Algolia

Typed Algolia Search API client for Deno, Bun, Node.js and Cloudflare Workers. Search an index, save, fetch, delete and browse records, and wait for indexing tasks to finish. A lightweight, Web-API-only alternative to the official algoliasearch SDK for the endpoints it covers.

Overview

Algolia is a hosted search-as-a-service: you push JSON records into a named "index," and Algolia serves fast, typo-tolerant, ranked search over them. This connect covers the core index-record lifecycle — search, saveObject, getObject, deleteObject, browseObjects (a cursor-based full scan, distinct from search), and waitTask (polling an indexing operation to confirm it's live) — against a single index per call.

Algolia authenticates every request with two headers derived from your account: an Application ID and an API key. Those same two values also determine which of Algolia's two hostnames a request goes to — see docs/Algolia-API.md for the full "dual base URL" mechanism.

import { Algolia } from '@tundraconnect/algolia';

const client = new Algolia({
  auth: {
    type: 'CUSTOM',
    applicationId: 'YOUR_APP_ID',
    apiKey: 'YOUR_ADMIN_API_KEY',
  },
});

const results = await client.search('products', { query: 'red shoes' });
console.log(results.nbHits, results.hits.map((h) => h.objectID));

Testing your code

Your tests don't need to fake HTTP. Have your code take a Algolia instance and pass in a stand-in that returns the shapes from @tundraconnect/algolia/schemas or throws a real AlgoliaError:

import { AlgoliaError } from '@tundraconnect/algolia/errors';

const outage = new AlgoliaError('SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE', { status: 503 });
console.log(outage.code);

To exercise the client itself against a fake transport, subclass it and reassign the protected _fetch.

Documentation

Topic	Description
API	Client configuration and endpoint methods
Errors	Error codes and diagnostic metadata
Schemas	Public Guardian schemas and inferred types

Upstream

• Algolia REST API reference
• Create an Algolia account

Installation

Deno:

deno add jsr:@tundraconnect/algolia

Bun:

bunx jsr add @tundraconnect/algolia

Node.js:

npx jsr add @tundraconnect/algolia

Quick Start

import { Algolia } from '@tundraconnect/algolia';

const client = new Algolia({
  auth: {
    type: 'CUSTOM',
    applicationId: 'YOUR_APP_ID',
    apiKey: 'YOUR_ADMIN_API_KEY',
  },
});

// Save a record — indexing is asynchronous, so wait for it to publish
// before relying on it showing up in search.
const saved = await client.saveObject('products', {
  name: 'Blue socks',
  price: 4.5,
});
await client.waitTask('products', saved.taskID);

// Search
const results = await client.search('products', {
  query: 'socks',
  hitsPerPage: 10,
});
console.log(results.hits[0]?.objectID);

// Fetch, then delete, a single record by id
const object = await client.getObject('products', saved.objectID);
const deleted = await client.deleteObject('products', object.objectID);
await client.waitTask('products', deleted.taskID);

// Scan an entire index page by page
let cursor: string | undefined;
do {
  const page = await client.browseObjects('products', { cursor });
  for (const hit of page.hits) console.log(hit.objectID);
  cursor = page.cursor;
} while (cursor);

License

MIT. Part of Tundra Connect, typed vendor API clients for Deno, Bun, Node.js and Cloudflare Workers.