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Set up Meilisearch for Laravel Scout

Meilisearch is a powerful search engine for your application, working perfectly with Laravel Scout. It allows you to add a search engine with great relevancy, typo correction, and more to your application by simply adding the Searchable Trait to a model.

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Connecting from your Laravel application

Like with all Herd services, you can configure the port as well as the service name of your Meilisearch instance and add the following environment variables to your .env file.

SCOUT_DRIVER=meilisearch
MEILISEARCH_HOST=http://127.0.0.1:7700
MEILISEARCH_KEY=LARAVEL-HERD

When using the Meilisearch driver you will need to install the Meilisearch PHP SDK via the composer package manager:

composer require meilisearch/meilisearch-php http-interop/http-factory-guzzle

You can find additional information about using Laravel Scout with Meilisearch in the Laravel documentation.

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Using Meilisearch

You can open the Meilisearch Dashboard or the logs of the service from the right side of the service details.

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Dashboard

The Meilisearch dashboard is accessible via http://locahost:port or by using the dashboard button in the services list.