Boost new Webflow launches in Algolia search for 14 days

Every hour, find newly published Webflow CMS items and give each one a temporary Algolia search boost so launches actually surface for their first two weeks.

Start by calling Webflow's List Collection Items Live for each of a configured list of collections (typically products, articles, and case studies). Filter to items whose published date falls within the last hour. If nothing new turned up, skip straight to cleanup.

For every newly published item, first call Algolia's Get Record on the target index using the item's identifier as the objectID. If no matching record exists yet, skip the item and log why — never create a rule that pins a ghost objectID.

For each item whose Algolia record does exist, derive a short list of relevance-appropriate search terms from the item's title, tags, and SKU. Use title words with stopwords removed, exact tag matches, and the SKU itself when it is the sort of thing a shopper would actually type. Keep the list tight and on-target rather than exhaustive.

Then call Algolia's Save Rule to create a query rule that pins or strongly boosts the item's objectID whenever a search matches one of those terms. Stamp the rule with a time-based validity window of 14 days from the publish date so Algolia stops applying it on its own once the launch window closes. Give the rule a recognizable objectID prefix (for example autoboost_) so the cleanup step can find its own rules later.

At the end of every run, call Algolia's Search Rules on the same index, filter to rules whose objectID starts with the launch-boost prefix and whose validity window has already closed, and call Delete Rule for each expired rule so the ruleset does not grow over time.

The workflow should be safe to re-run every hour: never create a duplicate rule for the same item, and never delete a rule that was not auto-created by this workflow.