Algolia CLI / Commands

Manage your indices’ objects.

algolia objects browse

Usage
algolia objects browse <index> [flags]

Browse the index objects.

Examples

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# Browse the objects from the "MOVIES" index
$ algolia objects browse MOVIES

# Browse the objects from the "MOVIES" index and select which attributes to retrieve
$ algolia objects browse MOVIES --attributesToRetrieve title,overview

# Browse the objects from the "MOVIES" index with filters
$ algolia objects browse MOVIES --filters "genres:Drama"

# Browse the objects from the "MOVIES" and export the results to a new line delimited JSON (ndjson) file
$ algolia objects browse MOVIES > movies.ndjson

Advanced

--attributeCriteriaComputedByMinProximity

Whether the best matching attribute should be determined by minimum proximity.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/attributeCriteriaComputedByMinProximity/

--distinct

Determines how many records of a group are included in the search results.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/distinct/

--enableABTest

Whether to enable A/B testing for this search.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/enableABTest/

--getRankingInfo

Whether the search response should include detailed ranking information.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/getRankingInfo/

--maxFacetHits

Maximum number of facet values to return when searching for facet values.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/maxFacetHits/

--minProximity

Minimum proximity score for two matching words.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/minProximity/

--percentileComputation

Whether to include this search when calculating processing-time percentiles.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/percentileComputation/

--renderingContent

Extra data that can be used in the search UI.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/renderingContent/

--responseFields

Properties to include in the API response of search and browse requests.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/responseFields/

--synonyms

Whether to take into account an index’s synonyms for this search.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/synonyms/

Analytics

--analytics

Whether this search will be included in Analytics.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/analytics/

--analyticsTags

Tags to apply to the query for segmenting analytics data.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/analyticsTags/

--clickAnalytics

Whether to include a queryID attribute in the response.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/clickAnalytics/

Attributes

--attributesToRetrieve

Attributes to include in the API response.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/attributesToRetrieve/

Faceting

--facetingAfterDistinct

Whether faceting should be applied after deduplication with distinct.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/facetingAfterDistinct/

--facets

Facets for which to retrieve facet values that match the search criteria and the number of matching facet values.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/facets/

--maxValuesPerFacet

Maximum number of facet values to return for each facet.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/maxValuesPerFacet/

--sortFacetValuesBy

Order in which to retrieve facet values.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/sortFacetValuesBy/

Filtering

--enableReRanking

Whether this search will use Dynamic Re-Ranking.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/enableReRanking/

--facetFilters

Filter the search by facet values, so that only records with the same facet values are retrieved.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/facetFilters/

--filters

Filter expression to only include items that match the filter criteria in the response.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/filters/

--numericFilters

Filter by numeric facets.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/numericFilters/

--optionalFilters

Filters to promote or demote records in the search results.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/optionalFilters/

--restrictSearchableAttributes

Restricts a search to a subset of your searchable attributes.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/restrictSearchableAttributes/

--sumOrFiltersScores

Whether to sum all filter scores.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/sumOrFiltersScores/

--tagFilters

Filter the search by values of the special _tags attribute.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/tagFilters/

--aroundLatLng

Coordinates for the center of a circle, expressed as a comma-separated string of latitude and longitude.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/aroundLatLng/

--aroundLatLngViaIP

Whether to obtain the coordinates from the request’s IP address.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/aroundLatLngViaIP/

--aroundPrecision

Precision of a coordinate-based search in meters to group results with similar distances.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/aroundPrecision/

--aroundRadius

Maximum radius for a search around a central location.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/aroundRadius/

--minimumAroundRadius

Minimum radius (in meters) for a search around a location when aroundRadius isn’t set.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/minimumAroundRadius/

Highlighting and Snippeting

--attributesToHighlight

Attributes to highlight.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/attributesToHighlight/

--attributesToSnippet

Attributes for which to enable snippets.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/attributesToSnippet/

--highlightPostTag

HTML tag to insert after the highlighted parts in all highlighted results and snippets.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/highlightPostTag/

