Re-index Autocomplete index with cron job?

I have to believe there’s a way, but I’m not finding an example just yet. Mostly I was trying to dig in to how the plugin handles the re-index button in the admin and what code gets executed in that process, so that it could be repeated in your cron job.

Hi Michael,

thank you! Let me know if you find something ??
I will check for a solution as well.

If there is anyone with an idea for the problem… I would be very happy ??

Discussed some things internally and came up with some possible ideas.

If you’re willing/able to do a real cron job, and not WordPress’ “cron” job, you could use something like WP-CLI. We ship with this command available:

NAME

  wp algolia reindex

DESCRIPTION

  Push all records to Algolia for a given index.

SYNOPSIS

  wp algolia reindex [<indexName>] [--clear] [--all]

ALIAS

  re-index

OPTIONS

  [<indexName>]
    The id of the index without the prefix.

  [--clear]
    Clear all existing records prior to pushing the records.

  [--all]
    Re-indexes all the enabled indices.

Regarding the re-index buttons in the admin, they’re apparently handled via some “javascript shenanigans” and wouldn’t necessarily be readily available to PHP/WP Cron.

“Otherwise, we do not yet have any sort of built-in WP-Cron, because re-indexing in WP-Cron would be prone to timeouts and/or out of memory errors, if you have a lot of posts”

Hi Michael,

thank you for your reply!
Unfortunately we’ve no WP-CLI available on the server ??

Isn’t there any other way to trigger the button.
It doesn’t have to be with the WP-Cron.
If it helps we could use a service like easycron.

Despite it not being available now, it should be pretty easy to download a copy of WP-CLI as long as you have SSH access into the server.

https://wp-cli.org/#installing

Beyond that, I’d need to re-try to reverse engineer the code to see if there’s any way to programmatically trigger those parts.