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Send data to Algolia

Algolia doesn’t search directly into your own data source. For data to be searchable, you need to send it to Algolia’s servers.

This happens right after retrieving your data from your data source and reformatting it. Once your data is ready, you can push it to Algolia using the saveObjects method.

Required credentials​

To push data to Algolia, you need an Application ID and a valid API key with the right access level. You can find them and create new ones in the API keys page.

Setting up the API client​

Make sure to also read the Installation page.

// for the default version
import { algoliasearch } from '@experimental-api-clients-automation/algoliasearch';

// you can also import the lite version, with search only versions
// import { algoliasearch } from '@experimental-api-clients-automation/algoliasearch-lite';

const client = algoliasearch('<YOUR_APP_ID>', '<YOUR_API_KEY>');

Fetching your data​

Before sending anything to Algolia, you need to retrieve your data. You can do this in several ways, in our case we will pick it from the source code directly.

const records = [{ name: 'Tom Cruise' }, { name: 'Scarlett Johansson' }];

client.saveObject({
  indexName: '<YOUR_INDEX_NAME>',
  // Accepts a free form `Record<string, any>` object.
  body: records,
});