Algolia Fetch enriches your Algolia data directly within the Algolia data integration workflow. You can now retrieve information from external sources via third-party APIs, enhancing the quality and relevance of your search results. Algolia Fetch lets you add valuable content, and meta data to your Algolia records from any compatible third-party API. Seamlessly integrate external data sources and leverage Data Transformation prep functions to format and restructure before ingesting into the Index. Provide more accurate and relevant search results by enhancing the data quality of your product / content catalogues. Click here to learn more.

The A/B Testing Estimator addresses challenges in testing the impact of features by using customer goals and historical data to estimate test duration and sample size, ensuring that small customers can gather actionable insights, while larger customers avoid unnecessary delays. It maximizes confidence in results, validates test feasibility, and minimizes wasted resources. Available via the API and fully integrated into all API clients and the dashboard, it accelerates experimentation, minimizes delays, and enables faster revenue realization. Click here to learn more.

Algolia Data Transformations introduces a powerful and intuitive interface for preparing, cleaning, and structuring data directly within the Algolia platform. With features such as a code editor equipped with autocomplete and debugging, pre-built helper functions for common tasks, and the ability to write custom JavaScript transformations, customers can simplify and expedite the data preparation process. Transformations can be applied both pre- and post-indexing, ensuring greater flexibility and precision. This enhancement reduces manual effort, improves data quality, and enhances the relevance of search results, enabling businesses to deliver a more seamless and impactful user experience. Explore the product guide here and request a demo using this link. 

An update to the API client SLA will provide customers with more flexibility and time to prepare for major version upgrades. The new SLA will cover both the current and the previous major version for two years following the release of a new version. This change addresses the current limitation where only the latest version was covered, which left many customers without SLA support when major versions with breaking changes were introduced. The updated SLA ensures customers have a predictable two-year window to upgrade, reducing the pressure for immediate updates and enabling better planning. This change is expected to improve customer satisfaction by offering clearer coverage and reducing support inquiries.

Algolia's new SDK simplifies API client management by automatically generating comprehensive tests, documentation, and code snippets from a single OpenAPI specification. This ensures consistency across all clients, accelerates feature and fix delivery, and significantly reduces maintenance efforts. By automating these tasks, developers can focus on building innovative features while maintaining high-quality API clients. Click here to learn more.

This update delivers significant improvements, including a new PHP API client, advanced revenue analytics, enhanced customer journey tracking with authenticated user tokens, streamlined virtual replica management, and Looking Similar recommendations. AlgoliaSearch for Adobe Commerce 3.14.0 provides tools to drive revenue growth and improve customer satisfaction. With enhanced analytics, businesses can better understand customer behavior and optimize product recommendations. The new PHP API client simplifies integration, while authenticated user tokens enable more accurate personalization. Streamlined virtual replica management offers greater control over search performance, and Looking Similar recommendations boost product discovery. Click here to learn more.

Recommend UI library components, such as Frequently Bought Together and Looking Similar, are now integrated into InstantSearch. This unification reduces fragmentation in Algolia’s frontend libraries, simplifying the development process and enhancing the customer experience. 

Learn more: InstantSearch Guide | API Reference | Launch Blog Post

Enhanced API client automation and documentation are now available in beta. This update addresses the challenge of manually synchronizing our numerous API clients, ensuring consistency and reliability across new feature releases. The automated approach includes an updated API client framework with a comprehensive test suite and enriched documentation featuring detailed code snippets for every method in all supported languages. This enhancement significantly improves the developer experience, allowing for more efficient integration and utilization of Algolia's customizable search and discovery platform. Click here to learn more.

Flutter Helper, a library for integrating seamless search experiences into Flutter applications, is now generally available. This transition marks the commitment to providing a stable, powerful tool that developers can rely on for building production-ready applications using our official Dart API client. Now covered by our support policy, Algolia for Flutter simplifies search logic and integrates features like autocomplete, faceting, sorting, and highlighting into Flutter apps. This ensures users find exactly what they’re looking for, enhancing the overall search experience and maximizing the potential of your applications. Learn more and get started with Flutter Helper here.