payload-plugin-algolia

PayloadCMS plugin that syncs collections with Algolia search

Requires Payload 3.x (payload peer dependency).

Installation

npm i payload-plugin-algolia

Usage

At a minimum, the plugin requires Algolia credentials and a list of enabled collections.

// payload.config.ts

import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
import { AlgoliaSearchPlugin } from 'payload-plugin-algolia'
import Pages from './collections/Pages'
import Posts from './collections/Posts'

export default buildConfig({
  collections: [Pages, Posts],
  plugins: [
    AlgoliaSearchPlugin({
      algolia: {
        appId: process.env.ALGOLIA_APP_ID,
        apiKey: process.env.ALGOLIA_ADMIN_API_KEY,
        index: process.env.ALGOLIA_INDEX,
      },
      collections: ['pages', 'posts'],
    }),
  ],
  // ...more config
})

Options

generateSearchAttributes

By default, the plugin will pass the entire document through to Algolia, with two appended keys:

• objectID: format ${collection}:${id} eg pages:1
• collection: the collection slug

You can modify search attributes by providing a custom generateSearchAttributes function:

import { type GenerateSearchAttributes } from 'payload-plugin-algolia'

interface PageRecord {
  title: string
  text: string
}

interface PostRecord extends PageRecord {
  image: string
}

const generateSearchAttributes: GenerateSearchAttributes<PageRecord | PostRecord> = async ({
  doc,
  collection,
  req: { payload },
}) => {
  switch (collection.slug) {
    case 'posts': {
      if (doc.featured_image) {
        const { url } = await payload.findByID({
          collection: 'media',
          id: doc.featured_image as number,
        })

        return {
          ...doc,
          image: url,
        }
      }

      return doc
    }
    default:
      return doc
  }
}

waitForHook

Boolean, default = false

Set to true to wait for algolia set / delete operations during the collection hooks.

Notes

The current scope of the plugin is quite limited. PRs welcome!

Drafts

Drafts are not indexed. If a document is unpublished, it gets removed from search results. Otherwise, draft updates to a published document have no effect.

Globals

Globals are not currently supported for indexing.

Algolia search config

The internal Algolia client accepts all options. Beyond that, the rest of the setup for a typical Algolia configuration is outside the scope of the plugin (setting search attributes and facets, etc).

Contributing

After cloning the repo and installing dependencies, run pnpm exec simple-git-hooks to setup automatic pre-commit linting.