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API client / Methods / Recommend
Required API Key: any key with the search ACL
Method signature
$recommendClient->getRecommendations(array requests)

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About this method

Get recommendations from any Algolia recommendation model.

To get recommendations for specific models, use the specific methods instead—for example, getRelatedProducts, getTrendingItems, or getFrequentlyBoughtTogether.

Examples

Read the Algolia CLI documentation for more information.

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$recommendations = $recommendClient->getRecommendations([
  [
    'indexName' => 'your_index_name',
    'objectID' => 'your_object_id',
    'model' => 'bought-together',
  ],
]);

Parameters

Parameter Description
requests
type: array of request object
Required

List of request objects.

requests âž” request object

The parameters for the request body depend on the requested model. The following parameters are common to all models.

Parameter Description
indexName
type: string
Required

Name of the index.

model
type: "related-products" | "bought-together" | "trending-items" | "trending-facets"
Required

Name of the recommendation model to use.

threshold
type: number
Required

Threshold for the recommendations confidence score (between 0 and 100). Only recommendations with a greater score are returned.

maxRecommendations
type: integer

Number of recommendations to retrieve. Depending on the available recommendations and the other request parameters, the actual number of recommendations may be lower than that. If you don’t set maxRecommendations or set it to 0, all matching recommendations are returned, and no fallback request is performed.

requests âž” request object with bought-together

{
  indexName: "YourIndexName",
  model: "bought-together",
  threshold: 0,
  maxRecommendations: 10,
  objectID: "an objectID",
  queryParameters: { query parameters },
}

Get recommendations from the ‘bought-together’ model given an object ID.

Parameter Description
objectID
type: string
Required

Object ID for which to get recommendations.

queryParameters
type: object
Optional

Search parameters for filtering the recommendations.

{
  indexName: "YourIndexName",
  model: "related-products",
  threshold: 0,
  maxRecommendations: 10,
  objectID: "an objectID",
  queryParameters: { query parameters },
  fallbackParameters: { query parameters }
}

Get recommendations from the ‘related-products’ model given an object ID.

Parameter Description
objectID
type: string
Required

Object ID for which to get recommendations.

queryParameters
type: object
Optional

Search parameters for filtering the recommendations.

fallbackParameters
type: object
Optional

Search parameters to use as fallback when there are no recommendations.

{
  indexName: "YourIndexName",
  model: "trending-items",
  threshold: 0,
  maxRecommendations: 10,
  facetName: "a facet attribute name",
  facetValue: "a facet value",
  queryParameters: { query parameters },
  fallbackParameters: { query parameters }
}

Fetch trending items, either globally or only those matching a specific facet. The following parameters are specific to model ‘trending-items’. If no facet is provided, the query fetches globally trending items.

Parameter Description
facetName
type: string
Optional

Facet attribute for which to get recommendations. This parameter must be used together with facetValue.

facetValue
type: string
Optional

Facet value for which to get recommendations for. This parameter must be used along with facetName.

queryParameters
type: object
Optional

Search parameters for filtering the recommendations.

fallbackParameters
type: object
Optional

Search parameters to use as fallback when there are no recommendations.

{
  indexName: "YourIndexName",
  model: "trending-facets",
  threshold: 0,
  maxRecommendations: 10,
  facetName: "a facet attribute name",
}

Fetch trending facet values given a specific facet attribute. The following parameters are specific to model ‘trending-facets’.

Parameter Description
facetName
type: string
Required

Facet attribute for which to get recommendations.

Response

This section shows the JSON response returned by the API. Each API client encapsulates this response inside objects specific to the programming language, so that the actual response might be different. You can view the response by using the getLogs method. Don’t rely on the order of attributes in the response, as JSON doesn’t guarantee the ordering of keys in objects.

JSON format

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{
  "results": [
    {
      "hits": [
        {
          "_highlightResult": {
            "category": {
              "matchLevel": "none",
              "matchedWords": [],
              "value": "Men - T-Shirts"
            },
            "image_link": {
              "matchLevel": "none",
              "matchedWords": [],
              "value": "https://example.org/image/D05927-8161-111-F01.jpg"
            },
            "name": {
              "matchLevel": "none",
              "matchedWords": [],
              "value": "Jirgi Half-Zip T-Shirt"
            }
          },
          "_score": 32.72,
          "category": "Men - T-Shirts",
          "image_link": "https://example.org/image/D05927-8161-111-F01.jpg",
          "name": "Jirgi Half-Zip T-Shirt",
          "objectID": "D05927-8161-111",
          "position": 105,
          "url": "men/t-shirts/d05927-8161-111"
        }
      ],
      "processingTimeMS": 1,
    }
  ]
}
Field Description
results
array of result

List of results in the order they were submitted, one per query.

{
  "results": [
    {
      "hits": [
        {
          ...,
          _score: 32.72
        }
      ],
    },
  ]
}

results âž” result

The results object contains the same hits object as in the search method augmented by a _score attribute.

Field Description
_score
number

Confidence score of the recommended item. The closer it is to 100, the more relevant.

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