Shopify Algolia global events

The global events emitted by the InstantSearch and Autocomplete libraries.

The events algolia.instantsearch.hitClickAction and algolia.autocomplete.hitClickAction are deprecated since March 31, 2025. Use the beforeInstantSearchProductTemplate and beforeAutocompleteProductTemplate events instead.

The InstantSearch and Autocomplete libraries emit global events. You can’t pass data to the global events but you can listen to them.

• algolia.autocomplete.beforeInit.

  Emitted before the Autocomplete library is initialized.

• algolia.autocomplete.afterInit.

  Emitted after the Autocomplete library is initialized

• algolia.autocomplete.hitClickAction (deprecated).

  Deprecated. Use beforeAutocompleteProductTemplate for adding click events. Emitted when a user clicks on an Autocomplete result

• algolia.instantsearch.beforeInit.

  Emitted before the InstantSearch library is initialized.

• algolia.instantSearch.afterInit.

  Emitted after the InstantSearch library is initialized.

• algolia.instantsearch.hitClickAction (deprecated).

  Deprecated. Use beforeInstantSearchProductTemplate for adding click events Emitted when a user clicks on an InstantSearch result

• algolia.instantSearch.onError.

  Emitted when the InstantSearch library reports an error.

• algolia.instantSearch.onRender.

  Emitted when all InstantSearch widgets have been rendered.

• algolia.instantsearch.beforeInitSortOrders.

  Emitted before InstantSearch sorting is initialized.

• algolia.instantsearch.beforeInitFacets.

  Emitted before InstantSearch facets are initialized.

• algolia.hooks.initialize.

  Emitted before Algolia hooks have been initialized.

• algolia.analytics.beforeInit.

  Emitted before the Algolia Insights API has been initialized.

Example

JavaScript

document.addEventListener("algolia.autocomplete.afterInit", function () {
  console.log("Autocomplete.js has been initialized");
});