Web interface

After adding documents to your MeiliSearch, it is possible to try out the search engine with the integrated web interface. This only works in a development environment.

The web interface is served on the address and port specified in the command line argument --listen. If not specified, the default address and port is used.

WARNING

Since the production environment requires an API-key for searching, the web interface is only available in development mode.

Example

By default the web server can be reached on http://127.0.0.1:7700.

Let’s add some movies.

cURL

JavaScript

Python

PHP

Ruby

Go

Rust

  1. curl -X POST 'http://127.0.0.1:7700/indexes/movies/documents'\
  2.   --data @movies.json
  1. const movies = require('./movies.json')
  2. client.index('movies').addDocuments(movies).then((res) => console.log(res))
  1. import json
  3. json_file = open('movies.json')
  4. movies = json.load(json_file)
  5. client.index('movies').add_documents(movies)
  1. $moviesJson = file_get_contents('movies.json');
  2. $movies = json_decode($moviesJson);
  4. $client->index('movies')->addDocuments($movies)
  1. require 'json'
  3. movies_json = File.read('movies.json')
  4. movies = JSON.parse(movies_json)
  5. client.index('movies').add_documents(movies)
  1. import (
  2.   "encoding/json"
  3.   "io/ioutil"
  4. )
  6. file, _ := ioutil.ReadFile("movies.json")
  8. var movies interface{}
  9. json.Unmarshal([]byte(file), &movies)
  11. client.Index("movies").AddDocuments(&movies)
  1. use meilisearch_sdk::{
  2.   indexes::*,
  3.   document::*,
  4.   client::*,
  5.   search::*,
  6.   progress::*,
  7.   settings::*
  8. };
  9. use serde::{Serialize, Deserialize};
  10. use std::{io::prelude::*, fs::File};
  11. use futures::executor::block_on;
  13. fn main() { block_on(async move {
  14.   let client = Client::new("http://localhost:7700", "masterKey");
  16.   // reading and parsing the file
  17.   let mut file = File::open("movies.json").unwrap();
  18.   let mut content = String::new();
  19.   file.read_to_string(&mut content).unwrap();
  20.   let movies_docs: Vec<Movie> = serde_json::from_str(&content).unwrap();
  22.   // adding documents
  23.   let movies = client.get_or_create_index("movies").await.unwrap();
  24.   movies.add_documents(&movies_docs, None).await.unwrap();
  25. })}

Let’s go to http://127.0.0.1:7700 in our browser.