New Crawler UI/UX
The Algolia Crawler Visual UI provides an updated, user-friendly way to manage your crawl settings and monitor your indexing process. This guide covers the main features of the new interface.
DocSearch Tab ​
The Crawler UI now includes a dedicated DocSearch tab. This tab provides everything you need to implement DocSearch on your site, including:
- Implementation code: Copy-paste ready code snippets for integrating DocSearch into your frontend.
- API keys: Your unique Application ID and Search API Key for connecting to your Algolia index.
- Quick links: Access to review your records, explore documentation, and join the support Discord.
Trigger a new crawl​
Head over to the Overview section to start, restart or pause your crawls and view a real-time summary.
Monitor your crawls​
The Monitoring section helps you find crawl errors or improve your search results.
Update your config​
You can update your crawler configuration in two ways:
Visual Configuration UI: Quickly edit common options without writing code using the new Visual Configuration interface.
Code Editor:
For advanced configuration, use the live code editor to directly modify your config file and test your URLs (URL tester).
URL tester​
From the editor, you can use the URL tester to debug selectors or see how the crawler interprets your site.
Suggestions​
The Suggestions section in the Crawler UI provides actionable feedback to help you improve your crawl and data extraction. After each crawl, you'll see recommendations for:
- Fixing redirect or domain issues
- Addressing ignored or failed URLs
- Adding missing sitemaps
Each suggestion includes a description, a solution, and quick links to relevant documentation or monitoring tools, so you can resolve issues efficiently and optimize your search experience.
