What is Algolia?
Algolia is a hosted search engine, offering full-text, numerical, and faceted search, capable of delivering real-time results from the first keystroke. Algolia's powerful API lets you quickly and seamlessly implement search within your websites and mobile applications. Our search API powers billions of queries for thousands of companies every month, delivering relevant results in under 100ms anywhere in the world.
What's new in the docs
| Apr 30, 2025 | Smart Groups generally available |
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Smart Groups enables the placement of groups of items that match certain criteria at specific positions in your results. Use cases include highlighting sponsored items, promoting new or clearance products, or creating visually appealing result groupings. |
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| Mar 24, 2025 | Collections generally available |
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Collections enable business users to organize and showcase content beyond fixed categories. You can create dynamic and hand-picked assortments that follow specific themes and update them based on set conditions. |
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| Dec 11, 2024 | Data transformations generally available |
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Apply ETL transformations to clean and enrich your data when indexing your content with Algolia’s connectors. |
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| Oct 02, 2024 | The next generation of the Algolia Crawler |
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It’s now even easier to verify your domain and configure your crawler. Four new methods have been added and the process has been simplified for first-time users with a no-code visual interface for common configurations. The Crawler update also includes improved data ingestion for popular JSON-LD formats like article and product schemas. |
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| Aug 19, 2024 | Carousel layout for Recommend widgets in InstantSearch |
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InstantSearch.js and React InstantSearch now provide a carousel layout to use with any of the Recommend widgets. Check the Recommend widgets API reference for examples and usage. |
Discover Algolia
Getting started
A technical and non-technical introduction to the features and ecosystem of Algolia, and a step-by-step tutorial to get you up and running in minutes.
Sending and managing data
A full guide on how to prepare, send, and update your data, so you get relevant results right away, along with guidance on how to manage your indices and application environment.
Managing results
Follow our guides to configure relevance, so your search experience always yields the best results. Make the most of your index settings and query parameters.
Building Search UI
Everything you need to know about querying your data, with a full guide on InstantSearch for JS, React, Vue, iOs, and Android.
Sending events
Send user events to the Insights API to enable Analytics and Algolia AI features.
Search analytics
Get insights into what your users search for and what they can't find. Use these insights to optimize your settings.
Personalization
Learn how you can personalize each of your individual users' search experience.
A/B testing
Test the effect of different settings on click, conversion, and revenue metrics with real user traffic.
Algolia AI
Learn how you can use our AI-driven features to optimize your users' search experience.
Going to production
Make sure you're on the right track and didn't forget anything before going to production.
Scaling
Discover the infrastructure that powers our engine.
Security
We take security seriously. Take some time to check our security basics and recommendations, including API keys, user restrictions, and other best practices.
Solutions
Find solutions to specific problems, discover practical examples of what Algolia can do, and find inspiration for your search experience.
Billing
Manage your subscription and how you'd like to pay for Algolia.
