poweredBy

About this widget # Found an issue? Edit this page

The poweredBy widget is used to display the Algolia logo to redirect to our website.

Algolia requires that you use this widget if you are on a Community or Free plan.

Examples # Found an issue? Edit this page

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instantsearch.widgets.poweredBy({
  container: '#powered-by',
});

Customize the UI - connectPoweredBy# Found an issue? Edit this page

If you want to create your own UI of the poweredBy widget, you can use connectors.

It’s a 3-step process:

// 1. Create a render function
const renderPoweredBy = (renderOptions, isFirstRender) => {
  // Rendering logic
};

// 2. Create the custom widget
const customPoweredBy = instantsearch.connectors.connectPoweredBy(
  renderPoweredBy
);

// 3. Instantiate
search.addWidget(
  customPoweredBy({
    // instance params
  })
);

Create a render function#

This rendering function is called before the first search (init lifecycle step) and each time results come back from Algolia (render lifecycle step).

const renderPoweredBy = (renderOptions, isFirstRender) => {
  const { string url, object widgetParams } = renderOptions;

  if (isFirstRender) {
    // Do some initial rendering and bind events
  }

  // Render the widget
}

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const renderPoweredBy = (renderOptions, isFirstRender) => {
  const { url } = renderOptions;

  document.querySelector('#powered-by').innerHTML = `
    <a href="${url}">Powered by Algolia</a>
  `;
};

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const renderPoweredBy = (renderOptions, isFirstRender) => {
  const { widgetParams } = renderOptions;

  widgetParams.container.innerHTML = '...';
};

// ...

search.addWidget(
  customPoweredBy({
    container: document.querySelector('#powered-by'),
  })
);

Create and instantiate the custom widget#

We first create custom widgets from our rendering function, then we instantiate them. When doing that, there are two types of parameters you can give:

• Instance parameters: they are predefined parameters that you can use to configure the behavior of Algolia.
• Your own parameters: to make the custom widget generic.

Both instance and custom parameters are available in connector.widgetParams, inside the renderFunction.

const customPoweredBy = instantsearch.connectors.connectPoweredBy(
  renderPoweredBy
);

search.addWidget(
  customPoweredBy({
    // Optional parameters
    url: string,
  })
);

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customPoweredBy({
  url: 'https://algolia.com/about',
});

Full example#

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// Create the render function
const renderPoweredBy = (renderOptions, isFirstRender) => {
  const { url, widgetParams } = renderOptions;

  widgetParams.container.innerHTML = `
    <a href="${url}">Powered by Algolia</a>
  `;
};

// Create the custom widget
const customPoweredBy = instantsearch.connectors.connectPoweredBy(
  renderPoweredBy
);

// Instantiate the custom widget
search.addWidget(
  customPoweredBy({
    container: document.querySelector('#powered-by'),
  })
);

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<div id="powered-by"></div>

HTML output# Found an issue? Edit this page

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<div class="ais-PoweredBy">
   <span class="ais-PoweredBy-text">Search by</span>
   <a href="..." class="ais-PoweredBy-link" aria-label="Algolia">
      <!-- <svg> ... </svg> -->
   </a>
</div>