Algolia Docs Changelog

Version 3 of the A/B testing API is now available.

• Use v3 for new integrations and upgrades.
• Existing v2 integrations can remain on v2 and migrate when convenient.

References: REST API v3 and v2; separate API clients are available for each version.

Algolia’s no-code connector platform now has a connector for Supabase. Index your data and schedule regular updates without writing custom code.

Supabase connector

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.

Smart Groups documentation

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.

Collections documentation

Apply ETL transformations to clean and enrich your data when indexing your content with Algolia’s connectors.

Transform your data

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.

Crawler documentation

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.

All Algolia API clients have new major releases. We updated the API references to show code snippets in the new versions. For more information, see API clients, or check the new API reference, for example, for the Search API.

You can now test performing transformations on your source data before storing it in the destination.

Transformations

Algolia’s no-code connector platform now has connectors for your Elasticsearch instances and MySQL databases. Index your data and schedule regular updates without writing custom code.

Elasticsearch connector, MySQL connector

The Algolia Advanced Personalization Platform is now available in public beta. It leverages AI/ML in building user profiles that capture user intent, preferences and evolving interests. You can use these profiles to craft personalized experiences for your users as they use your website or app.

Get started with Advanced Personalization

InstantSearch.js and React InstantSearch now provide Recommend widgets!

• If you’re using Recommend JS, upgrade by following the step-by-step instructions in the migration guide.
• If you’re using Recommend React, upgrade by following the step-by-step instructions in the migration guide.

Starting with version 3.14.x Magento captures revenue data and conversions for both “Add to cart” and “Place order” events, giving you deeper insight into how Algolia is performing for your online store.

Algolia for Flutter released its first stable version.

Installation guide

Our latest recommender model, Looking Similar, is now available to all customers to provide visual recommendations to their users.

Get started with visual recommendations

Algolia’s cartridge now supports indexing Salesforce B2C content.

Since Shopify has blocked theme injection, Algolia’s Shopify integration has migrated to App Blocks.

Shopify Algolia configuration

The v2 indexing job system brings faster and more scalable end-to-end indexing, enhanced indexing monitoring and error-resilience, targeted jobs for pricing and inventory updates, partial record updates across all jobs (which enables multi-instance indexing) and atomic reindexing.
User guide, Upgrade guide

You can now use Algolia to index your BigCommerce stores.

Installation guide

With version 3.11.x of Algolia’s Magento extension, you can now use Merchandising Studio to promote products on both categories and search results.

You can now create and manage your Algolia Crawlers with the Algolia CLI. Run algolia crawler and check the available commands.

Reference

The Algolia Zendesk connector is now available in the Data Hub. Instead of using a custom integration, the Zendesk connector is now built on top of the Data hub platform. It’s available for all Algolia customers.

• If you’re already using the Zendesk integration, you have nothing to do. The integration continues to work as usual.
• If you want to set up a new Zendesk integration, you can now create it in the Data-Hub.

If you’re collecting user data with Tealium, you can now forward events to the Insights API with the new Algolia Insights connector.

Get started

The Algolia Flutter Helper library is now available as beta software. It introduces federated search and uses the Algolia Dart API client, which is covered by Algolia’s SLA.

Get started

After two years as an experimental library, React InstantSearch Hooks is now stable as the latest version of React InstantSearch!

• If you’re using React InstantSearch v6, upgrade by following the step-by-step instructions in the migration guide.
• If you’re already using React InstantSearch Hooks, update to the latest version by replacing your dependencies and a few deprecated APIs.

Algolia released a new major version of the integration for the Django framework. Upgrade guide

InstantSearch.js, React InstantSearch Hooks, Vue InstantSearch and Autocomplete now make it easier than ever to track user events. No need to install the search-insights library or set up a middleware or plugin, all you need to do now is setting the insights option to true.

• Send click and conversion events with InstantSearch.js
• Send click and conversion events with React InstantSearch
• Send click and conversion events with Vue InstantSearch
• Sending Algolia Insights events with Autocomplete

Algolia’s new Build plan increases the number of free records from 10,000 to one million. Additionally, the cost of search requests in the Grow plan has been reduced by 50%.

• Pricing plans
• How to upgrade to the latest pricing plan
• Plan service limits
• Pricing announcement

With the new connectors, Algolia can index your data from a JSON file you host on your servers with or without authentication.

• Get started

Version 3 of the Python API client adds support for Python versions 3.9 and later and drops support for Python 2.7.

• Update guide

You can now use Algolia to index your commercetools stores.

• Installation guide

The Algolia CLI version 1.3 includes new commands for managing your custom dictionaries, running partial updates on records, and performing batch indexing operations. The new algolia events tail command provides a near real-time view of Insights events sent from your app.

• Algolia CLI
• Manage dictionaries with the CLI
• Partial record updates with the CLI
• Batch indexing with the CLI

This integration synchronizes your help center articles with Algolia and replaces Zendesk’s built-in search.

• Installation and configuration

The Algolia for Flutter library makes building cross-platform search and discovery experiences easier than ever.

