How to exclude individual records from search results

If you're trying to hide specific products in your Algolia search results, and those products don’t share a common category, price, or other easily filterable attribute, a custom boolean field can be a flexible and scalable solution.

Recommended approach: Use a custom boolean attribute

To control product visibility at the individual record level, add a custom boolean attribute to each record, for example, "hidden", and assign a value of true or false.

• Set "hidden": true for items you want to exclude from search results.

• Set "hidden": false (or omit the attribute) for items you want to include.

You can then filter out hidden items either with a filtering expression or via Rules, depending on your use case.

Example record with a hidden attribute:

{
  "objectID": "123",
  "name": "Example Product",
  "hidden": true
}

Resources for implementation

• Set up a Rule to hide results

• Filter by boolean attributes

• Update multiple records with new attributes

This method gives you full control over visibility at the record level, even when the products aren't related by any shared attribute.