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Algolia Ghost CLI

CLI tool to initially index the full Ghost post content into an Algolia index.

Install

npm install @tryghost/algolia --save

yarn add @tryghost/algolia

Usage

To use the CLI, install the dependencies with yarn install or npm install.

Copy the existing example.config.json to e. g. config.json and replace the relevant values for Ghost and Algolia. indexSettings reflects the current default settings and can either be overwritten, or removed from the config file.

To run the batch index, run

yarn algolia index <pathToConfig> [options]

Caveats

The Fragmenter breaks down large HTML pieces into smaller chunks by its headings. Sometimes the fragment is still too big and Algolia will throw an error listing the post id that caused the large fragment. The post id can be used to get the post slug, which then can be excluded from the batch run like this:

yarn algolia index <pathToConfig> -s post-slug-to-exclude,and-another-post-slug-to-exclude

Flags

pathToConfig, needs to be the relative (from this package) path to the config JSON file that contains the Ghost and Algolia API keys and settings (see usage above)
-s, --skip, takes a comma separated list of post slugs that need to be excluded from the index (see caveats above)
-V, --verbose, switches on verbose mode, but there's not much too see here (yet)
-l, --limit, limit the amount of posts to receive. Default is 'all'
-p --page, define the page to fetch posts from. To be used in combination with limit.
-sjs --skipjsonslugs, uses a list of slugs in config.json to skip before they're uploaded. This method will request all data from Ghost and skip at the point it would normally upload to Algolia. If you're getting 414 Request-URI Too Large errors using -s, this is the method to use.