting is specified for your index.
objectID is always retrieved even when not specified.
- scope:
search - type:
array of strings - default:
attributesToIndex
List of attributes you want to use for textual search (must be a subset of the attributesToIndex index setting).
Attributes are separated with a comma such as "name,address".
You can also use JSON string array encoding such as encodeURIComponent("[\"name\",\"address\"]").
By default, all attributes specified in the attributesToIndex settings are used to search.
- scope:
settings - type:
array of strings - default:
['typo', 'geo', 'words', 'filters', 'proximity', 'attribute', 'exact', 'custom‘]
Controls the way results are sorted.
We have nine available criterion:
typo: Sort according to number of typos.geo: Sort according to decreasing distance when performing a geo location based search.words: Sort according to the number of query words matched by decreasing order. This parameter is useful when you use theoptionalWordsquery parameter to have results with the most matched words first.proximity: Sort according to the proximity of the query words in hits.attribute: Sort according to the order of attributes defined by attributesToIndex.exact:- If the user query contains one word: sort objects having an attribute that is exactly the query word before others. For example, if you search for the TV show "V", you want to find it with the "V" query and avoid getting all popular TV shows starting by the letter V before it.
- If the user query contains multiple words: sort according to the number of words that matched exactly (not as a prefix).
custom: Sort according to a user defined formula set in thecustomRankingattribute.asc(attributeName): Sort according to a numeric attribute using ascending order.attributeNamecan be the name of any numeric attribute in your records (integer, double or boolean).desc(attributeName): Sort according to a numeric attribute using descending order.attributeNamecan be the name of any numeric attribute in your records (integer, double or boolean).
To get a full description of how the Ranking works,
you can have a look at our Ranking guide.
- scope:
settings - type:
array of strings - default:
[]
Lets you specify part of the ranking.
The syntax of this condition is an array of strings containing attributes prefixed by the asc (ascending order) or desc (descending order) operator.
For example, "customRanking" => ["desc(population)", "asc(name)"].
To get a full description of how the Custom Ranking works, you can have a look at our Ranking guide.
- scope:
settings - type:
array of strings - default:
[]
The list of indices on which you want to replicate all write operations.
In order to get response times in milliseconds, we pre-compute part of the ranking during indexing.
If you want to use different ranking configurations depending of the use case, you need to create one index per ranking configuration.
This option enables you to perform write operations only on this index and automatically update slave indices with the same operations.
Filter the query with numeric, facet or/and tag filters.
The syntax is a SQL like syntax, you can use the OR and AND keywords. The syntax for the underlying numeric, facet and tag filters is the same than in the other filters:
available=1 AND (category:Book OR NOT category:Ebook) AND _tags:public
date: 1441745506 TO 1441755506 AND inStock > 0 AND author:"John Doe"
If no attribute name is specified,
the filter applies to _tags.
For example: public OR user_42 will translate to _tags:public OR _tags:user_42.
The list of keywords is:
OR: create a disjunctive filter between two filters.AND: create a conjunctive filter between two filters.TO: used to specify a range for a numeric filter.NOT: used to negate a filter. The syntax with the-isn’t allowed.
Note: To specify a value with spaces or with a value equal to a keyword, it's possible to add quotes.
Warning:
- Like for the other filters (for performance reasons), it's not possible to have FILTER1 OR (FILTER2 AND FILTER3).
- It's not possible to mix different categories of filters inside an OR like: num=3 OR tag1 OR facet:value
- It's not possible to negate a group, it's only possible to negate a filter: NOT(FILTER1 OR (FILTER2) is not allowed.
- scope:
search - type:
string - default:
""
List of object attributes that you want to use for faceting.
For each of the declared attributes, you'll be able to retrieve a list of the most relevant facet values, and their associated count for the current query.
Attributes are separated by a comma.
For example, "category,author".
You can also use JSON string array encoding.
For example, ["category","author"].
Only the attributes that have been added in attributesForFaceting index setting can be used in this parameter.
You can also use * to perform faceting on all attributes specified in attributesForFaceting.
If the number of results is important, the count can be approximate,
the attribute exhaustiveFacetsCount in the response is true when the count is exact.
