Blazing fast search engine showing relevant results after the first keystroke in your Jekyll blog. Based on Algolia Search + Typeahead.js <3

_config.yml

algolia:
  index_name: blog_posts
  application_id: *********
  search_only_api_key: ************************

Gemfile

gem 'jekyll'
gem 'github-pages'
gem 'algoliasearch'

layout.html

<input type="text" name="q" class="search-input" placeholder="Search" id="blog-search-input" />

<script src="/assets/algoliasearch.min"></script>
<script src="/assets/typeahead.min"></script> <!-- see Algolia's fork: https://github.com/algolia/algoliasearch-client-js#quick-start -->
<script>
  var apiClient = new AlgoliaSearch('{{ site.algolia.application_id }}', '{{ site.algolia.search_only_api_key }}');
  var idx = apiClient.initIndex('{{ site.algolia.index_name }}');

  function go() {
    idx.search($('#blog-search-input').val(), function(success, content) {
      if (success && content.hits.length > 0) {
        // for now, go to the first match
        window.location.href = content.hits[0].url;
      }
    });
  }

  $('#blog-search-input').typeahead({
    name: 'blogposts',
    remote: idx.getTypeaheadTransport(),
    valueKey: 'title',
  }).on('keydown', function(e) {
    if (e.which == 13) {
      go();
    }
  }).on('typeahead:selected', function(e) {
    go();
  }).focus();
</script>

Rakefile

require "rubygems"
require "tmpdir"

require "bundler/setup"
require "jekyll"
require "algoliasearch"

GITHUB_REPONAME = "username/project"

namespace :site do
  jekyll_config = Jekyll.configuration(source: '.', destination: '_site')
  jekyll_site = Jekyll::Site.new(jekyll_config)

  desc "Generate blog files"
  task :generate do
    jekyll_site.process
  end

  desc "Generate, index and publish blog to gh-pages"
  task :publish, [:algolia_api_key] => :generate do |t, args|
    raise "missing algolia_api_key argument" if args[:algolia_api_key].nil?
    
    # send all title/urls to Algolia's indexing API
    Algolia.init application_id: jekyll_config['algolia']['application_id'], api_key: args[:algolia_api_key]
    idx = Algolia::Index.new(jekyll_config['algolia']['index_name'])
    idx.set_settings attributesToIndex: ['title', 'unordered(url)']
    idx.clear! rescue "not fatal"
    idx.add_objects jekyll_site.posts.map { |post| { title: post.title, url: post.url } }

    # publish to github
    Dir.mktmpdir do |tmp|
      cp_r "_site/.", tmp
      Dir.chdir tmp
      system "git init"
      system "git add ."
      message = "Site updated at #{Time.now.utc}"
      system "git commit -m #{message.inspect}"
      system "git remote add origin git@github.com:#{GITHUB_REPONAME}.git"
      system "git push origin master:refs/heads/gh-pages --force"
    end
  end
end