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Algolia Search

Algolia Search

Integrate lightning fast intelligent search into your websites and apps using Algolia and Agility CMS

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Algolia Search

Integration Overview

Algolia search enables next generation apps with APIs that deliver relevant content in milliseconds. While Agility CMS allows you to manage and publish content with ease, Algolia helps your users find the content they are looking for.

What is Algolia?

Algolia is an AI-powered search and discovery platform allowing you to create cutting-edge customer experiences for your ecommerce website and mobile apps.

Algolia claims a number of advantages for their approach, including speed of response from searching a single site rather than the entire web. Moreover, as Algolia's search can be tailored to the client site, its known structure and its metadata facets, the search offered can be smarter and more site-specific than a generalised web text search. This improves the relevance of search results as searching may take the semantics of site content into account.

Algolia emphasizes their ability to provide instantaneous, multi-platform and typo-tolerant features. Algolia's software is closed source. They do however contribute to the open source community to an extent.

What is Algolia search API?

The Search API is the core of Algolia. Around it, we've built a complete search ecosystem, including eleven API clients, six front-end libraries, platform and framework integrations, a full-featured dashboard, and more. This page documents the Algolia Search REST API.

Why use this integration?

  • Improved competitiveness

    Implement a new digital experience in days instead of months or iterate on offerings without impacting your backend.

  • True omnichannel capability

    Roll out and manage multiple consistent experiences across different brands, divisions and portfolios from one platform.

  • Improved business results

    Get relevant content to the right person in milliseconds. Run continuous optimizations to generate higher conversions across any industry.

Steps for Implementation

  1. 1

    Connect the Frontend Search UI

    Algolia provides SDKs to simplify how you build a search input and handle search results with autocomplete, highlighting and more.
  2. 2

    Connect your Index to Agility

    You'll need to set up a webhook in Agility to notify your API endpoint to index content when it has been published.
  3. 3

    Index your Content

    You'll need to determine what content you want to index in Algolia.
  4. 4

    Sign up for Agility & Algolia

    You must have an Agility Instance and an Algolia account in order for Algolia to index your content and provide search results.

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