- scope:
settings,search - type:
integer - default:
""
Limit the number of facet values returned for each facet.
For example, maxValuesPerFacet=10 will retrieve a maximum of 10 values per facet.
- scope:
settings,search - type:
array of strings - default:
null
Default list of attributes to highlight. If set to null, all indexed attributes are highlighted.
A string that contains the list of attributes you want to highlight according to the query.
Attributes are separated by commas.
You can also use a string array encoding (for example ["name","address"]).
If an attribute has no match for the query, the raw value is returned.
By default, all indexed attributes are highlighted (as long as they are strings).
You can use * if you want to highlight all attributes.
A matchLevel is returned for each highlighted attribute and can contain:
full: If all the query terms were found in the attribute.partial: If only some of the query terms were found.none: If none of the query terms were found.
- scope:
settings,search - type:
array of strings - default:
null
Default list of attributes to snippet alongside the number of words to return (syntax is attributeName:nbWords).
If set to null, no snippet is computed.
- scope:
settings,search - type:
string - default:
<em>
Specify the string that is inserted before the highlighted parts in the query result (defaults to <em>).
- scope:
settings,search - type:
string - default:
<em>
Specify the string that is inserted after the highlighted parts in the query result (defaults to </em>).
- default:
'' - type:
string
String used as an ellipsis indicator when a snippet is truncated. Defaults to an empty string for all accounts created before 10/2/2016, and to … (UTF-8 U+2026) for accounts created after that date.
- scope:
search - type:
integer - default:
0
Pagination parameter used to select the page to retrieve.
Page is zero based and defaults to 0. Thus, to retrieve the 10th page you need to set page=9.
- scope:
settings,search - type:
integer - default:
20
Pagination parameter used to select the number of hits per page. Defaults to 20.
- scope:
settings,search - type:
integer - default:
4
The minimum number of characters needed to accept one typo.
- scope:
settings,search - type:
integer - default:
8
The minimum number of characters needed to accept two typos.
- scope:
settings,search - type:
boolean - default:
true
This option allows you to control the number of typos allowed in the result set:
true: The typo tolerance is enabled and all matching hits are retrieved (default behavior).false: The typo tolerance is disabled. All results with typos will be hidden.min: Only keep results with the minimum number of typos. For example, if one result matches without typos, then all results with typos will be hidden.strict: Hits matching with 2 typos are not retrieved if there are some matching without typos.
- scope:
settings,search - type:
boolean - default:
true
If set to false, disables typo tolerance on numeric tokens (numbers).
- scope:
settings,search - type:
boolean - default:
false
If set to true, plural won't be considered as a typo. For example, car and cars, or foot and feet will be considered as equivalent. Defaults to false.
- scope:
settings,search - type:
string - default: ``
List of attributes on which you want to disable typo tolerance
(must be a subset of the attributesToIndex index setting).
Attributes are separated with a comma such as "name,address".
You can also use JSON string array encoding such as encodeURIComponent("[\"name\",\"address\"]").
- scope:
settings - type:
string - default:
empty
Specify the separators (punctuation characters) to index.
By default, separators are not indexed.
Use +# to be able to search Google+ or C#.
- scope:
search - type:
string
Search for entries around a given latitude/longitude (specified as two floats separated by a comma).
For example, aroundLatLng=47.316669,5.016670.
- By default the maximum distance is automatically guessed based on the density of the area but you can specify it manually in meters with the aroundRadius parameter. The precision for ranking can be set with aroundPrecision parameter.
- If you set aroundPrecision=100, the distances will be considered by ranges of 100m.
- For example all distances 0 and 100m will be considered as identical for the "geo" ranking parameter.
When aroundRadius is not set, the radius is computed automatically using the density of the area, you can retrieve the computed radius in the automaticRadius attribute of the answer, you can also use the minimumAroundRadius query parameter to specify a minimum radius in meters for the automatic computation of aroundRadius.
At indexing, you should specify geoloc of an object with the _geoloc attribute
(in the form "_geoloc":{"lat":48.853409, "lng":2.348800}
or "_geoloc":[{"lat":48.853409, "lng":2.348800},{"lat":48.547456, "lng":2.972075}]
if you have several geo-locations in your record).
