The Search guide

Set up Dbrij Search step by step: what you need, what to press, and how you know each step worked.

Set up Search, step by step

By the end your site has instant search that forgives typos, and you can see what people look for.

Before you start, have these ready

Some JSON: products, articles, anything with an id.
A developer. Search goes into your site with a few lines of code.

Create an index
Name it after what it holds, such as products, and choose the fields to search. Every setting has a working default.
Create index
Create two keys
Admin for your server, search only for your front end. The search only key is safe in the browser; the admin key is not.
Open API keys
Push documents
POST JSON to the index with the admin key, or add a few from the index page to try it. Sending the same id again replaces that document, so keeping it in sync takes one call. The Docs page has examples ready to copy, for pushing and for the search box on your site.
Open Docs
Tune in the playground
Weights, typos and filters, live. Type searches and tune which fields matter most while you watch the results change.
Open playground
You will know it worked when your test searches return the right results first.
Watch analytics
Especially the searches that found nothing: each one is somebody who wanted something you do not have yet, or calls it by another name.
Open analytics

Questions people ask

Does Search change my database?

Which key goes in my website?

How each part works

What Search is

Search stores your documents in indexes with rules for relevance. Front ends query with a search only key; servers push with an admin key. Analytics keeps only the query text.

Push JSON into an index, then query it from anywhere, with typo tolerance, filters, sorting and results that feel instant.

Good to know

Free stops at the cap instead of billing.
Past a ceiling, adding stops at once; searching stops after a week.
Search only keys are safe to ship publicly.

Analytics shows what people search for, and what they searched for and did not find.
Search has its own plans and its own Billing page in the Search menu.

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Everything on Dbrij

Dbrij Projects: Fund milestones into escrow, lock acceptance criteria, and release money only when work is approved. Project management where payment is part of the process.
Dbrij Meetings: HD video meetings with live captions, recordings and Deputy, the AI attendee that writes notes and turns action items into tasks.
Dbrij Slots: Share a booking link, let clients pick a time, and meet on Dbrij. Availability rules, reminders and video calls in one flow.
Dbrij Office: A personal voice and video room with an open door. Teammates drop in, knock, or wait in the hallway, just like a real office.
Dbrij Mail: Email at yourcompany.com inside Dbrij. Mailboxes, shared aliases, DKIM and deliverability handled, connected to chat and tasks.
Dbrij Arena: Company games with real leaderboards, badges and kudos. Trivia and challenges your whole team can join from chat.
Dbrij HQ: Team chat, tasks, meetings with notes that write themselves, and everybody in the company on one record. A message becomes a task, a meeting hands out its own actions, and nothing falls between three tools.
Dbrij Chat: Direct messages, groups and calls for your company. Turn any message into a task, run a poll or start a call inside the conversation, on the web and on your phone.
Dbrij Access: Roles, capabilities, direct grants with expiry and a full audit trail. See and control exactly who can do what across every Dbrij product.
Dbrij Hosting: Push code and Dbrij builds, deploys and watches it. Managed databases, custom domains, TLS, backups, uptime alerts and SEO tools.
Dbrij Docs: Write documents, build spreadsheets and present slides inside Dbrij. Versioned files, e-signatures with external signers, and Deputy editing help.
Dbrij Finance: Invoices, requisitions, bills, petty cash, payslips, books and the full Nigerian tax picture with VAT, PAYE, WHT and CIT estimates in one place.
Dbrij Pulse: Every product your company uses rolled into one live dashboard, and every company you run side by side with a briefing from Deputy. Ask questions about your own numbers in plain language.
Dbrij HR: Employee files, org chart, leave, onboarding, reviews, letters and a public careers page. HR that executes instead of reminding.
Dbrij Proof: Proof reads your repository, maps every feature, then probes the live app so you know what works before your customers find out.
Dbrij Resolve: A support desk with a website widget, portal and email in. Tickets close only when the customer confirms the fix.
Dbrij Reach: Doors, QR codes, email campaigns, forms and referral rewards that tie real revenue to real sources. Attribution from paid invoices, not vanity clicks.
Dbrij Glass: Session replay, click and scroll heatmaps, rage click detection, funnels and retention. One script tag, inputs masked by default, no cookies.
Dbrij Leads: Contacts, deals and a pipeline board for your company. Bookings, emails and paid invoices become leads and timelines automatically.
Dbrij Ship: Over the air updates, feature flags and remote config for mobile apps. Push signed bundles to React Native and Capacitor apps, flags on every stack, rollouts that halt themselves.
Dbrij Auth: The security layer of Dbrij: one tap sign in approvals with number matching on your phone, passkeys, offline codes and recovery that actually recovers. Free with every account.
Dbrij Send: Send transactional and marketing email through one API from your own domain. A timeline on every message, broadcasts, automations and webhooks, with 3,000 free emails a month.
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Dbrij Forms: Build forms with conditional questions, file uploads, payments and signatures, then route every response to a task, a lead, a ticket or a candidate instead of a spreadsheet row. Charts, drop off analytics and offline collection included.
Dbrij Search: Put real search in front of your own data: typo tolerant, faceted and ranked, answered in milliseconds through one API call. A search only key is safe in a browser, and the free plan needs no card.
Dbrij Notes: Write pages built from blocks, nest subpages into a company wiki, and never press save. Version history included, and Notes is free for everyone on Dbrij.
Dbrij Storage: Buckets any S3 tool can reach and a drive anyone can use, on one allowance. Versioning, lifecycle rules, signed links, access keys, and monthly transfer included. Five gigabytes free.
Dbrij Source: Host private git repositories with reviews, protected branches and backups you can actually restore, beside everything else your company runs on Dbrij.
Dbrij Registry: Check your business name with CAC for free, register a business name or a company, and have NGOs and company changes filed by an accredited partner. Dbrij follows it until the certificate is in your Drive.
Dbrij Secrets: Keep your app keys and environment variables encrypted in your browser, with a key for each environment, every change kept, and roles for who can read or write. Dbrij stores them and cannot read them.
Dbrij Forge: Describe the app you need and Forge builds a running one, with the code kept in your own repository so you are never locked in.
Dbrij Domains: Register domains including .ng, manage DNS, and connect them to hosting and company email with one click.
Dbrij Developer API: Add video meetings, chat, transactional email and support to your own product with a few REST calls. Keys, webhooks and usage billing included.

The Search guide

Set up Search, step by step

Create an index

Create two keys

Push documents

Tune in the playground

Watch analytics