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Config templates

To help you create the best search experience for your users, we provide config templates for multiple websites generators. If you'd like to add a new template to our list, or believe we should update an existing one, please send us an email or open a pull request

From the Crawler UI​

Templates are available when you create a new Crawler. They will automatically be filled with your website URL, Algolia credentials and index name.

Algolia Crawler creation page

Docusaurus v1 template​

docusaurus-v1.js
new Crawler({
  appId: 'YOUR_APP_ID',
  apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
  rateLimit: 8,
  startUrls: [
    'https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/docs/',
    'https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/',
    'https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/blog/',
  ],
  sitemaps: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/sitemap.xml'],
  ignoreCanonicalTo: false,
  discoveryPatterns: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/**'],
  actions: [
    {
      indexName: 'YOUR_INDEX_NAME',
      pathsToMatch: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/docs/**'],
      recordExtractor: ({ $, helpers }) => {
        // Removing DOM elements we don't want to crawl
        const toRemove = '.hash-link';
        $(toRemove).remove();

        return helpers.docsearch({
          recordProps: {
            lvl0: {
              selectors: '.navBreadcrumb h2 span',
              defaultValue: 'Docs',
            },
            lvl1: '.post h1',
            lvl2: '.post h2',
            lvl3: '.post h3',
            lvl4: '.post h4',
            content: '.post article p, .post article li',
            tags: {
              defaultValue: ['docs'],
            },
          },
          indexHeadings: true,
          aggregateContent: true,
        });
      },
    },
    {
      indexName: 'YOUR_INDEX_NAME',
      pathsToMatch: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/blog/**'],
      recordExtractor: ({ $, helpers }) => {
        // Removing DOM elements we don't want to crawl
        const toRemove = '.hash-link';
        $(toRemove).remove();

        return helpers.docsearch({
          recordProps: {
            lvl0: {
              selectors: '.navBreadcrumb h2 span',
              defaultValue: 'Blog',
            },
            lvl1: '.post h1',
            lvl2: '.post h2',
            lvl3: '.post h3',
            lvl4: '.post h4',
            content: '.post article p, .post article li',
            tags: {
              defaultValue: ['blog'],
            },
          },
          indexHeadings: true,
          aggregateContent: true,
        });
      },
    },
  ],
  initialIndexSettings: {
    YOUR_INDEX_NAME: {
      attributesForFaceting: ['type', 'lang', 'language', 'version', 'tags'],
      attributesToRetrieve: [
        'hierarchy',
        'content',
        'anchor',
        'url',
        'url_without_anchor',
        'type',
      ],
      attributesToHighlight: ['hierarchy', 'hierarchy_camel', 'content'],
      attributesToSnippet: ['content:10'],
      camelCaseAttributes: ['hierarchy', 'hierarchy_radio', 'content'],
      searchableAttributes: [
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio_camel.lvl0)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio.lvl0)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio_camel.lvl1)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio.lvl1)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio_camel.lvl2)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio.lvl2)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio_camel.lvl3)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio.lvl3)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio_camel.lvl4)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio.lvl4)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio_camel.lvl5)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio.lvl5)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio_camel.lvl6)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio.lvl6)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_camel.lvl0)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl0)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_camel.lvl1)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl1)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_camel.lvl2)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl2)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_camel.lvl3)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl3)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_camel.lvl4)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl4)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_camel.lvl5)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl5)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_camel.lvl6)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl6)',
        'content',
      ],
      distinct: true,
      attributeForDistinct: 'url',
      customRanking: [
        'desc(weight.pageRank)',
        'desc(weight.level)',
        'asc(weight.position)',
      ],
      ranking: [
        'words',
        'filters',
        'typo',
        'attribute',
        'proximity',
        'exact',
        'custom',
      ],
      highlightPreTag: '<span class="algolia-docsearch-suggestion--highlight">',
      highlightPostTag: '</span>',
      minWordSizefor1Typo: 3,
      minWordSizefor2Typos: 7,
      allowTyposOnNumericTokens: false,
      minProximity: 1,
      ignorePlurals: true,
      advancedSyntax: true,
      attributeCriteriaComputedByMinProximity: true,
      removeWordsIfNoResults: 'allOptional',
    },
  },
});

