What is meilisearch-dotnet?

Meilisearch .NET is a connector that lets developers building applications in C# or the broader .NET ecosystem add fast, typo-tolerant search to their products. Meilisearch itself is a standalone search engine, this package is the bridge that talks to it from .NET code. You install it as a standard package, point it at your Meilisearch instance (either self-hosted or running in the cloud), and then use simple calls to add documents and search through them. For example, you can hand it a list of movie records and then search for "philadalphia" (misspelled) and it will still return "Philadelphia." You can also filter results (e.g., only show action movies), sort by attributes, paginate with page numbers or offset/limit, and highlight matching terms in the output. The main audience is C# developers building apps that need search functionality, an e-commerce site with a product search bar, a documentation portal, or a media catalog. Instead of writing search logic from scratch or wrestling with a complex backend, they get typo-tolerant search up and running with a few lines of code. The package also supports managing indexes, checking task status (since document additions happen asynchronously), and swapping in a custom HTTP client if you need fine-grained control over networking. One tradeoff worth noting: some features from the latest Meilisearch engine may not yet be exposed in this .NET client, though it guarantees compatibility with Meilisearch v1.x. It targets .NET Standard 2.1, so it should work across most modern .NET projects.