- scope:
search - type:
boolean - default:
false
Search for entries around a given latitude/longitude automatically computed from user IP address.
To enable it, use aroundLatLngViaIP=true.
You can specify the maximum distance in meters with the aroundRadius parameter
and the precision for ranking with aroundPrecision.
For example:
- if you set aroundPrecision=100, two objects that are in the range 0-99m will be considered as identical in the ranking for the "geo" ranking parameter (same for 100-199, 200-299, ... ranges).
When indexing, you should specify the geo location of an object with the _geoloc attribute
in the form {"_geoloc":{"lat":48.853409, "lng":2.348800}}.
- scope:
search - type:
boolean - default:
false
Search entries inside a given area defined by the two extreme points of a rectangle (defined by 4 floats: p1Lat,p1Lng,p2Lat,p2Lng). For example:
insideBoundingBox=47.3165,4.9665,47.3424,5.0201
At indexing, you should specify geoloc of an object with the _geoloc attribute
(in the form "_geoloc":{"lat":48.853409, "lng":2.348800}
or "_geoloc":[{"lat":48.853409, "lng":2.348800},{"lat":48.547456, "lng":2.972075}]
if you have several geo-locations in your record).
You can use several bounding boxes (OR) by passing more than 4 values. For example: instead of having 4 values you can pass 8 to search inside the UNION of two bounding boxes.
Search entries inside a given area defined by a set of points (defined by a minimum of 6 floats: p1Lat,p1Lng,p2Lat,p2Lng,p3Lat,p3Long).
For example:
InsidePolygon=47.3165,4.9665,47.3424,5.0201,47.32,4.98).
At indexing, you should specify geoloc of an object with the _geoloc attribute
(in the form "_geoloc":{"lat":48.853409, "lng":2.348800}
or "_geoloc":[{"lat":48.853409, "lng":2.348800},{"lat":48.547456, "lng":2.972075}]
if you have several geo-locations in your record).
- scope:
settings,search - default:
prefixLast
Selects how the query words are interpreted. It can be one of the following values:
prefixAll: All query words are interpreted as prefixes. This option is not recommended.prefixLast: Only the last word is interpreted as a prefix (default behavior).prefixNone: No query word is interpreted as a prefix. This option is not recommended.
- scope:
settings,search - type:
string - default:
none
This option is used to select a strategy in order to avoid having an empty result page. There are four different options:
lastWords: When a query does not return any results, the last word will be added as optional. The process is repeated with n-1 word, n-2 word, ... until there are results.firstWords: When a query does not return any results, the first word will be added as optional. The process is repeated with second word, third word, ... until there are results.allOptional: When a query does not return any results, a second trial will be made with all words as optional. This is equivalent to transforming the AND operand between query terms to an OR operand.none: No specific processing is done when a query does not return any results (default behavior).
- scope:
settings,search - default:
0 (false)
Enables the advanced query syntax.
This syntax allow to do two things:
- Phrase query: A phrase query defines a particular sequence of terms. A phrase query is built by Algolia's query parser for words surrounded by
". For example,"search engine"will retrieve records havingsearchnext toengineonly. Typo tolerance is disabled on phrase queries. - Prohibit operator: The prohibit operator excludes records that contain the term after the
-symbol. For example,search -enginewill retrieve records containingsearchbut notengine.
- scope:
settings,search - default:
[]
A string that contains the comma separated list of words that should be considered as optional when found in the query.
- scope:
settings,search - default:
false
Remove stop words from the query before executing it. Defaults to false.
Use a boolean to enable/disable all 41 supported languages and a comma separated list
of iso codes of the languages you want to use consider to enable the stopwords removal
on a subset of them (select the one you have in your records).
In most use-cases, you shouldn't need to enable this option.
