Swift API clients

The Swift API clients let you interact with Algolia’s APIs from your Swift backend.

Install the library

All API clients are part of the algoliasearch-client-swift package, which you can add to your Package.swift file:

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let package = Package(
    // ...
    dependencies: [
        .package(url: "https://github.com/algolia/algoliasearch-client-swift.git", from: "9.6.0")
    ],
    targets: [
        .target(
            // ...
            dependencies: [
                .product(name: "Search", package: "algoliasearch-client-swift")
            ]
        )
    ]
)

Test your installation

To test your installation, create a new Swift project, for example, with swift package init --type executable and run a short program that adds a record to a test index, searches your index, and prints the results.

1. If you haven’t already, create an Algolia account.

2. Copy the following code into the Sources/main.swift. Replace ALGOLIA_APPLICATION_ID and ALGOLIA_API_KEY with values from your account. Make sure to use an API key with addObject and search permissions.

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   // File: main.swift
   import Search
   
   let appID = "ALGOLIA_APPLICATION_ID"
   // API key with `addObject` and `search` ACL
   let apiKey = "ALGOLIA_API_KEY"
   let indexName = "test-index"
   
   let client = try SearchClient(appID: appID, apiKey: apiKey)
   
   // Create a new record
   let record = ["objectID": "object-1", "name": "test-record"]
   
   // Add the record to an index
   let saveResp = try await client.saveObject(
       indexName: indexName,
       body: record
   )
   
   // Wait until indexing is done
   try await client.waitForTask(
       with: saveResp.taskID,
       in: indexName
   )
   
   // Search for 'test'
   let searchResp: SearchResponses<Hit> = try await client.search(
       searchMethodParams: SearchMethodParams(
           requests: [
               SearchQuery.searchForHits(
                   SearchForHits(
                       query: "test",
                       indexName: indexName
                   )
               )
           ]
       )
   )
   
   print(searchResp)
   

   In production, don’t include your credentials in your code. Use environment variables instead.

3. Run: swift run.

If the command is successful, you’ll see the API response.

Next steps

You can view your new index in the Algolia dashboard.