Data & Analytics

Meilisearch Search Engine

Deploy Meilisearch for fast, typo-tolerant search with easy setup and a generous open-source offering.

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Overview

Meilisearch is an open-source, lightning-fast search engine written in Rust. It provides typo-tolerant, relevant search results in under 50ms with zero configuration needed. The engine is designed as a drop-in search solution that works out of the box, with sensible defaults for relevance ranking, filterable attributes, and result highlighting.

Meilisearch supports multi-language search with built-in tokenizers for CJK languages, faceted search, geo search, and multi-tenancy through tenant tokens. Unlike Elasticsearch, Meilisearch requires no schema definition; it auto-detects field types and creates indices automatically. The search API supports filters, sorting, pagination, and highlighted results with a simple RESTful interface.

The platform can be self-hosted (single binary, Docker, or cloud VM) or used through Meilisearch Cloud. It provides official SDKs for JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, and Rust. The JavaScript SDK works in both Node.js and browsers. Meilisearch integrates with popular frameworks through plugins for Strapi, Firebase, and docs platforms like Docusaurus and VuePress.

Who Is This For?

Add search to a content site or documentation portal
Build product search with filters and facets
Implement geo-based search for location services
Replace Elasticsearch with a simpler alternative

Installation

Setup for Claude Code

npm install meilisearch

Configuration

import { MeiliSearch } from "meilisearch"

const client = new MeiliSearch({
  host: process.env.MEILI_HOST || "http://localhost:7700",
  apiKey: process.env.MEILI_MASTER_KEY,
})

// Add documents
const index = client.index("movies")
await index.addDocuments(movies)

// Search
const results = await index.search("action hero", {
  filter: ["year > 2020", "rating >= 8"],
  sort: ["rating:desc"],
  limit: 20,
})