Is it possible for my search request to return the number of documents that match a specific category? For example, I have a cluster that contains a collection called 'products'. In my request to this collection, I need to create a filter on my front-end for the products that correspond to a specific category. For instance, I have a field called 'product_type_code', and I want to be able to create a menu among the documents it found, filtering the results based on the quantity of 'product_type_code' found, similar to the Algolia example I will attach below.

If you set

facet_by: product_type_code

that should return the number of documents that are found for each value of product_type_code

Thank you very much! I was having difficulty understanding that part.

You’d need to drop and add the field as described here after turning on faceting: https://typesense.org/docs/0.24.1/api/collections.html#modifying-an-existing-field