Docusaurus v2 template​

docusaurus-v2.js
new Crawler({
  appId: 'YOUR_APP_ID',
  apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
  rateLimit: 8,
  startUrls: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/'],
  sitemaps: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/sitemap.xml'],
  ignoreCanonicalTo: true,
  discoveryPatterns: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/**'],
  actions: [
    {
      indexName: 'YOUR_INDEX_NAME',
      pathsToMatch: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/**'],
      recordExtractor: ({ $, helpers }) => {
        // priority order: deepest active sub list header -> navbar active item -> 'Documentation'
        const lvl0 =
          $(
            '.menu__link.menu__link--sublist.menu__link--active, .navbar__item.navbar__link--active'
          )
            .last()
            .text() || 'Documentation';

        return helpers.docsearch({
          recordProps: {
            lvl0: {
              selectors: '',
              defaultValue: lvl0,
            },
            lvl1: ['header h1', 'article h1'],
            lvl2: 'article h2',
            lvl3: 'article h3',
            lvl4: 'article h4',
            lvl5: 'article h5, article td:first-child',
            lvl6: 'article h6',
            content: 'article p, article li, article td:last-child',
          },
          indexHeadings: true,
          aggregateContent: true,
          recordVersion: 'v3',
        });
      },
    },
  ],
  initialIndexSettings: {
    YOUR_INDEX_NAME: {
      attributesForFaceting: [
        'type',
        'lang',
        'language',
        'version',
        'docusaurus_tag',
      ],
      attributesToRetrieve: [
        'hierarchy',
        'content',
        'anchor',
        'url',
        'url_without_anchor',
        'type',
      ],
      attributesToHighlight: ['hierarchy', 'content'],
      attributesToSnippet: ['content:10'],
      camelCaseAttributes: ['hierarchy', 'content'],
      searchableAttributes: [
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl0)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl1)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl2)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl3)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl4)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl5)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl6)',
        'content',
      ],
      distinct: true,
      attributeForDistinct: 'url',
      customRanking: [
        'desc(weight.pageRank)',
        'desc(weight.level)',
        'asc(weight.position)',
      ],
      ranking: [
        'words',
        'filters',
        'typo',
        'attribute',
        'proximity',
        'exact',
        'custom',
      ],
      highlightPreTag: '<span class="algolia-docsearch-suggestion--highlight">',
      highlightPostTag: '</span>',
      minWordSizefor1Typo: 3,
      minWordSizefor2Typos: 7,
      allowTyposOnNumericTokens: false,
      minProximity: 1,
      ignorePlurals: true,
      advancedSyntax: true,
      attributeCriteriaComputedByMinProximity: true,
      removeWordsIfNoResults: 'allOptional',
      separatorsToIndex: '_',
    },
  },
});

Vuepress v1 template​

vuepress-v1.js
new Crawler({
  appId: 'YOUR_APP_ID',
  apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
  rateLimit: 8,
  startUrls: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/'],
  sitemaps: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/sitemap.xml'],
  ignoreCanonicalTo: false,
  discoveryPatterns: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/**'],
  actions: [
    {
      indexName: 'YOUR_INDEX_NAME',
      pathsToMatch: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/**'],
      recordExtractor: ({ $, helpers }) => {
        return helpers.docsearch({
          recordProps: {
            lvl0: {
              selectors: 'p.sidebar-heading.open',
              defaultValue: 'Documentation',
            },
            lvl1: '.content__default h1',
            lvl2: '.content__default h2',
            lvl3: '.content__default h3',
            lvl4: '.content__default h4',
            lvl5: '.content__default h5',
            content: '.content__default p, .content__default li',
          },
          indexHeadings: true,
          aggregateContent: true,
        });
      },
    },
  ],
  initialIndexSettings: {
    YOUR_INDEX_NAME: {
      attributesForFaceting: ['type', 'lang'],
      attributesToRetrieve: ['hierarchy', 'content', 'anchor', 'url'],
      attributesToHighlight: ['hierarchy', 'hierarchy_camel', 'content'],
      attributesToSnippet: ['content:10'],
      camelCaseAttributes: ['hierarchy', 'hierarchy_radio', 'content'],
      searchableAttributes: [
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio_camel.lvl0)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio.lvl0)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio_camel.lvl1)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio.lvl1)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio_camel.lvl2)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio.lvl2)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio_camel.lvl3)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio.lvl3)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio_camel.lvl4)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio.lvl4)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio_camel.lvl5)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio.lvl5)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio_camel.lvl6)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_radio.lvl6)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_camel.lvl0)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl0)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_camel.lvl1)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl1)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_camel.lvl2)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl2)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_camel.lvl3)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl3)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_camel.lvl4)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl4)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_camel.lvl5)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl5)',
        'unordered(hierarchy_camel.lvl6)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl6)',
        'content',
      ],
      distinct: true,
      attributeForDistinct: 'url',
      customRanking: [
        'desc(weight.pageRank)',
        'desc(weight.level)',
        'asc(weight.position)',
      ],
      ranking: [
        'words',
        'filters',
        'typo',
        'attribute',
        'proximity',
        'exact',
        'custom',
      ],
      highlightPreTag: '<span class="algolia-docsearch-suggestion--highlight">',
      highlightPostTag: '</span>',
      minWordSizefor1Typo: 3,
      minWordSizefor2Typos: 7,
      allowTyposOnNumericTokens: false,
      minProximity: 1,
      ignorePlurals: true,
      advancedSyntax: true,
      attributeCriteriaComputedByMinProximity: true,
      removeWordsIfNoResults: 'allOptional',
    },
  },
});

