Can plugin provide search ability?

[linonetwo]

I'd like to create a plugin that uses https://github.com/meilisearch to provide search results, is there an API to hook into the search form in TW?

[saqimtiaz]

@linonetwo the search results and form in TW are all implemented in wikitext.

The best way to go about this might be to implement a filter operator that uses meilisearch, and then add your own search results tiddler using this filter operator: https://tiddlywiki.com/#Customising%20search%20results

[linonetwo]

Thanks for suggestion, this will be a good way to test the integration. But I actually want to boost the native search form with typo-tolerance and tokenized CJK support.

[saqimtiaz]

@linonetwo there are a few options:

• You can create a new search results tiddler as above and set that as the default in $:/config/SearchResults/Default
• Or you could override the core shadow tiddler $:/core/ui/DefaultSearchResultList to use your new search filter operator
• Lastly you could override the core search[] operator, but I would not recommend this as it may be used by other plugins etc.

[pmario]

meilisearch is a "search server". So it will be more or less useless for single file wikis.

There is the https://github.com/hoelzro/tw-full-text-search/ plugin, which creates a "local" index, per request or at startup. It does have a "fuzzy search" function, which isn't activated by default. ... So there would be a little adjustment needed.

Fuzzy-search will be done if you type: tipo~1 ... which imo should be part of the default search UI. ...