How would you recommend integrating craft with Algolia

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Has anyone had experience integrating craft with algolia: https://www.algolia.com for realtime search of craft entries.

It seems like there are a few potential approaches with their Php and Js libraries. Does anyone recommend a particular approach or best practice for integrating a service like this with Craft.

Is this purely for the front-end? i.e. not replace the default search capabilities of the CP. — Brad Bell, Sep 16 '15 at 20:55

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 23 '15 at 10:22

Disclaimer : I'm the dev of the SearchPlus plugin

The SearchPlus plugin by SquareBit (currently in private beta) integrates directly with Algolia and handles all the index population and updates.

There's also a few helpers for integrating on the front-end.

All told - you should be able to just drop the plugin onto the site, configure your indexes and start a population action, drop a bit of js on the front-end and you're done.

Drop me a line and I'll get you on the beta.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 17 '15 at 19:34

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Seems like a pretty straight forward integration with a Craft plugin, then.

They've already got a PHP client up on packagist and what looks to be pretty extensive documentation how to use it.

answered Sep 17 '15 at 19:34

Brad Bell

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 14 '18 at 01:02

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There is an open-source Craft 2.x plugin for Algolia:
https://github.com/joshuabaker/craft-algolia

I haven't used it, but it would be a good place to start.

answered Jun 14 '18 at 01:02

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