Vuepress v2 template​

vuepress-v2.js
new Crawler({
  appId: 'YOUR_APP_ID',
  apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
  rateLimit: 8,
  startUrls: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/'],
  sitemaps: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/sitemap.xml'],
  ignoreCanonicalTo: false,
  discoveryPatterns: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/**'],
  actions: [
    {
      indexName: 'YOUR_INDEX_NAME',
      pathsToMatch: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/**'],
      recordExtractor: ({ $, helpers }) => {
        return helpers.docsearch({
          recordProps: {
            lvl0: {
              selectors: '.sidebar-heading.active',
              defaultValue: 'Documentation',
            },
            lvl1: '.theme-default-content h1',
            lvl2: '.theme-default-content h2',
            lvl3: '.theme-default-content h3',
            lvl4: '.theme-default-content h4',
            lvl5: '.theme-default-content h5',
            content: '.theme-default-content p, .theme-default-content li',
          },
          indexHeadings: true,
          aggregateContent: true,
          recordVersion: 'v3',
        });
      },
    },
  ],
  initialIndexSettings: {
    YOUR_INDEX_NAME: {
      attributesForFaceting: ['type', 'lang'],
      attributesToRetrieve: ['hierarchy', 'content', 'anchor', 'url'],
      attributesToHighlight: ['hierarchy', 'content'],
      attributesToSnippet: ['content:10'],
      camelCaseAttributes: ['hierarchy', 'content'],
      searchableAttributes: [
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl0)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl1)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl2)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl3)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl4)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl5)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl6)',
        'content',
      ],
      distinct: true,
      attributeForDistinct: 'url',
      customRanking: [
        'desc(weight.pageRank)',
        'desc(weight.level)',
        'asc(weight.position)',
      ],
      ranking: [
        'words',
        'filters',
        'typo',
        'attribute',
        'proximity',
        'exact',
        'custom',
      ],
      highlightPreTag: '<span class="algolia-docsearch-suggestion--highlight">',
      highlightPostTag: '</span>',
      minWordSizefor1Typo: 3,
      minWordSizefor2Typos: 7,
      allowTyposOnNumericTokens: false,
      minProximity: 1,
      ignorePlurals: true,
      advancedSyntax: true,
      attributeCriteriaComputedByMinProximity: true,
      removeWordsIfNoResults: 'allOptional',
    },
  },
});

Vitepress template​

vitepress.js
new Crawler({
  appId: 'YOUR_APP_ID',
  apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
  rateLimit: 8,
  startUrls: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/'],
  sitemaps: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/sitemap.xml'],
  discoveryPatterns: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/**'],
  actions: [
    {
      indexName: 'YOUR_INDEX_NAME',
      pathsToMatch: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/**'],
      recordExtractor: ({ $, helpers }) => {
        return helpers.docsearch({
          recordProps: {
            lvl0: {
              selectors: '',
              defaultValue: 'Documentation',
            },
            lvl1: '.content h1',
            lvl2: '.content h2',
            lvl3: '.content h3',
            lvl4: '.content h4',
            lvl5: '.content h5',
            content: '.content p, .content li',
          },
          indexHeadings: true,
          aggregateContent: true,
          recordVersion: 'v3',
        });
      },
    },
  ],
  initialIndexSettings: {
    YOUR_INDEX_NAME: {
      attributesForFaceting: ['type', 'lang'],
      attributesToRetrieve: ['hierarchy', 'content', 'anchor', 'url'],
      attributesToHighlight: ['hierarchy', 'content'],
      attributesToSnippet: ['content:10'],
      camelCaseAttributes: ['hierarchy', 'content'],
      searchableAttributes: [
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl0)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl1)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl2)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl3)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl4)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl5)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl6)',
        'content',
      ],
      distinct: true,
      attributeForDistinct: 'url',
      customRanking: [
        'desc(weight.pageRank)',
        'desc(weight.level)',
        'asc(weight.position)',
      ],
      ranking: [
        'words',
        'filters',
        'typo',
        'attribute',
        'proximity',
        'exact',
        'custom',
      ],
      highlightPreTag: '<span class="algolia-docsearch-suggestion--highlight">',
      highlightPostTag: '</span>',
      minWordSizefor1Typo: 3,
      minWordSizefor2Typos: 7,
      allowTyposOnNumericTokens: false,
      minProximity: 1,
      ignorePlurals: true,
      advancedSyntax: true,
      attributeCriteriaComputedByMinProximity: true,
      removeWordsIfNoResults: 'allOptional',
    },
  },
});

