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title: Algolia
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# Algolia for Search
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Algolia is a third party service which powers the search. When working with the API it is very likely that you will need to utilize Algolia. You will need to sign up for a free-tier account, retrieve the keys and provide those keys to the Rails application.
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## Sign up
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1. Go to the Algolia sign up [page](https://www.algolia.com/apps/AJVD3Q9KL3/dashboard).
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2. Choose one of the three methods of signing up: email, github or google.
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3. Fill in your information.
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4. Select the datacenter's region.
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5. Fill in or skip the project information.
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6. You are all set up now! You can go to your dashboard.
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7. You can skip the tutorial, we will guide you through the process. Accept the [Terms and Conditions](https://www.algolia.com/policies/terms).
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8. All good! You can get your API keys now.
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## Get API keys
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1. [Sign up](#algolia-sign-up) or [Sign in](https://www.algolia.com/users/sign_in) to your Algolia account.
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2. From your **Dashboard**, click on **API Keys**.
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3. Change your keys accordingly (name of Algolia key -> name of our `ENV` variable):
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```text
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Application ID -> ALGOLIASEARCH_APPLICATION_ID
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Search-Only API Key -> ALGOLIASEARCH_SEARCH_ONLY_KEY
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Admin API KEY -> ALGOLIASEARCH_API_KEY
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```
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4. Done.
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