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Multi-Index Search with Typesense Instantsearch Adapter

TLDR Ailish needed help with multi-index search using the Typesense instantsearch adapter. Kishore Nallan explained the server API separates these search requests, but can be merged using business logic. Jason suggested building custom widgets to do a multi-search request and aggregate scores on the client side.

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Ailish

12:03 PM

Hi all - looking for some advice or pointers. I’m building a federated search and using the typesense instantsearch adapter but from what I can see in the documentation, the only way do do a multi-index search when using the instantsearch adapter is to have the results display separately for each index, is that correct? What I’d like is to have all my results from all indices show up as one search ‘result’ with the ability to filter/facet etc on the whole dataset - is this possible?

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Kishore Nallan

12:13 PM

Typesense server API itself separates the multi search requests. For e.g. if you are querying 3 different collections, the results for each collection is returned separately. You will have to merge this on the front end using your business logic.

Ailish

12:22 PM

Thanks Kishore Nallan 🙂

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Ailish

12:27 PM

do you know of any examples of this being done that I could look at Kishore Nallan?

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Jason

01:40 PM

Ailish From what I can tell, I don't believe this is possible to do with instantsearch, or at least not out of the box. So you might need to build your own custom widgets to do a multi-search request to Typesense and then aggregate the text match scores on the client side.

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Jason

01:41 PM

We don't have an example of a custom widget like this, but I'd recommend checking if you can find any in the instantsearch repo or forums

Ailish

06:56 PM

Thanks Jason I’ll look into it

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