pkgdown template​

pkgdown.js
new Crawler({
  appId: 'YOUR_APP_ID',
  apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
  rateLimit: 8,
  startUrls: [
    'https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/index.html',
    'https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/',
    'https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/reference',
    'https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/articles',
  ],
  sitemaps: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/sitemap.xml'],
  exclusionPatterns: [
    '**/reference/',
    '**/reference/index.html',
    '**/articles/',
    '**/articles/index.html',
  ],
  discoveryPatterns: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/**'],
  actions: [
    {
      indexName: 'YOUR_INDEX_NAME',
      pathsToMatch: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/index.html**/**'],
      recordExtractor: ({ $, helpers }) => {
        // Removing DOM elements we don't want to crawl
        const toRemove = '.dont-index';
        $(toRemove).remove();

        return helpers.docsearch({
          recordProps: {
            lvl0: {
              selectors: '.contents h1',
              defaultValue: 'YOUR_INDEX_NAME Home page',
            },
            lvl1: '.contents h2',
            lvl2: '.contents h3',
            lvl3: '.ref-arguments td, .ref-description',
            content: '.contents p, .contents li, .contents .pre',
            tags: {
              defaultValue: ['homepage'],
            },
          },
          indexHeadings: { from: 2, to: 6 },
          aggregateContent: true,
        });
      },
    },
    {
      indexName: 'YOUR_INDEX_NAME',
      pathsToMatch: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/reference**/**'],
      recordExtractor: ({ $, helpers }) => {
        // Removing DOM elements we don't want to crawl
        const toRemove = '.dont-index';
        $(toRemove).remove();

        return helpers.docsearch({
          recordProps: {
            lvl0: {
              selectors: '.contents h1',
            },
            lvl1: '.contents .name',
            lvl2: '.ref-arguments th',
            lvl3: '.ref-arguments td, .ref-description',
            content: '.contents p, .contents li',
            tags: {
              defaultValue: ['reference'],
            },
          },
          indexHeadings: { from: 2, to: 6 },
          aggregateContent: true,
        });
      },
    },
    {
      indexName: 'YOUR_INDEX_NAME',
      pathsToMatch: ['https://YOUR_WEBSITE_URL/articles**/**'],
      recordExtractor: ({ $, helpers }) => {
        // Removing DOM elements we don't want to crawl
        const toRemove = '.dont-index';
        $(toRemove).remove();

        return helpers.docsearch({
          recordProps: {
            lvl0: {
              selectors: '.contents h1',
            },
            lvl1: '.contents .name',
            lvl2: '.contents h2, .contents h3',
            content: '.contents p, .contents li',
            tags: {
              defaultValue: ['articles'],
            },
          },
          indexHeadings: { from: 2, to: 6 },
          aggregateContent: true,
        });
      },
    },
  ],
  initialIndexSettings: {
    YOUR_INDEX_NAME: {
      attributesForFaceting: ['type', 'lang'],
      attributesToRetrieve: [
        'hierarchy',
        'content',
        'anchor',
        'url',
        'url_without_anchor',
      ],
      attributesToHighlight: ['hierarchy', 'content'],
      attributesToSnippet: ['content:10'],
      camelCaseAttributes: ['hierarchy', 'content'],
      searchableAttributes: [
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl0)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl1)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl2)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl3)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl4)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl5)',
        'unordered(hierarchy.lvl6)',
        'content',
      ],
      distinct: true,
      attributeForDistinct: 'url',
      customRanking: [
        'desc(weight.pageRank)',
        'desc(weight.level)',
        'asc(weight.position)',
      ],
      ranking: [
        'words',
        'filters',
        'typo',
        'attribute',
        'proximity',
        'exact',
        'custom',
      ],
      highlightPreTag: '<span class="algolia-docsearch-suggestion--highlight">',
      highlightPostTag: '</span>',
      minWordSizefor1Typo: 3,
      minWordSizefor2Typos: 7,
      allowTyposOnNumericTokens: false,
      minProximity: 1,
      ignorePlurals: true,
      advancedSyntax: true,
      attributeCriteriaComputedByMinProximity: true,
      removeWordsIfNoResults: 'allOptional',
      separatorsToIndex: '_',
    },
  },
});