Add fast full-text search to Bubble with a client-side MiniSearch element for web and a server-side Search Records action for backend and mobile workflows. Index your Bubble Things, search across multiple fields, and return ranked matches with optional highlights, prefix matching, and fuzzy search.
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MiniSearch gives you two practical ways to add search in Bubble depending on where the search needs to run. On web pages, use the MiniSearch Index element to build a client-side index from a list of Things, react to query changes, weight fields, bind to an input by HTML id, and expose live states for matched results, result count, highlights, suggestions, and serialized index data.

For backend workflows and mobile use cases, use the Search Records server-side action. Pass in a list of Things, choose the fields to index, and get back matched results, result count, indexed count, error handling, and optional highlighted values. This makes it useful for API workflows, mobile apps, backend triggers, and any workflow where you want Bubble-native search without depending on the page element.

The plugin supports prefix search, fuzzy search, minimum query length rules, optional return-all-on-empty behavior, custom highlight tags, and capped result counts. On the element side, you can also maintain the index over time by adding records, discarding records, replacing records, vacuuming the index, exporting index JSON, and loading a serialized index back in.

Actions and elements included:
- MiniSearch Index element
- Search Records server-side action
- Element actions: Set Query, Clear Query, Rebuild Index
- Index maintenance actions: Add Records, Discard Records, Replace Records, Vacuum Index
- Serialization actions: Export Index JSON, Load Index JSON
- Element events: Index Ready, Results Changed, Suggestions Changed, Search Failed