README.md

August 6, 2026 · View on GitHub

The easiest way to add search to your documentation – for free.

Documentation • JavaScript Playground • React Playground

DocSearch crawls your documentation, pushes the content to an Algolia index and provides a dropdown search experience on your website.

Usage

Don't have your Algolia credentials yet? Apply to DocSearch!

JavaScript

Installation

bun add @docsearch/js@5
# or
npm install @docsearch/js@5

If you don’t want to use a package manager, you can use a standalone endpoint:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@docsearch/js@5"></script>

Get started

To get started, you need a container for your DocSearch component to go in. If you don’t have one already, you can insert one into your markup:

<div id="docsearch"></div>

Then, insert DocSearch into it by calling the docsearch function and providing the container. It can be a CSS selector or an Element.

Make sure to provide a container (for example, a div), not an input. DocSearch generates a fully accessible search box for you.

import docsearch from '@docsearch/js';

import '@docsearch/css';

docsearch({
  container: '#docsearch',
  appId: 'YOUR_APP_ID',
  indices: ['YOUR_INDEX_NAME'],
  apiKey: 'YOUR_SEARCH_API_KEY',
});

React

Installation

bun add @docsearch/react@5
# or
npm install @docsearch/react@5

If you don’t want to use a package manager, you can use a standalone endpoint:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@docsearch/react@5"></script>

Get started

DocSearch generates a fully accessible search box for you.

import { DocSearch } from '@docsearch/react';

import '@docsearch/css';

function App() {
  return (
    <DocSearch
      appId="YOUR_APP_ID"
      apiKey="YOUR_SEARCH_API_KEY"
      indices=["YOUR_ALGOLIA_INDEX"]
    />
  );
}

export default App;

Client plugins for the public DocSearch MCP endpoint are in mcp/plugins/docsearch. They connect ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, and Claude Code to https://mcp.algolia.com/1/docsearch/mcp for current public developer documentation.

DocSearch is made of the following repositories:

algolia/docsearch: DocSearch source code.
algolia/docsearch/packages/website: DocSearch website and documentation.
algolia/docsearch-configs: DocSearch websites configurations that DocSearch powers.
algolia/docsearch-scraper: DocSearch crawler that extracts data from your documentation.