Get started with Flutter

With Query Categorization, you can predict to which category a query belongs. You can even automatically filter and boost your queries by the predicted category without extra code. Read more

The Algolia CLI lets you manage your Algolia resources from the command line without writing code. Read more

Our InstantSearch.js library now exposes a html function in every template. You can pass templates as HTML strings without cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, without additional libraries, and without a necessary build step. If you’re already using JSX, you can also return JSX templates.

Hogan.js templates are now deprecated and will be removed in the next major.

Read more about templating in InstantSearch.js.

These API clients are automatically generated from an Open API specification. Read more

With the Algolia CLI, you can manage your Algolia resources from the command line without writing code. Read more

We’re proud to announce the release of our Kotlin API client v2, the biggest change since its introduction. It adopts the best practices of modern Kotlin development and eases the integration of Algolia into your Kotlin project on any platform!

React InstantSearch Hooks now provides UI components to help you create search UIs even faster. You can now use well-thought-out, customizable widgets out of the box, and move on to Hooks for deeper control.

Our Autocomplete library now exposes a html function in every template. You can now pass templates as HTML strings without cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, without additional libraries, and without a necessary build step.

The development and maintenance of the Android API client has been stopped in favor of the Kotlin API client.

We’re excited to announce our new experimental React InstantSearch Hooks package. React hooks for InstantSearch is a long-awaited feature that lets you create rich search UIs with friendly and modern React primitives. This new library was developed on top of InstantSearch.js, a solid foundation that lets us implement features faster.

We’re thrilled to release version 1 of our Autocomplete library, which provides everything you need to build full-featured autocomplete experiences. Formerly known as Autocomplete.js, the v0 has been powering the autocomplete experience our Shopify and Magento integrations. The new major version already runs the search of the Algolia docs (you’re reading it!), the Tailwind CSS and Vue.js docs, as well as the frontend of our Netlify plugin.

Following Adobe, that has stopped support for Magento 1 on June 30 2020, we’ve decided to sunset our Magento 1 extension. We’re no longer developing new features for the extension, and only releasing critical security updates when necessary. This also means we’ve removed the documentation for the integration. You can still access an archive of the documentation for our Magento 1 extension.

We’re excited to present the newest major version of the Ruby API client! This new version adopts all the best practices we use in our other API clients, while still being super easy to get started with. You can upgrade now if you’re already using the Ruby API client, or start by installing the client.

We’re proud to announce the release of our Swift API client v8, the biggest change since its introduction. It adopts the best practices of modern Swift development and eases the integration of Algolia into your Swift project on any platform!

We just released our cartridges for you to use Algolia with your Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C websites! Have a look at our installation guide to get started.

We’re thrilled to announce the release of version 4 of our JavaScript API client. It’s faster, smaller, more flexible, and features the implementation of our common API client specification.

We’re happy to announce the release of version 4 of our Symfony integration! Head over to our upgrade guide to get started with this new version.

Another milestone for InstantSearch. We released version 4 for InstantSearch.js and version 6 for React InstantSearch!

Our custom web crawler, aptly named Crawler, is now publicly available as an add-on for Enterprise plans! We’ve added Crawler documentation and reference pages for the Crawler’s Configuration API and its REST API.

We’re happy to announce the release of new major versions for our InstantSearch iOS (v5) and InstantSearch Android (v2) libraries! You can read the old documentation on the legacy pages for InstantSearch iOS (v3) and InstantSearch Android (v1).

You can now find documentation for our Shopify integration in our main docs!

We released a voice search widget for all four InstantSearch web flavors: InstantSearch.js, React InstantSearch, Vue InstantSearch and Angular InstantSearch!

Another major update, this time for our Golang API client! Read the guide to upgrade to version 3.

We released version 3 of the Java API client! Read the upgrading guide to get started with this new version.

We’re proud to announce a new API client in our ever-growing ecosystem. You can now implement Algolia in your Android applications using Kotlin!

To help with your implementation, we’ve designed a full production checklist for you to consult before going live. It should guide you into building better search while avoiding common oversights.

We’re thrilled to announce the release of version 2 of our Python API client. It features the implementation of our common API client specification, the support of asynchronous environments, waitable response objects, and much more.

We’ve expanded our analytics and Personalization sections to meet the needs of our technical and non-technical users. These features have evolved so much in the past year that we’ve fully restructured the content to help you best to implement them.

We’ve updated our favicon so that you can easily find the documentation when you have multiple tabs opened! Isn’t it pretty?

On top of that, we’ve improved performance by redoing the website’s foundation and cutting our JavaScript by 20%!

Our Magento 1 and Magento 2 integrations, as well as our WordPress tutorial, are now part of our main docs!

You can now restore a deleted API key with our API clients.

We’ve released version 6 of our C# API client! Read the upgrade guide to get started with the new version.

Additionally, we’ve added documentation for Angular InstantSearch into our main docs.

We rewrote most of our Laravel Scout documentation as part of the release of Scout Extended.

Huge release! We’ve redesigned our docs and rewritten much of the content. We’ve centered our docs around use cases, so they’re directly relevant to what you want to do with Algolia. You should find overviews with more examples, and many more how-to and in-depth guides.

Additionally, we’ve added InstantSearch into our main docs, making our UI framework central to the Algolia experience.

Personalization lets you tailor the search experience for each user. Read the guides and API reference.

We’ve created this change log so you can follow our documentation updates.