Det hade varit coolt och användbart att kunna söka på den nya hemsidan. Kunna söka på nyheter, events, eller kanske till och med i våra styrdokument.

Ish planen:

1. Content Analysis

• Website Content: Go through and create records of the informations in the databases in the backend. For example, news, events etc.
• PDF Documents: List all PDFs available on the site that need to be searchable.

2. Text Extraction

• PDF Parsing: Utilize libraries such as PyPDF2 to extract text from PDFs.

3. Indexing

• Search Engine Selection:
  • Elasticsearch: A distributed, open-source search and analytics engine.
  • Algolia: An alternative to do this, free to 1 M records and 10 000 searches.
• Data Structuring: Organize extracted text into a structured format (records) suitable for indexing.

4. Backend Integration

• API Development: Create endpoints to handle search queries and return results.

• Data Synchronization: Ensure the search index is updated with new or modified content.

Additional tips:

• Highlight Matching Terms: Many search engines (like Elasticsearch) provide options to highlight matching terms in the results.
• Pagination: Add pagination to avoid loading all results at once.

Updates:

** 11/11 2024 **
I have decided to try to use elastic search for this implementation.