--highlightPreTag

HTML tag to insert before the highlighted parts in all highlighted results and snippets.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/highlightPreTag/

--replaceSynonymsInHighlight

Whether to replace a highlighted word with the matched synonym.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/replaceSynonymsInHighlight/

--restrictHighlightAndSnippetArrays

Whether to restrict highlighting and snippeting to items that at least partially matched the search query.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/restrictHighlightAndSnippetArrays/

--snippetEllipsisText

String used as an ellipsis indicator when a snippet is truncated.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/snippetEllipsisText/

Languages

--decompoundQuery

Whether to split compound words into their building blocks.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/decompoundQuery/

--ignorePlurals

Treat singular, plurals, and other forms of declensions as equivalent.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/ignorePlurals/

--keepDiacriticsOnCharacters

Characters for which diacritics should be preserved.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/keepDiacriticsOnCharacters/

--naturalLanguages

ISO language codes that adjust settings that are useful for processing natural language queries (as opposed to keyword searches).
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/naturalLanguages/

--queryLanguages

Languages for language-specific query processing steps such as plurals, stop-word removal, and word-detection dictionaries.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/queryLanguages/

--removeStopWords

Removes stop words from the search query.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/removeStopWords/

Other flags

--reRankingApplyFilter

Restrict Dynamic Re-Ranking to records that match these filters.

--semanticSearch

Settings for the semantic search part of NeuralSearch.

Output formatting flags

--allow-missing-template-keys

If true, ignore any errors in templates when a field or map key is missing in the template. Only applies to golang and jsonpath output formats.

-o, --output

Output format. One of: (json, jsonpath, jsonpath-as-json, jsonpath-file).

--template

Template string or path to template file to use when –output=jsonpath, –output=jsonpath-file.

Pagination

--hitsPerPage

Number of hits per page.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/hitsPerPage/

--length

Number of hits to retrieve (used in combination with offset).
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/length/

--offset

Position of the first hit to retrieve.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/offset/

--page

Page of search results to retrieve.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/page/

Personalization

--enablePersonalization

Indicates whether Personalization is enabled.

--personalizationImpact

Defines how much Personalization affects results.

--userToken

Unique pseudonymous or anonymous user identifier.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/userToken/

Query strategy

--advancedSyntax

Whether to support phrase matching and excluding words from search queries.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/advancedSyntax/

--advancedSyntaxFeatures

Advanced search syntax features you want to support.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/advancedSyntaxFeatures/

--alternativesAsExact

Alternatives of query words that should be considered as exact matches by the Exact ranking criterion.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/alternativesAsExact/

--disableExactOnAttributes

Searchable attributes for which you want to turn off the Exact ranking criterion.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/disableExactOnAttributes/

--exactOnSingleWordQuery

Determines how the Exact ranking criterion is computed when the search query has only one word. One of: attribute, none, word.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/exactOnSingleWordQuery/

--mode

Search mode the index will use to query for results. One of: neuralSearch, keywordSearch.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/mode/

--optionalWords

Words that should be considered optional when found in the query.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/optionalWords/

--queryType

Determines if and how query words are interpreted as prefixes. One of: prefixLast, prefixAll, prefixNone.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/queryType/

--removeWordsIfNoResults

Strategy for removing words from the query when it doesn’t return any results. One of: none, lastWords, firstWords, allOptional.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/removeWordsIfNoResults/

Ranking

--customRanking

Attributes to use as custom ranking.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/customRanking/

--ranking

Determines the order in which Algolia returns your results.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/ranking/

--relevancyStrictness

Relevancy threshold below which less relevant results aren’t included in the results.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/relevancyStrictness/

Rules

--enableRules

Whether to enable rules.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/enableRules/

--ruleContexts

Assigns a rule context to the search query.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/ruleContexts/

--query

Search query.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/query/

--similarQuery

Keywords to be used instead of the search query to conduct a more broader search.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/similarQuery/

Typos

--allowTyposOnNumericTokens

Whether to allow typos on numbers in the search query.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/allowTyposOnNumericTokens/

--disableTypoToleranceOnAttributes

Attributes for which you want to turn off typo tolerance.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/disableTypoToleranceOnAttributes/

--minWordSizefor1Typo

Minimum number of characters a word in the search query must contain to accept matches with one typo.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/minWordSizefor1Typo/

--minWordSizefor2Typos

Minimum number of characters a word in the search query must contain to accept matches with two typos.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/minWordSizefor2Typos/

--typoTolerance

Whether typo tolerance is enabled and how it is applied.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/typoTolerance/

algolia objects delete

Usage
algolia objects delete <index> [--object-ids <object-ids> | --filters  <filters>...] [--confirm] [--wait] [flags]

Delete objects from an index.

