wagtail-meilisearch 0.1.2

A MeiliSearch backend for Wagatil

Wagtail MeiliSearch

This is a (beta) Wagtail search backend for the MeiliSearch search engine.

Installation

poetry add wagtail_meilisearch or pip install wagtail_meilisearch

Configuration

See the MeiliSearch docs for info on the values you want to add here.

WAGTAILSEARCH_BACKENDS = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'wagtail_meilisearch.backend',
        'HOST': os.environ.get('MEILISEARCH_HOST', 'http://127.0.0.1'),
        'PORT': os.environ.get('MEILISEARCH_PORT', '7700'),
        'MASTER_KEY': os.environ.get('MEILI_MASTER_KEY', '')
    },
}

Stop Words

Stop words are words for which we don't want to place significance on their frequency. For instance, the search query tom and jerry would return far less relevant results if the word and was given the same importance as tom and jerry. There's a fairly sane list of English language stop words supplied, but you can also supply your own. This is particularly useful if you have a lot of content in any other language.

MY_STOP_WORDS = ['a', 'list', 'of', 'words']

WAGTAILSEARCH_BACKENDS = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'wagtail_meilisearch.backend',
        [...]
        'STOP_WORDS': MY_STOP_WORDS
    },
}

Or alternatively, you can extend the built in list.

from wagtail_meilisearch.settings import STOP_WORDS

MY_STOP_WORDS = STOP_WORDS + WELSH_STOP_WORDS + FRENCH_STOP_WORDS

WAGTAILSEARCH_BACKENDS = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'wagtail_meilisearch.backend',
        [...]
        'STOP_WORDS': MY_STOP_WORDS
    },
}

Contributing

If you want to help with the development I'd be more than happy. The vast majority of the heavy lifting is done by MeiliSearch itself, but there is a TODO list...

TODO

• Faceting
• Implement boosting in the sort algorithm
• Write tests
• Performance improvements - particularly in the autocomplete query compiler which for some reason seems slower than the regular one.
• Implement stop words
• Search results
• Add support for the autocomplete api
• Ensure we're getting results by relevance

Thanks

Thank you to the devs of Wagtail-Whoosh. Reading the code over there was the only way I could work out how Wagtail Search backends are supposed to work.