Algolia Search is a hosted full-text, numerical, and faceted search engine capable of delivering realtime results from the first keystroke.
The Algolia Search API Client for Python lets you easily use the Algolia Search REST API from your Python code.
We implemented an asynchronous version of the client that may suit your need if
you are using a framework such as aiohttp in your backend. This version can
be found here.
You can find the full reference on Algolia's website.
Install AlgoliaSearch using pip:
pip install --upgrade algoliasearchIn 30 seconds, this quick start tutorial will show you how to index and search objects.
To begin, you will need to initialize the client. In order to do this you will need your Application ID and API Key. You can find both on your Algolia account.
from algoliasearch import algoliasearch
client = algoliasearch.Client("YourApplicationID", 'YourAPIKey')
index = client.init_index('your_index_name')Note: If you use this API Client with Google AppEngine (Thanks @apassant), it will use urlfetch instead of using the request module. Please be aware of urlfetch's limits, and note that SSL certificates will not be verified for calls to domains other than algolia.net due to the lack of SNI support in urlfetch. To run unit tests on the AppEngine stub, please define an APPENGINE_RUNTIME enviroment variable.
Without any prior configuration, you can start indexing 500 contacts in the contacts index using the following code:
index = client.init_index("contact")
batch = json.load(open('contacts.json'))
index.add_objects(batch)Settings can be customized to fine tune the search behavior. For example, you can add a custom sort by number of followers to further enhance the built-in relevance:
index.set_settings({"customRanking": ["desc(followers)"]})You can also configure the list of attributes you want to index by order of importance (most important first).
Note: The Algolia engine is designed to suggest results as you type, which means you'll generally search by prefix. In this case, the order of attributes is very important to decide which hit is the best:
index.set_settings({"searchableAttributes": ["lastname", "firstname", "company",
"email", "city", "address"]})You can now search for contacts using firstname, lastname, company, etc. (even with typos):
# search by firstname
print index.search("jimmie")
# search a firstname with typo
print index.search("jimie")
# search for a company
print index.search("california paint")
# search for a firstname & company
print index.search("jimmie paint")Warning: If you are building a web application, you may be more interested in using one of our frontend search UI libraries
The following example shows how to build a front-end search quickly using InstantSearch.js
<!doctype html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/instantsearch.js@2.3/dist/instantsearch.min.css">
<!-- Always use `2.x` versions in production rather than `2` to mitigate any side effects on your website,
Find the latest version on InstantSearch.js website: https://community.algolia.com/instantsearch.js/v2/guides/usage.html -->
</head>
<body>
<header>
<div>
<input id="search-input" placeholder="Search for products">
<!-- We use a specific placeholder in the input to guides users in their search. -->
</header>
<main>
</main>
<script type="text/html" id="hit-template">
<p class="hit-name">{{{_highlightResult.firstname.value}}} {{{_highlightResult.lastname.value}}}</p>
</script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/instantsearch.js@2.3/dist/instantsearch.min.js"></script>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>var search = instantsearch({
// Replace with your own values
appId: 'YourApplicationID',
apiKey: 'YourSearchOnlyAPIKey', // search only API key, no ADMIN key
indexName: 'contacts',
urlSync: true,
searchParameters: {
hitsPerPage: 10
}
});
search.addWidget(
instantsearch.widgets.searchBox({
container: '#search-input'
})
);
search.addWidget(
instantsearch.widgets.hits({
container: '#hits',
templates: {
item: document.getElementById('hit-template').innerHTML,
empty: "We didn't find any results for the search <em>\"{{query}}\"</em>"
}
})
);
search.start();- Create secured API Key
- Add API Key
- Update API Key
- Delete API Key
- Get API Key permissions
- List API Keys
- Save synonym
- Batch synonyms
- Delete synonym
- Clear all synonyms
- Get synonym
- Search synonyms
- Export Synonyms
- Save a single rule
- Batch save multiple rules
- Get a rule
- Delete a single rule
- Clear all rules
- Search for rules
- Export rules
- Assign or Move userID
- Get top userID
- Get userID
- List clusters
- List userIDs
- Remove userID
- Search userID
- Need help? Ask a question to the Algolia Community or on Stack Overflow.
- Found a bug? You can open a GitHub issue.