List of 41 supported languages with their associated iso code: Arabic=ar, Armenian=hy, Basque=eu, Bengali=bn, Brazilian=pt-br, Bulgarian=bg, Catalan=ca, Chinese=zh, Czech=cs, Danish=da, Dutch=nl, English=en, Finnish=fi, French=fr, Galician=gl, German=de, Greek=el, Hindi=hi, Hungarian=hu, Indonesian=id, Irish=ga, Italian=it, Japanese=ja, Korean=ko, Kurdish=ku, Latvian=lv, Lithuanian=lt, Marathi=mr, Norwegian=no, Persian (Farsi)=fa, Polish=pl, Portugese=pt, Romanian=ro, Russian=ru, Slovak=sk, Spanish=es, Swedish=sv, Thai=th, Turkish=tr, Ukranian=uk, Urdu=ur
Stop words removal is applied on query words that are not interpreted as a prefix. The behavior depends of the queryType parameter:
queryType=prefixLastmeans the last query word is a prefix and it won’t be considered for stop words removalqueryType=prefixNonemeans no query word are prefix, stop words removal will be applied on all query wordsqueryType=prefixAllmeans all query terms are prefix, stop words won’t be removed
This parameter is useful when you have a query in natural language like “what is a record?”. In this case, before executing the query, we will remove “what”, “is” and “a” in order to just search for “record”. This removal will remove false positive because of stop words, especially when combined with optional words. For most use cases, it is better to not use this feature as people search by keywords on search engines.
- scope:
settings - type:
string array - default:
[]
List of attributes on which you want to disable prefix matching
(must be a subset of the attributesToIndex index setting).
This setting is useful on attributes that contain string that should not be matched as a prefix (for example a product SKU).
- scope:
settings - type:
string array - default:
[]
List of attributes on which you want to disable the computation of exact criteria
(must be a subset of the attributesToIndex index setting).
- scope:
settings,search - type:
string - default:
attribute
This parameter control how the exact ranking criterion is computed when the query contains one word. There is three different values:
none: no exact on single word queryword: exact set to 1 if the query word is found in the record. The query word needs to have at least 3 chars and not be part of our stop words dictionaryattribute(default): exact set to 1 if there is an attribute containing a string equals to the query
- scope:
settings,search - type:
string - default:
["ignorePlurals", "singleWordSynonym"]
Specify the list of approximation that should be considered as an exact match in the ranking formula:
ignorePlurals: alternative words added by the ignorePlurals featuresingleWordSynonym: single-word synonym (For example "NY" = "NYC")multiWordsSynonym: multiple-words synonym (For example "NY" = "New York")
- scope:
settings - type:
string
The name of the attribute used for the Distinct feature.
This feature is similar to the SQL "distinct" keyword.
When enabled in queries with the distinct=1 parameter,
all hits containing a duplicate value for this attribute are removed from the results.
For example, if the chosen attribute is show_name and several hits have the same value for show_name,
then only the first one is kept and the others are removed from the results.
To get a full understanding of how Distinct works,
you can have a look at our guide on distinct.
- scope:
settings,search - type:
boolean - default:
false
If set to 1,
enables the distinct feature, disabled by default, if the attributeForDistinct index setting is set.
This feature is similar to the SQL "distinct" keyword.
When enabled in a query with the distinct=1 parameter,
all hits containing a duplicate value for the attributeForDistinct attribute are removed from results.
For example, if the chosen attribute is show_name and several hits have the same value for show_name,
then only the best one is kept and the others are removed.
To get a full understanding of how Distinct works,
you can have a look at our guide on distinct.
- scope:
search - type:
boolean - default:
false
If set to true, the result hits will contain ranking information in the _rankingInfo attribute.
- scope:
settings - type:
array of strings
All numerical attributes are automatically indexed as numerical filters
(allowing filtering operations like < and <=).
If you don't need filtering on some of your numerical attributes,
you can specify this list to speed up the indexing.
If you only need to filter on a numeric value with the operator '=',
you can speed up the indexing by specifying the attribute with equalOnly(AttributeName).
The other operators will be disabled.
- scope:
settings - type:
boolean - default:
false
Allows compression of big integer arrays.
In data-intensive use-cases, we recommended enabling this feature and then storing the list of user IDs or rights as an integer array. When enabled, the integer array is reordered to reach a better compression ratio.
