Search / Whats-On

The TicketSource event listings ("whats on"), powered by Meilisearch

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Infrastructure

AWS

• Ubuntu Instance (Meilisearch)
  • Security Groups:
    • Meilisearch (HTTPS TCP 7700 listening on 0.0.0.0)
    • SSH from RDP
• Target Group (meilisearch-target-group)
  • Target port: HTTP:7700
  • Health Check: /health (Meilisearch's health endpoint)
• Load Balancer (Meilisearch-load-balancer)
  • Security Groups:
    • HTTPS from Cloudflare

Cloudflare

• ticketsource.com zone DNS
  • CNAME search.ticketsource.com to AWS load balancer

Architecture

Indexes

Index	Description
events_PROD	The production index
events_DEV_SW	Simon Wilsher dev index
events_DEV_CF	Christian Freear dev index
events_DEV_CW	Chris Walton dev index

Index Settings

{
  "displayedAttributes": [
    "*"
  ],
  "searchableAttributes": [
    "*"
  ],
  "filterableAttributes": [
    "_geo",
    "promoterId",
    "eventId",
    "venueId",
    "performanceId",
    "genre",
    "location",
    "venue",
    "category",
    "timestamp",
    "filterTimestamp",
    "deletionTimestamp"
  ],
  "sortableAttributes": [
    "_geo",
    "filterTimestamp",
    "timestamp"
  ],
  "rankingRules": [
    "words",
    "typo",
    "proximity",
    "attribute",
    "sort",
    "exactness"
  ],
  "stopWords": [],
  "nonSeparatorTokens": [],
  "separatorTokens": [],
  "dictionary": [],
  "synonyms": {},
  "distinctAttribute": null,
  "proximityPrecision": "byWord",
  "typoTolerance": {
    "enabled": true,
    "minWordSizeForTypos": {
      "oneTypo": 5,
      "twoTypos": 9
    },
    "disableOnWords": [],
    "disableOnAttributes": [],
    "disableOnNumbers": false
  },
  "faceting": {
    "maxValuesPerFacet": 100,
    "sortFacetValuesBy": {
      "*": "alpha"
    }
  },
  "pagination": {
    "maxTotalHits": 1000
  },
  "embedders": {},
  "searchCutoffMs": null,
  "localizedAttributes": null,
  "facetSearch": true,
  "prefixSearch": "indexingTime"
}

Keys

Key Name	Actions	Indexes
Production Admin	documents.* settings.* stats.get	events_PROD
Production Search	search	events_PROD
Production Document CRUD	documents.*	events_PROD
Dev SWilsher Search	search	events_DEV_SW
Dev SWilsher Document CRUD	documents.*	events_DEV_SW
Dev CFreear Search	search	events_DEV_CF
Dev CFreear Document CRUD	documents.*	events_DEV_CF
Dev CWalton Search	search	events_DEV_CW
Dev CWalton Document CRUD	documents.*	events_DEV_CW

API

Base URL

https://search.ticketsource.com

Authentication

Set relevant API key as bearer token

Endpoints

Indexes

GET All

https://search.ticketsource.com/indexes

GET index settings

https://search.ticketsource.com/indexes/events_PROD/settings

Update (PATCH) Settings

https://search.ticketsource.com/indexes/events_PROD/settings

Example Body:

{
  "filterableAttributes": [
    "_geo",
    "promoterId",
    "eventId",
    "venueId",
    "performanceId",
    "genre",
    "location",
    "venue",
    "category",
    "timestamp",
    "filterTimestamp",
    "deletionTimestamp"
  ]
}

TIP

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