Thomas Seidl joins me to talk about Search API and some of its add-on modules that improve search in Drupal.

Search API

• What does the Search API do that Drupal core doesn’t do?
• Where did this project get started? and why?
• Is there a possibility of getting this into D8 core?
• Search Views
  • How does this integrate with Views?
• Search Facets
  • What are Facets?

Add-on Modules

Backends for the Search API

• Solr search
• Database search
• Fuzzy Search
• Xapian
• Sarnia
• Mongo DB backend

Add-ons by Thomas

• Search pages
• Multi-index searches
• Saved searches
• Autocomplete

Add-ons by other maintainers

• Search API attachments
• Extended search page
• Pretty Facets Paths
• Search API ranges
• Search API sorts
• Search API context
• Search API AJAX
• Search API Location
• Search API live results

Questions from Twitter

• Damien McKenna (@DamienMcKenna): Any hopes to merge with ApacheSolr so one generic solution for searching rather than Solr getting so much direct development?
• Damien McKenna: Any plans to add a storage-engine agnostic "more like this" feature?