- scope:
search - type:
array of strings - default:
[]
A string that contains the comma separated list of numeric filters you want to apply.
The filter syntax is attributeName followed by operand followed by value.
Supported operands are <, <=, =, > and >=.
You can easily perform range queries via the : operator.
This is equivalent to combining a >= and <= operand.
For example, numericFilters=price:10 to 1000.
You can also mix OR and AND operators. The OR operator is defined with a parenthesis syntax.
For example, (code=1 AND (price:[0-100] OR price:[1000-2000]))
translates to encodeURIComponent("code=1,(price:0 to 100,price:1000 to 2000)").
You can also use a string array encoding (for example numericFilters: ["price>100","price<1000"]).
- scope:
search - type:
string - default:
""
Filter the query by a set of tags.
You can AND tags by separating them with commas. To OR tags, you must add parentheses.
For example, tagFilters=tag1,(tag2,tag3) means tag1 AND (tag2 OR tag3).
You can also use a string array encoding.
For example, tagFilters: ["tag1",["tag2","tag3"]] means tag1 AND (tag2 OR tag3).
Negations are supported via the - operator, prefixing the value.
For example: tagFilters=tag1,-tag2.
At indexing, tags should be added in the _tags attribute of objects.
For example {"_tags":["tag1","tag2"]}.
- scope:
search - type:
string - default:
""
Filter the query with a list of facets. Facets are separated by commas and is encoded as attributeName:value.
To OR facets, you must add parentheses.
For example: facetFilters=(category:Book,category:Movie),author:John%20Doe.
You can also use a string array encoding.
For example, [["category:Book","category:Movie"],"author:John%20Doe"].
- scope:
settings - type:
boolean - default:
true
If set to false, this query will not be taken into account in the analytics feature.
- scope:
settings - type:
hash of array of words
This is an advanced use-case to define a token substitutable by a list of words without having the original token searchable.
It is defined by a hash associating placeholders to lists of substitutable words.
For example, "placeholders": { "<streetnumber>": ["1", "2", "3", ..., "9999"]}
would allow it to be able to match all street numbers. We use the < > tag syntax
to define placeholders in an attribute.
For example:
- Push a record with the placeholder:
{ "name" : "Apple Store", "address" : "<streetnumber> Opera street, Paris" }. - Configure the placeholder in your index settings:
"placeholders": { "<streetnumber>" : ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", ... ], ... }.
- scope:
settings - type:
array of objects - defaults:
[]
Specify alternative corrections that you want to consider.
Each alternative correction is described by an object containing three attributes:
- word: The word to correct.
- correction: The corrected word.
- nbTypos The number of typos (1 or 2) that will be considered for the ranking algorithm (1 typo is better than 2 typos).
For example:
"altCorrections": [ { "word" : "foot", "correction": "feet", "nbTypos": 1 }, { "word": "feet", "correction": "foot", "nbTypos": 1 } ].
To create an index, you need to perform can perform any indexing operation like:
- set settings
- add object
You can list all your indices along with their associated information (number of entries, disk size, etc.) with the listIndexes method:
var_dump($client->listIndexes());You can delete an index using its name:
$client->deleteIndex('contacts');You can delete the index contents without removing settings and index specific API keys by using the clearIndex command:
$index->clearIndex();You can easily copy or rename an existing index using the copy and move commands.
Note: Move and copy commands overwrite the destination index.
// Rename MyIndex in MyIndexNewName
$res = $client->moveIndex('MyIndex', 'MyIndexNewName');
// Copy MyIndex in MyIndexCopy
$res = $client->copyIndex('MyIndex', 'MyIndexCopy');The move command is particularly useful if you want to update a big index atomically from one version to another. For example, if you recreate your index MyIndex each night from a database by batch, you only need to:
- Import your database into a new index using batches. Let's call this new index
MyNewIndex. - Rename
MyNewIndextoMyIndexusing the move command. This will automatically override the old index and new queries will be served on the new one.
// Rename MyNewIndex in MyIndex (and overwrite it)
$res = $client->moveIndex('MyNewIndex', 'MyIndex');The admin API key provides full control of all your indices. The admin API key should always be kept secure; do NOT use it from outside your back-end.
