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Search Params

The search request can be customized with the params option

const ui = new FindkitUI({
    publicToken: "<TOKEN>",
    params: {
        // Limit results to example.com domain
        tagQuery: [["domain/example.com"]],
    },
});

The params can be dynamically updated using the ui.updateParams() method and the useParams() hook to update from Slot Overrides.

Options​

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createdDecay: number​

0-1 numerical value for demoting old pages

modifiedDecay: number​

0-1 numerical value for demoting stagnant pages

decayScale: string​

To be used with createdDecay or modifiedDecay. Defines in which timeframe decay filter is applied, e.g. "7d".

highlightLength: number​

The length of returned hilight string. Se to 0 disable highlighting.

caution

Too large values might slow down the search.

size: number​

How many results to fetch in a single request.

lang: string​

Limit results to the given language. A two letter language code. Not to be confused with the lang constructor option which sets the UI language.

tagQuery: string[][]​

Filter results using tags. For more flexible filtering based on your custom fields see filter.

Logical AND and OR operators are supported.

OR-syntax:

[["A", "B", "C"]]; // A OR B OR C

AND-syntax:

[["A"], ["B"], ["C"]]; // A AND B AND C

combining queries:

[["A"], ["B", "C"]]; // A AND (B OR C)

Complex tag queries can be expensive. Because of this, it's recommended that you preprocess your pages to have meaningful tags.

For example if there is 100 different sports categories on your website and you want to show all the search results in a group "Sports". Instead of giving each sport a specific tag name and querying it swimming OR biking OR ... give each sport page a sport tag and use it in the query.

tagBoost: Record<string, number>​

Boost page scores with certain tags.

Example

const ui = new FindkitUI({
    publicToken: "<TOKEN>",
    params: {
        tagBoost: {
            important: 2,
        },
    },
});

This will increase the search score of pages with important tag by x2. It is also possible to down boost by using boost numbers less than one. Ex. 0.5 to drop the score to half.

sort: Sort​

New in v0.9.0

Use alternative sorting. By default search results are sorted by the relevancy score but it can be forced to be sorted by created or modified dates or by any custom field.

Example

const ui = new FindkitUI({
    publicToken: "<TOKEN>",
    params: {
        sort: {
            created: {
                $order: "asc",
            },
        },
    },
});

Multi-level sorting is also possible

const ui = new FindkitUI({
    publicToken: "<TOKEN>",
    params: {
        sort: [
            {
                price: {
                    $order: "asc",
                },
            },
            {
                created: {
                    $order: "asc",
                },
            },
        ],
    },
});

If sorting values are the same, the search results are sorted by the relevance score.

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filter: Filter​

New in v0.9.0

Filter the search results by tags, created, modified, language and custom field using a MongoDB style filtering query. Read more on the Filtering page.

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skip: boolean​

New in v0.15.0

Skip the search and always return an empty response. Can be used to optimize the search request when visually hiding some of the groups.