What is Algolia
Algolia empowers modern developers to build world class search and discovery experiences without any DevOps.
Libraries with every major language and framework make it easy to enrich your users' experiences.
API-first search and discovery for your .NET applications.
Algolia C# .NET client library
- Handles things like network retry, record batching, and zero downtime reindexing.
- Production-ready
- Open source and maintained by Algolia
Features
- Gives API access to all Algolia functionality, settings, advanced features, and ML/AI products
- Installation options: .NET CLI, Nuget Package Manager Console, Nuget.org
- Every request and response are typed
- POCOs
- Background retry strategy to ensure uptime
- Batching via iterators to optimize number of network calls
- Zero downtime reindexing feature
- Injectable HTTP client
- Asynchronous and synchronous methods to interact with Algolia's API
Version
- .NET Standard 1.3 to .NET Standard 2.1,
- .NET Core 1.0 to .NET Core 3.0,
- .NET Framework 4.5 to .NET Framework 4.7.1
- .NET API for C# and F#
- Supports ASP.NET, MVC, WebAPI
Related Integrations
- InstantSearch for React, Vue, Angular, vanilla
- Autocomplete
Get started
Install (get a free account here)
1dotnet add package Algolia.Search
Index
1List<Contact> contacts = new List<Contact> 2{ 3 new Contact { ObjectID = "myID1", Firstname = "Jimmie", Lastname = "Barninger" }, 4 new Contact { ObjectID = "myID2", Firstname = "Warren", Lastname = "Speach" } 5}; 6 7index.SaveObjects(contacts); 8 9// Asynchronous 10await index.SaveObjectsAsync(contacts);
Search
1SearchIndex index = client.SearchIndex("contacts"); 2 3// Synchronous 4var result = index.Search<Contact>(new Query("query string")); 5 6// Synchronous with settings 7var result = index.Search<Contact>(new Query("query string") 8{ 9 AttributesToRetrieve = new List<string> { "firstname", "lastname" } 10 HitsPerPage = 50 11}); 12 13// Asynchronous 14var result = await index.SearchAsync<Contact>(new Query("query string")); 15 16// Asynchronous with settings 17var result = await index.SearchAsync<Contact>(new Query("query string") 18{ 19 AttributesToRetrieve = new List<string> { "firstname", "lastname" } 20 HitsPerPage = 50 21});