You can also generate user API keys to control security. These API keys can be restricted to a set of operations or/and restricted to a given index.
You may have a single index containing per user data. In that case, all records should be tagged with their associated user_id in order to add a tagFilters=user_42 filter at query time to retrieve only what a user has access to. If you're using the JavaScript client, it will result in a security breach since the user is able to modify the tagFilters you've set by modifying the code from the browser. To keep using the JavaScript client (recommended for optimal latency) and target secured records, you can generate a secured API key from your backend:
// generate a public API key for user 42. Here, records are tagged with:
// - 'user_XXXX' if they are visible by user XXXX
$public_key = $client->generateSecuredApiKey('YourSearchOnlyApiKey', ['filters' => '_tags:user_42']);This public API key can then be used in your JavaScript code as follow:
var client = algoliasearch('YourApplicationID', '<%= public_api_key %>');
var index = client.initIndex('indexName')
index.search('something', function(err, content) {
if (err) {
console.error(err);
return;
}
console.log(content);
});You can mix rate limits and secured API keys by setting a userToken query parameter at API key generation time. When set, a unique user will be identified by her IP + user_token instead of only by her IP. This allows you to restrict a single user to performing a maximum of N API calls per hour, even if she shares her IP with another user.
// generate a public API key for user 42. Here, records are tagged with:
// - 'user_XXXX' if they are visible by user XXXX
$public_key = $client->generateSecuredApiKey(
'YourSearchOnlyApiKey',
['filters' => 'user_42', 'userToken' => 'user_42']
);This public API key can then be used in your JavaScript code as follow:
var client = algoliasearch('YourApplicationID', '<%= public_api_key %>');
var index = client.initIndex('indexName')
index.search('another query', function(err, content) {
if (err) {
console.error(err);
return;
}
console.log(content);
});You may want to perform multiple operations with one API call to reduce latency. We expose four methods to perform batch operations:
addObjects: Add an array of objects using automaticobjectIDassignment.saveObjects: Add or update an array of objects that contains anobjectIDattribute.deleteObjects: Delete an array of objectIDs.partialUpdateObjects: Partially update an array of objects that contain anobjectIDattribute (only specified attributes will be updated).
Example using automatic objectID assignment:
$res = $index->addObjects(
[
[
'firstname' => 'Jimmie',
'lastname' => 'Barninger'
],
[
'firstname' => 'Warren',
'lastname' => 'myID1'
]
]
);Example with user defined objectID (add or update):
$res = $index->saveObjects(
[
[
'firstname' => 'Jimmie',
'lastname' => 'Barninger',
'objectID' => 'SFO'
],
[
'firstname' => 'Warren',
'lastname' => 'Speach',
'objectID' => 'myID2'
]
]
);Example that deletes a set of records:
$res = $index->deleteObjects(["myID1", "myID2"]);Example that updates only the firstname attribute:
$res = $index->partialUpdateObjects(
[
[
'firstname' => 'Jimmie',
'objectID' => 'SFO'
],
[
'firstname' => 'Warren',
'objectID' => 'myID2'
]
]
);Custom batch:
$res = $index->batch(
[
'requests' => [
[
'action' => 'addObject',
'body' => ['firstname' => 'Jimmie', 'lastname' => 'Barninger']
],
[
'action' => 'addObject',
'body' => ['Warren' => 'Jimmie', 'lastname' => 'Speach']
],
[
'action' => 'updateObject',
'objectID' => 'myID3',
'body' => ['firstname' => 'Rob']
],
]
]
);If you have one index per user, you may want to perform a batch operations across severals indexes. We expose a method to perform this type of batch:
$res = $index->batch(
[
[
'action' => 'addObject',
'indexName' => 'index1',
[
'firstname' => 'Jimmie',
'lastname' => 'Barninger'
]
],
[
'action' => 'addObject',
'indexName' => 'index1',
[
'firstname' => 'Warren',
'lastname' => 'myID1'
]
]
]
);The attribute action can have these values:
- addObject
- updateObject
- partialUpdateObject
- partialUpdateObjectNoCreate
- deleteObject
The search method cannot return more than 1,000 results. If you need to
retrieve all the content of your index (for backup, SEO purposes or for running
a script on it), you should use the browse method instead. This method lets
you retrieve objects beyond the 1,000 limit.
