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DocSearch

The easiest way to add search to your documentation – for free.

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DocSearch crawls your documentation, pushes the content to an Algolia index and provides a dropdown search experience on your website.

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Usage

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JavaScript

Installation

yarn add @docsearch/js@4
# or
npm install @docsearch/js@4

If you don’t want to use a package manager, you can use a standalone endpoint:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@docsearch/js@4"></script>

Get started

To get started, you need a container for your DocSearch component to go in. If you don’t have one already, you can insert one into your markup:

<div id="docsearch"></div>

Then, insert DocSearch into it by calling the docsearch function and providing the container. It can be a CSS selector or an Element.

Make sure to provide a container (for example, a div), not an input. DocSearch generates a fully accessible search box for you.

import docsearch from '@docsearch/js';

import '@docsearch/css';

docsearch({
  container: '#docsearch',
  appId: 'YOUR_APP_ID',
  indexName: 'YOUR_INDEX_NAME',
  apiKey: 'YOUR_SEARCH_API_KEY',
});

React

Installation

yarn add @docsearch/react@4
# or
npm install @docsearch/react@4

If you don’t want to use a package manager, you can use a standalone endpoint:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@docsearch/react@4"></script>

Get started

DocSearch generates a fully accessible search box for you.

import { DocSearch } from '@docsearch/react';

import '@docsearch/css';

function App() {
  return (
    <DocSearch
      appId="YOUR_APP_ID"
      apiKey="YOUR_SEARCH_API_KEY"
      indices=["YOUR_ALGOLIA_INDEX"]
    />
  );
}

export default App;

Styling

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DocSearch is made of the following repositories:

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DocSearch is used by Bootstrap, Cheerio, Element Plus, Authelia, MDX, VitePress and many more.

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License

MIT

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