# Typesense search

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/typesense-search/5302>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [December 2, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/typesense-search/5302 "2020-12-02T02:05:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Infominer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/infominer/32/2905_2.png) [@Infominer](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/Infominer)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/typesense-search/5302/1 "2020-12-02T02:05:26Z")

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I recently ran into algolia’s free tier limit, after attempting to transition to a full-text search.

I was recommended [Typesense](https://github.com/typesense/typesense), and thought “Great!” a FOSS alternative to algolia… except this does not come with a jekyll plugin, and the [example application](https://typesense.org/docs/0.17.0/guide/#example-application) isn’t quite enough to get me started at trying to index my site.

seems like this [gatsby plugin](https://github.com/typesense/gatsby-plugin-typesense) might get me much of the way there, since it searches html files indexing elements with the `data-typesense-field`.

[UPDATE]

> I was recently thinking about extracting the portion of this package that looks for data attributes into a separate package, so it can be used in exactly the way you describe against any site. ([gatsby-plugin-typesense/issues/5](https://github.com/typesense/gatsby-plugin-typesense/issues/5#issuecomment-736946427))

looks like my wish shall be granted… we’ll see how I fare integrating with minimal mistakes, but hopefully this [typesense-instantsearch-adapter](https://github.com/typesense/typesense-instantsearch-adapter) will relieve most of the pain involved.

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if suggesting alternatives, something in the self-hosted realm would be best for my use-case.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![MichaelCurrin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/michaelcurrin/32/2340_2.png) [@MichaelCurrin](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/MichaelCurrin)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 10:24am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/typesense-search/5302/2 "2020-12-02T10:24:04Z")

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There are q bunch of threads on the forum discussing search. You can search `search` or `algolia`.