This is documentation for v4 of the JavaScript API clients, which is not the latest version. To see the documentation for the latest version, see JavaScript v5.

Required API Key: any key with the settings ACL

Method signature
index.getSettings()

index.getSettings({
  // Any other requestOptions
})

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About this method # A

Retrieve index settings.

Find the list of settings in the Settings API parameters page.

The response only includes values for settings that aren’t null.

Examples # A

Retrieve settings for an index#

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index.getSettings().then(settings => {
  console.log(settings);
});

Parameters # A

requestOptions #
type: key/value mapping
default: No request options
Optional

A mapping of request options to send along with the request.

Response # A

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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{
  "minWordSizefor1Typo": 4,
  "minWordSizefor2Typos": 8,
  "hitsPerPage": 20,
  "maxValuesPerFacet": 100,
  "searchableAttributes": [
    "title",
    "description",
    "author_name"
  ],
  "numericAttributesToIndex": null,
  "attributesToRetrieve": null,
  "unretrievableAttributes": null,
  "optionalWords": null,
  "attributesForFaceting": null,
  "attributesToSnippet": null,
  "attributesToHighlight": null,
  "paginationLimitedTo": 1000,
  "attributeForDistinct": null,
  "exactOnSingleWordQuery": "attribute",
  "ranking": [
    "typo",
    "geo",
    "words",
    "filters",
    "proximity",
    "attribute",
    "exact",
    "custom"
  ],
  "customRanking": null,
  "separatorsToIndex": "",
  "removeWordsIfNoResults": "none",
  "queryType": "prefixLast",
  "highlightPreTag": "<em>",
  "highlightPostTag": "<\/em>",
  "alternativesAsExact": [
    "ignorePlurals",
    "singleWordSynonym"
  ]
}

This response example contains a non-exhaustive list of index settings that can be returned. See the full list.

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