Algolia Crawler Github Action

Automatically index your website to Algolia when deploying your website with the Algolia Crawler. IMPORTANT: This Github Action is only available for Algolia users with Crawler Public API access.

• What is Algolia?
• What is Algolia's Crawler?

Platforms support

It should be compatible with any hosts as long as you provide the correct site-url. On top of that, it has been tested with the following platforms:

• Github Pages
• Microsoft Azure
• Netlify
• Vercel

How to add this Github Action to your workflow ?

On your repository:

• Create a Github Workflow file .github/workflows/[FILENAME].yml.
• Add a new job after your website deployment. For the Crawler to work, it needs an up and running website.

  - name: Algolia crawler creation and crawl
    uses: algolia/[email protected]
    id: algolia_crawler
    with: # mandatory parameters
      crawler-user-id: ${{ secrets.CRAWLER_USER_ID }}
      crawler-api-key: ${{ secrets.CRAWLER_API_KEY }}
      algolia-app-id: ${{ secrets.ALGOLIA_APP_ID }}
      algolia-api-key: ${{ secrets.ALGOLIA_API_KEY }}
      site-url: 'https://example.com'

Example

• Basic
• Github Pages
• Netlify
• Vercel: PR, Main branch

Parameters to provide

Mandatory parameters

• crawler-user-id

  User Id of your crawler account

• crawler-api-key

  Api Key of your crawler account

• algolia-app-id

  Algolia Application ID

• algolia-api-key

  Algolia API Key

• site-url

  URL of the website to crawl

Optional parameters

• crawler-api-base-url

  Base URL of the crawler, default: https://crawler.algolia.com/api/1/

• crawler-name

  Name of the created crawler, default: '[Github] ${{ github.repository }} ${{ github.ref }}'

• override-config

  Boolean to define if you want your crawler config to be overriden or not, default: false

• github-token

  Needed for adding comments to PR, default: Github Action ${{ github.token }} variable

Github secrets on your repository

We highly recommend not to define sensitive information such as Algolia and/or Crawler credentials directly in the YAML file and to use Github secrets (defined in Settings > Secrets).

Recommended

• ALGOLIA_API_KEY

  Algolia Application ID

• ALGOLIA_APP_ID

  Algolia API Key

• CRAWLER_API_KEY

  Api Key of your crawler account

• CRAWLER_USER_ID

  User Id of your crawler account

Troubleshooting

• Need help? We have you covered in our Discourse forum
• Found a bug in the plugin? Please read our contributing guide and either open an issue or a pull request
• Can't find the answer to your issue? Please reach out to [email protected]

Development & Release

See CONTRIBUTING.md.