# Using algolia with multiple indices **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Tags:** algolia-search\ **Created:** [March 7, 2023, 8:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-algolia-with-multiple-indices/257338 "2023-03-07T08:07:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![M.Anderson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@M.Anderson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/M.Anderson)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-algolia-with-multiple-indices/257338/2 "2023-03-09T16:17:02Z")
Here is one example: **First index** is showing community-content, like we have now. **Second index** is showing external page. For each new index other then discourse we could show a new grouping. Maybe we could insert a list, which indices we would like to show on frontend to not use all existing ones available within search-API. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/7/8/b78cc3a251ca0547a82941eee313e673286bbf8f.png) Maybe it is possible to reach such a goal using multiple indices. Algolia themselves are also having such a search, even with a preview. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/5/d/65d604fc2c6d2fe57271731528d6c5b5305fa980.png) Algolia has a UI & UX Pattern for this using InstantSearch.js: > **[Multi-index search - Algolia](https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/building-search-ui/ui-and-ux-patterns/multi-index-search/js)** > > Searching multiple indices in your InstantSearch.js app. So the question is: What can we offer right now with plugin discourse-algolia? - Is it right now only able to use the three discourse-indices? - Would it be a new feature to use other indices? - Or do we need to manipulate existing discourse-index “discourse-posts” so it will also show “foreign entries”? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-algolia-with-multiple-indices/257338)._