This plugin is deprecated and no longer maintained by Algolia.

Migrating from algoliasearch-jekyll

If you’re using the previous algoliasearch-jekyll gem, and would like to migrate to the new jekyll-algolia, this guide will help you through the migration process.

Renaming

Most of the changes you’ll have to do to migrate is to rename configuration settings.

The most obvious one being that the gem is now called jekyll-algolia and not algoliasearch-jekyll. You should update your Gemfile to add the jekyll-algolia gem to the :jekyll_plugin group, like this:

source 'https://rubygems.org' gem 'jekyll', '~> 3.6' group :jekyll_plugins do gem 'jekyll-algolia' end

Note that you no longer need to add the plugin to the list of plugins in your _config.yml, this is now taken care of at the Gemfile level. The other important change is that the new version requires at least Ruby 2.3 and Jekyll 3.6 to work.

The command to run the plugin has been simplified from jekyll algolia push to jekyll algolia.

Options

All the previous option and behaviors are still available, but their names have been changed:

excluded_files has been renamed to files_to_exclude, record_css_selector to nodes_to_index and allowed_extensions to extensions_to_index. Note that for the last one, it now expects a comma-separated list of extensions.

The lazy_update option does not exist anymore. The new indexing mode is equal to lazy_update: true. Only records that changed between the current build and the previous one will be updated, and it will even be done in an atomic way (all in one go).

Hooks

All three hooks (custom_hook_excluded_file?, custom_hook_each and custom_hook_all) are still here, but they have been renamed to should_be_excluded?, before_indexing_each and before_indexing_all.

They all have the same behavior and expect the same arguments as before, but should now extend the Jekyll::Algolia::Hooks module. It means that the file you used to define them should now look like this:

module Jekyll module Algolia module Hooks # Add your hooks here end end end

You can find the complete documentation on the dedicated page.

Records

Records extracted from Jekyll have the same structure as before, except that the text key has been renamed to content.

Here is an example of a record extracted by the plugin:

{ "objectID": "e2dd8dd1eaaf961baa6da4de309628e9", "title": "New experimental version of Hacker News Search built with Algolia", "type": "post", "url": "/2015/01/12/try-new-experimental-version-hn-search.html", "date": 1421017200, "excerpt_html": "<p>Exactly a year ago, we began to power […]</p>", "excerpt_text": "Exactly a year ago, we began to power […]", "slug": "try-new-experimental-version-hn-search", "html": "<p>We've learned a lot from your comments […]</p>", "content": "We've learned a lot from your comments […]", "headings": [ "Applying more UI best practices", "Focus on readability" ], "anchor": "focus-on-readability", "custom_ranking": { "position": 8, "heading": 70 } }

Need more help?

If you need more help migrating from the previous plugin to this new version, you can file an issue on the GitHub repo and we’ll do our best to help you.