This method is optimized for speed. To make it fast, distinct, typo-tolerance, word proximity, geo distance and number of matched words are disabled. Results are still returned ranked by attributes and custom ranking.
It will return a cursor alongside your data, that you can then use to retrieve
the next chunk of your records.
You can specify custom parameters (like page or hitsPerPage) on your first
browse call, and these parameters will then be included in the cursor. Note
that it is not possible to access records beyond the 1,000th on the first call.
Example:
// Iterate with a filter over the index
foreach ($this->index->browse('', ['filters' => 'i<42']) as $hit) {
print_r($hit);
}
$next_cursor = $this->index->browseFrom('', ['numericFilters' => 'i<42'])['cursor'];To list existing keys, you can use:
// Lists global API Keys
$client->listUserKeys();
// Lists API Keys that can access only to this index
$index->listUserKeys();Each key is defined by a set of permissions that specify the authorized actions. The different permissions are:
- search: Allowed to search.
- browse: Allowed to retrieve all index contents via the browse API.
- addObject: Allowed to add/update an object in the index.
- deleteObject: Allowed to delete an existing object.
- deleteIndex: Allowed to delete index content.
- settings: allows to get index settings.
- editSettings: Allowed to change index settings.
- analytics: Allowed to retrieve analytics through the analytics API.
- listIndexes: Allowed to list all accessible indexes.
To create API keys:
// Creates a new global API key that can only perform search actions
$res = $client->addUserKey(['search']);
echo 'key=' . $res['key'] . "\n";
// Creates a new API key that can only perform search action on this index
$res = $index->addUserKey(['search']);
echo 'key=' . $res['key'] . "\n";You can also create an API Key with advanced settings:
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<div class='client-readme-param-name'><code>validity</code></div>
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<p>Add a validity period. The key will be valid for a specific period of time (in seconds).</p>
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<div class='client-readme-param-name'><code>maxQueriesPerIPPerHour</code></div>
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<td class='client-readme-param-content'>
<p>Specify the maximum number of API calls allowed from an IP address per hour. Each time an API call is performed with this key, a check is performed. If the IP at the source of the call did more than this number of calls in the last hour, a 403 code is returned. Defaults to 0 (no rate limit). This parameter can be used to protect you from attempts at retrieving your entire index contents by massively querying the index.</p>
Note: If you are sending the query through your servers, you must use the enableRateLimitForward("TheAdminAPIKey", "EndUserIP", "APIKeyWithRateLimit") function to enable rate-limit.
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<div class='client-readme-param-name'><code>maxHitsPerQuery</code></div>
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</div>
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<p>Specify the maximum number of hits this API key can retrieve in one call. Defaults to 0 (unlimited). This parameter can be used to protect you from attempts at retrieving your entire index contents by massively querying the index.</p>
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<div class='client-readme-param-name'><code>indexes</code></div>
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<p>Specify the list of targeted indices. You can target all indices starting with a prefix or ending with a suffix using the '*' character. For example, "dev_*" matches all indices starting with "dev_" and "*_dev" matches all indices ending with "_dev". Defaults to all indices if empty or blank.</p>
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<div class='client-readme-param-name'><code>referers</code></div>
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<p>Specify the list of referers. You can target all referers starting with a prefix or ending with a suffix using the '*' character. For example, "algolia.com/*" matches all referers starting with "algolia.com/" and "*.algolia.com" matches all referers ending with ".algolia.com". Defaults to all referers if empty or blank.</p>
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<div class='client-readme-param-name'><code>queryParameters</code></div>
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<p>Specify the list of query parameters. You can force the query parameters for a query using the url string format (param1=X&param2=Y...).</p>
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<div class='client-readme-param-name'><code>description</code></div>
