honkit-plugin-elasticsearch

This plugin provides a backend for the search plugin.

Usage

Gitbook comes with default search option. In order to use this plugin, need to disable lunr plugins and add elasticsearch as bellow:

"plugins": [
    "-lunr",
    "elasticsearch"
  ]

add the following plugin configurations in book.json

{
   "pluginsConfig": {
     "elasticsearch": {
       "host" : "http://your-elasticsearch:9200",
       "index" : "your-index",
       "apiKey" : "your-apikey",
       "maxResults" : 30,
     }
   }
}

Building your gitbook will generate a search index file in _book directory. Insert the index file into your elasticsearch.

curl -XPOST "http://your-elasticsearch:9200/your-index/_bulk" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-binary @_book/search_index.json

Adding keywords to a page

You can specify explicit keywords for any page. When searching for these keywords, the page will rank higher in the results.

---
search:
    keywords: ['keyword1', 'keyword2', 'etc.']

---

# My Page

This page will rank better if we search for 'keyword1'.

Disabling indexing of a page

You can disable the indexing of a specific page by adding a YAML header to the page:

---
search: false
---

# My Page

This page is not indexed in Elasticsearch.