Community Apps

Meilisearch

By OrcVole

Lightning-fast, typo-tolerant search API for your own apps and data

1.54.0 4096MB Updated 25 Sep 2026
search api developer
Install this app
In your Cloudron dashboard, open the App Store, choose "Community apps" and paste this URL:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OrcVole/meilisearch-cloudron/main/CloudronVersions.json

Description

1.54.0

Meilisearch is an open source, typo-tolerant search engine written in Rust. It indexes your documents and serves fast, relevant full-text search, filtering, and sorting over a simple REST API, which makes it a building block for application search, site search, and chat or knowledge base search, without the operational weight of a larger search platform.

This package runs Meilisearch on Cloudron as a headless search API, always in production mode:

  • No dashboard, no single sign-on, and no interactive login screen sit in front of the API, because the application exists to serve programmatic clients, and a login wall would break every one of them.
  • GET /health stays open with no credential, which is what the platform uses to judge whether the application is running. Every other route requires a master key, generated on first launch, or a scoped key minted from it.
  • The Meilisearch data store is treated as the database it is: it lives on a Cloudron persistentDirs path so its constant background churn stays clear of the ordinary backup file walk, while a snapshot taken through the application's own API rides the regular backup, and is imported back automatically on a clone or a restore.

This is a community package. It tracks upstream Meilisearch releases and keeps the upstream binary unmodified. Meilisearch and the Meilisearch name and logo are trademarks of their respective owner. This package is community-maintained and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Meilisearch project.

Meilisearch itself is dual licensed (MIT for the core engine, Business Source License 1.1 for a smaller enterprise edition subset). This package configures and runs only the MIT-licensed community engine and enables no enterprise edition feature.

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Recent Changes

  • Tenant tokens, for apps that give each of their users a search limited to their own documents.

  • Set MEILISEARCH_TENANT_TOKEN_KEY=true in /app/data/env and restart: the app creates a

  • search-only signing key and writes it to /app/data/tenant-token-signing-key.env. Setting it back

  • to false deletes the key and revokes every token it signed. meili-token.sh in the Terminal signs,

  • decodes and tests tokens, and manages per-app signing keys. See docs/TENANT-TOKENS.md.

  • A backup now records which dump it completed, in /app/data/dumps/latest, and a rebuild imports

  • that dump rather than whichever is newest, so a half-written dump is never used. Backups made

  • before 1.3.0 have no pointer and fall back to the newest dump, as before.

  • The tooling and the dump pointer are james's, ported from his package with thanks.