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If you’re using Twilio Segment to track user interactions on your website or app, you can set up Algolia as a destination to forward click and conversion events.
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To integrating Algolia with Segment:
  1. Enable the Algolia destination in Segment.
  2. Enable click analytics for your searches.
  3. Identify users.
  4. Augment your Segment events with Algolia-related data.

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Enable the Algolia destination in Segment

To add the Algolia destination to Segment, follow these steps:
  1. Sign in to your Segment web app and select the workspace you want to work in.
  2. Select the source you want to set up and click Add Destination.
Add a destination to a source
  1. Search for the Algolia destination and select it to add it.
Add the Algolia destination
  1. Sign in to your Algolia account and select the application you want to configure.
  2. Copy your application ID and search API key from the dashboard and paste it into Segment.
Add your Algolia credentials For more information about adding destinations, see:

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Enable click analytics for your searches

To relate click and conversion events to searches, Algolia needs a query ID. To get the queryID parameter for a search, set the clickAnalytics parameter to true: 
index
  .search("YourSearchQuery", {
    userToken: "user-1",
    clickAnalytics: true,
  })
  .then(({ hits, queryID }) => {
    console.log(hits, queryID);
  });

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Identify users

If you use Segment’s analytics.identify() function to identify users, use the same identifier for Algolia by passing it as the userToken parameter with your search. For example, if you want to use Personalization: 
index
  .search("YourSearchQuery", {
    userToken: "user-1",
    enablePersonalization: true,
  })
  .then(({ hits }) => {
    console.log(hits);
  });
Algolia requires these properties that aren’t part of the regular Segment specifications:
PropertyTypeRequired?
indexstringYes
eventTypevalue: 'view', 'click', or 'conversion'Yes
eventSubtypevalue: 'addToCart' or 'purchase' (only applicable to 'conversion' events)No
queryIDstringNo
objectIDsstring[] or objectID: stringNo
positionsnumber[] or position: numberNo
filtersArray<{ type: string; value: string; }> or string[] (${type}:${value}—for example, brand:apple)No
objectDataSee the Insights API reference for the objectData parameter (only applicable to 'addToCart' and 'purchase' events)No
For more information, see the Insights API reference. You can get these properties with the following code: 
index
  .search("query", {
    userToken: "user-1",
  })
  .then(({ hits, queryID, hitsPerPage, page }) => {
    hits.map((hit, index) => {
      const position = index + 1 + page * hitsPerPage;
      const objectID = hit.objectID;
    });
  });
The following code is an example of a click event tracked with Segment that includes all the necessary Algolia-related properties:
JavaScript
analytics.track("Product Clicked", {
  product_id: "507f1f77bcf86cd799439011",
  sku: "G-32",
  category: "Games",
  name: "Monopoly: 3rd Edition",
  brand: "Hasbro",
  variant: "200 pieces",
  price: 18.99,
  quantity: 1,
  coupon: "MAYDEALS",
  position: 3,
  url: "https://www.example.com/product/path",
  image_url: "https://www.example.com/product/path.jpg",
  // Algolia-related properties
  index: "my-algolia-index", 
  eventType: "click", 
  queryID: "fd0bbaadc287937s7671d00f1d053b88", 
  objectID: "131280270", 
});
Refer to Segment’s Algolia Insights destination documentation for details on which Segment events are supported by default.

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Debug events with Segment

If you have administrator permissions for your Segment source, you can send test events. To do this, select your source and click Validate. Select Algolia Insights as the destination. Check events in the Segment app Now, you can send a test event using the Event builder or JSON editor. Send a test event to the Algolia Insights destination A green box with the status “200 OK” means that Segment successfully sent a test event to the Algolia Insights destination. To check, if the event delivery was successful, go to the Event Delivery tab. For example, sending an event with a wrong query ID shows a delivery issue. To check if Algolia receives your events correctly, go to the Events Debugger in the Algolia dashboard.