Site Search for TYPO3
A free extension that gives your TYPO3 13 or 14 site enterprise site search: words and meaning in one ranking, facets, autocomplete, analytics, documents and PDFs, real-time sync, SEO tags, a sitemap and an out of the box chat bot that answers from your site. The searches run on Opensolr, not on your server.
Let Visitors Talk to Your Site
An out of the box chat bot that answers from your pages and documents, and links every one it mentions. Opensolr runs it: nothing to install on your server.
- Answers from your contentThe chat searches your Opensolr Index, the same one the extension fills for your search page, and writes the answer from what it finds, word by word, in the visitor's own language. Every page and PDF page it mentions is linked. When your site does not have the answer, it says so.
- Facts it never guessesToday's date, the local time anywhere, exchange rates, VAT rates and VAT numbers, distances, postal codes and places are looked up, never made up. What it can look up
- Commands that answer at once
/search,/time,/rate,/vat,/distance,/translateand more: typing/lists them. Commands - Yours to set, and to watchYour own instructions, the look of the chat window and limits per visitor; stats and the history of every conversation, so you see what people ask and what your site does not answer yet. Settings, stats and history
On in four steps
The extension has a Chat Bot tab that opens the Chat Bot of your index in one click:
- Open the Chat Bot tab of the extension and click Open the Chat Bot of your index.
- List the domains of your site.
- Switch on Show the chat on the hosted search page and on your Drupal or WordPress site (it covers TYPO3 too).
- Click Save settings. The chat is on every page of your site.
It answers with the AI requests of your plan: 500 a month on every plan, more on Pricing.
Everything Your Search Needs
Six things the extension gives your site. Each links to the page that explains it.
Hybrid search
The words people type and what they mean count in one ranking. Hybrid search
AI Hints, AI Reader & Chat Bot
A short answer written from your own pages, any result read as clean text with a summary you can download as a PDF, and a chat bot that talks to your visitors. AI Hints · AI Reader · Chat Bot
Facets & autocomplete
Lists, min/max sliders, date ranges and drill-down categories, plus suggestions as visitors type. Facets
Real-time sync & documents
Every page, content element and file reaches your index the moment you save it, PDFs page by page. Real-Time Sync · Documents
Analytics & elevation
Queries, clicks and searches with no results in your TYPO3 database; pin or exclude results per query. Analytics · Elevation
SEO tags & sitemap
Open Graph, Twitter Card, canonical and description tags on every page, and a sitemap at /opensolr-sitemap.xml. SEO
Up and Running in Four Steps
Install, connect, fill, search. Installation · Setup
Install
composer require opensolr/typo3-opensolr-search, then extension:setup.
Connect
Your Opensolr email and API key, a region: the index is created for you.
Fill it
Let Opensolr crawl your sitemap, or push your pages and files with Data Ingestion.
Search
Your visitors search at /opensolr-search.
How It Compares
TYPO3 Indexed Search next to Opensolr Search.
| Feature | TYPO3 Indexed Search | Opensolr Search |
|---|---|---|
| Relevance ranking | Word matching in your database | BM25 + AI vectors |
| Faceted navigation | ✗ | ✓ List, slider, date, hierarchy |
| Autocomplete | ✗ | ✓ Suggestions + results |
| AI-powered answers | ✗ | ✓ AI Hints + AI Reader |
| Chat bot on your site | ✗ | ✓ Answers from your content, run by Opensolr |
| Search analytics | ✗ | ✓ Queries, clicks, CTR |
| Real-time sync | Re-index runs on your server | ✓ Every save sent at once |
| Document search (PDF, DOCX) | External tools on your server | ✓ Full text extraction, scanned PDFs and pictures read with OCR in 100+ languages (live demo) |
| Query elevation (pin/exclude) | ✗ | ✓ Visual controls |
| Dark theme | ✗ | ✓ Built-in |
| Highlighting | ✗ | ✓ Term highlighting |
| SEO meta tags | ✗ | ✓ Open Graph, Twitter Card, canonical, description |
| Server load | Indexing and every search run on your server | Searches run on Opensolr, zero indexing load |
| Multilingual (site languages) | Per language | ✓ Auto locale filtering |
Ready to Transform Your TYPO3 Search?
Install the extension with Composer and your search is live in minutes. The free plan and every current plan include a monthly allowance of AI requests for AI Hints, AI Reader, search by meaning and the chat bot (500 a month to start; more on Pricing).
How the extension fills your index and what your site gets: TYPO3: Opensolr Search extension · the source on GitHub · Enterprise Site Search