Algolia Sync for Craft CMS

Give your site lightning-fast, typo-tolerant search without the busywork of keeping Algolia up to date. Algolia Sync watches your Craft content and quietly does the rest: whenever something is created, updated, deleted, disabled, or expires, the matching Algolia records are updated for you — automatically, in the background. No manual reindexing, no scheduled exports, no drift between your CMS and your search index.

What you can index

• Entries (channel and structure sections)
• Categories and Tags
• Assets (by volume)
• Users (by user group)
• Craft Commerce products and variants

Why you'll like it

Set it and forget it

Configure which content types you want searchable, and Algolia Sync keeps them current from that moment on. Edits show up in search, removed content disappears from results, and expired entries clean themselves out — all without anyone lifting a finger.

Built for multi-site

Run a multi-site or multi-language install? Each site gets its own correctly-scoped records, so visitors only ever search the content that belongs to their site or language. Enable a page on one site and hide it on another, and your search results follow suit.

Search the way that fits your site

Keep each content type in its own index, or combine several types into a single search experience and filter by what you need. Index names are fully configurable and environment-aware, so your development, staging, and production sites stay neatly separated.

Fast, and out of the way

All the heavy lifting runs through Craft's job queue, so editors never wait on Algolia while saving. You can even tune how Algolia Sync prioritizes its work relative to everything else happening on your site.

Flexible for developers, friendly for everyone

The data sent to Algolia is smart about your content out of the box — handling things like assets, dates, category trees, related entries and users, and rich-text fields. And when you need something custom, developers can shape exactly what gets indexed without changing your underlying Craft content.

Keep your index tidy

A built-in cleanup tool sweeps out any stray records for content that's been deleted, disabled, or expired — so your search results stay accurate and your index stays lean.

Safe front-end search

Power your public-facing search with a secure, search-only connection to Algolia, keeping your administrative keys private.

Craft version compatibility

Algolia Sync runs on Craft 3, 4, and 5, and the plugin store installs the right release for your version automatically. Core automatic syncing is available across all three. The newest capabilities — including multi-site indexing, configurable queue priority, expiry handling, and stale-record cleanup — are part of the Craft 5 release.

Requirements

• Craft CMS 5.0 or later (Craft 3 and 4 are supported by their respective releases)
• PHP 8.2 or later
• An Algolia account