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# Delete one single object with the ID "1" from the "MOVIES" index
$ algolia objects delete MOVIES --object-ids 1

# Delete multiple objects with the IDs "1" and "2" from the "MOVIES" index
$ algolia objects delete MOVIES --object-ids 1,2

# Delete all objects matching the filters "type:Scripted" from the "MOVIES" index
$ algolia objects delete MOVIES --filters "type:Scripted" --confirm

Filtering

--facetFilters

Filter the search by facet values, so that only records with the same facet values are retrieved.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/facetFilters/

--filters

Filter expression to only include items that match the filter criteria in the response.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/filters/

--numericFilters

Filter by numeric facets.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/numericFilters/

--tagFilters

Filter the search by values of the special _tags attribute.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/tagFilters/

--aroundLatLng

Coordinates for the center of a circle, expressed as a comma-separated string of latitude and longitude.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/aroundLatLng/

--aroundRadius

Maximum radius for a search around a central location.
See: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-parameters/aroundRadius/

Other flags

-y, --confirm

skip confirmation prompt

--object-ids

Object IDs to delete

--wait

wait for all the operations to complete before returning

algolia objects import

Usage
algolia objects import <index> -F <file> [flags]

Import objects to the specified index.

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# Import objects from the "data.ndjson" file to the "MOVIES" index
$ algolia objects import MOVIES -F data.ndjson

# Import objects from the standard input to the "MOVIES" index
$ cat data.ndjson | algolia objects import MOVIES -F -

# Browse the objects in the "SERIES" index and import them to the "MOVIES" index
$ algolia objects browse SERIES | algolia objects import MOVIES -F -

Flags

--auto-generate-object-id-if-not-exist

Automatically generate object ID if not exist

-b, --batch-size

Specify the upload batch size

-F, --file

Read records to import from file (use “-“ to read from standard input)

algolia objects operations

Usage
algolia objects operations -F <file> [--wait] [--continue-on-errors] [flags]

Perform several indexing operations.

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# Batch operations from the "operations.ndjson" file
$ algolia objects operations -F operations.ndjson

Flags

-C, --continue-on-error

Continue processing operations even if some operations are invalid.

-F, --file

The file to read the indexing operations from (use “-“ to read from standard input)

-w, --wait

Wait for the indexing operation(s) to complete before returning.

algolia objects update

Usage
algolia objects update <index> -F <file> [--create-if-not-exists] [--wait] [--continue-on-error] [flags]

Update objects from a file to the specified index.

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# Update objects from the "objects.ndjson" file to the "MOVIES" index
$ algolia objects update MOVIES -F objects.ndjson

# Update objects from the "objects.ndjson" file to the "MOVIES" index and create the objects if they don't exist
$ algolia objects update MOVIES -F objects.ndjson --create-if-not-exists

# Update objects from the "objects.ndjson" file to the "MOVIES" index and wait for the operation to complete
$ algolia objects update MOVIES -F objects.ndjson --wait

# Update objects from the "objects.ndjson" file to the "MOVIES" index and continue updating objects even if some objects are invalid
$ algolia objects update MOVIES -F objects.ndjson --continue-on-error

Flags

-C, --continue-on-error

Continue updating objects even if some objects are invalid.

-c, --create-if-not-exists

If provided, updating a nonexistent object will create a new object with the objectID and the attributes defined in the object

-F, --file

Read objects to update from file (use “-“ to read from standard input)

-w, --wait

Wait for the operation to complete before returning

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