Run Meilisearch

You can run Meilisearch by starting a local instance either from the command line or from an image in a Docker container. Once the local instance is started, you can test PyMeilisearch locally.

Run Meilisearch using the command line

Before you can run a local instance of Meilisearch, you must install Meilisearch binaries with this command:

curl -L https://install.meilisearch.com | sh

Once the binaries are installed, start a local Meilisearch instance with these commands:

export MEILI_MASTER_KEY=$(uuidgen)
echo "MEILI_MASTER_KEY = $MEILI_MASTER_KEY"
./meilisearch --master-key="$MEILI_MASTER_KEY"

Run Meilisearch using a Docker image

In the PyMeilisearch repository, the docker/ directory contains the docker-compose.yml file.

This file allows you to use a Docker image to run a local instance of Meilisearch.

To use this Docker image to start a local Meilisearch instance on the host machine (http://localhost:7700), run these commands:

export MEILI_MASTER_KEY=$(uuidgen)
echo "MEILI_MASTER_KEY = $MEILI_MASTER_KEY"

docker compose run meilisearch