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<p>Specify a description to describe where the key is used.</p>
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// Creates a new index specific API key valid for 300 seconds, with a rate limit of 100 calls per hour per IP and a maximum of 20 hits
$params = [
'validity' => 300,
'maxQueriesPerIPPerHour' => 100,
'maxHitsPerQuery' => 20,
'indexes' => ['dev_*'],
'referers' => ['algolia.com/*'],
'queryParameters' => 'typoTolerance=strict&ignorePlurals=false',
'description' => 'Limited search only API key for algolia.com'
];
$res = $client->addUserKey(params);
echo 'key=' . $res['key'] . "\n";To update the permissions of an existing key:
// Update an existing global API key that is valid for 300 seconds
$res = $client->updateUserKey('myAPIKey', ['search'], 300);
echo 'key=' . $res['key'] . "\n";
// Update an existing index specific API key valid for 300 seconds, with a rate limit of 100 calls per hour per IP and a maximum of 20 hits
$res = $index->updateUserKey('myAPIKey', ['search'], 300, 100, 20);
echo 'key=' . $res['key'] . "\n";To get the permissions of a given key:
// Gets the rights of a global key
$res = $client->getUserKeyACL('f420238212c54dcfad07ea0aa6d5c45f');
// Gets the rights of an index specific key
$res = $index->getUserKeyACL('71671c38001bf3ac857bc82052485107');To delete an existing key:
// Deletes a global key
$res = $client->deleteUserKey('f420238212c54dcfad07ea0aa6d5c45f');
// Deletes an index specific key
$res = $index->deleteUserKey('71671c38001bf3ac857bc82052485107');To get the permissions of a given key:
// Gets the rights of a global key
$res = $client->getUserKeyACL('f420238212c54dcfad07ea0aa6d5c45f');
// Gets the rights of an index specific key
$res = $index->getUserKeyACL('71671c38001bf3ac857bc82052485107');You can send multiple queries with a single API call using a batch of queries:
// perform 3 queries in a single API call:
// - 1st query targets index `categories`
// - 2nd and 3rd queries target index `products`
$queries = [
['indexName' => 'categories', 'query' => $myQueryString, 'hitsPerPage' => 3],
['indexName' => 'products', 'query' => $myQueryString, 'hitsPerPage' => 3, 'facetFilters' => 'promotion'],
['indexName' => 'products', 'query' => $myQueryString, 'hitsPerPage' => 10]
];
$results = $client->multipleQueries($queries);
var_dump(results['results']):The resulting JSON answer contains a results array storing the underlying queries answers. The answers order is the same than the requests order.
You can specify a strategy parameter to optimize your multiple queries:
none: Execute the sequence of queries until the end.stopIfEnoughMatches: Execute the sequence of queries until the number of hits is reached by the sum of hits.
You can retrieve the latest logs via this API. Each log entry contains:
- Timestamp in ISO-8601 format
- Client IP
- Request Headers (API Key is obfuscated)
- Request URL
- Request method
- Request body
- Answer HTTP code
- Answer body
- SHA1 ID of entry
You can retrieve the logs of your last 1,000 API calls and browse them using the offset/length parameters:
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<div class='client-readme-param-name'><code>offset</code></div>
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<p>Specify the first entry to retrieve (0-based, 0 is the most recent log entry). Defaults to 0.</p>
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<div class='client-readme-param-name'><code>length</code></div>
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</td>
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<p>Specify the maximum number of entries to retrieve starting at the offset. Defaults to 10. Maximum allowed value: 1,000.</p>
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<div class='client-readme-param-name'><code>onlyErrors</code></div>
</div>
</div>
</td>
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<p>Retrieve only logs with an HTTP code different than 200 or 201. (deprecated)</p>
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<div class='client-readme-param-name'><code>type</code></div>
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<p>Specify the type of logs to retrieve:</p>
query: Retrieve only the queries.build: Retrieve only the build operations.error: Retrieve only the errors (same asonlyErrorsparameters).
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// Get last 10 log entries
$res = $client->getLogs();
// Get last 100 log entries
$res = $client->getLogs(0, 100);We've developed API clients for the most common programming languages and platforms. These clients are advanced wrappers on top of our REST API itself and have been made in order to help you integrating the service within your apps: for both indexing and search.
Everything that can be done using the REST API can be done using those clients.
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