Match a specific keyword to a specific result - algolia

Question

We have a need to make a specific search keyword offer a specific result. Is there a way to do this from within the Algolia console?

Answer 1

There isn't such feature out-of-the box but what you can reproduce such behavior using 2 different solutions:
Quick work-around: adding the search keywords in your records
You could add a new keyword attribute to your objects and list there all the keywords you want to use for every single object.
with attributesToIndex:
Putting that keyword attribute on top of your attributesToIndex will make it match before the other attributes.
or with attributesForFaceting:
Putting that keyword attribute in the attributesForFaceting will let you filter on it. For every single search, you could do an extra query putting the query string as the filter: index.search('' /* empty query string: match all */, { facetFilters: "keyword:THE_USER_QUERY_STRING" }) and check use the results if there is a match, otherwise use the regular search query.
Better option: using an additional index
Using an additional index, you would push 1 record per search keyword you want to handle.
A record of such index would look like this:
{
"keyword": "mykeyword",
"object": {
// the object you want to retrieve
}
}
Configure your attributesToIndex with keyword only. You may also want to configure the queryType of that extra index to prefixNone so the native prefix search doesn't trigger. (instead, you could also use the facetFilters approach here).
For every single search, you would then query 2 indices: your original index and this extra index. In case the extra one has a match, you can inject the object in your search results.