More permissive API key for the demo server(s)

[tacman]

I just discovered the steam games index on the meiliserver at https://ms-adf78ae33284-106.lon.meilisearch.io/ as I work through some of the demos, especially instasearch.

I can't find the code to create that index though, and I'm wondering if 'movies' (the other common example) are also available. Plus, I'm curious about the 'settings', like genre and whatever else might be available.

Would you consider making the key more permissive, so that the listing of the public indexes on that server were available, and a way to query the settings?

I didn't realize readonly keys even existed, but now I'm trying to convert my own indexes, so I can share the readonly access points with my remote developers without having the share the master key.

[tacman]

Related: I'd like to know what permissions are available based on the key. That is, the endpoint to reveal key details should not require an admin key, but rather just the key itself.

That way the UI can respond accordingly, given just a key.

[macraig]

Hi @tacman, coincidentally, we're currently working on adding a default read-only API key for management. That said, this won’t affect the demos you mentioned, since they’re running on an older Meilisearch version.

However, we can manually generate read-only keys and share them in the repos. I believe you were particularly interested in the Steam Games and Where2Watch demos?

[tacman]

Yes, please!  I have readonly keys now set up on my instances, so I can finally use InstantSearch!  
My code reads the settings and generates the sidebar from the facets/filters. I've mentioned in another issue that I'd like to embed schema-settings, but for now, the minimal "schema" is "these are the searchable fields, the display fields, and the filter/facet fields". And that's enough to create a UI.

• https://packages.survos.com/index/packages_Package
• https://packages.survos.com/index/kpa_Video
• https://packages.survos.com/index/m_px_victoria_obj
• https://packages.survos.com/index/dtdemo_Jeopardy

[tacman]

Also, moma. Actually, anything you're using in a demo. My code for all the repos above uses my readonly key to get the settings, and from the settings creates the facets (aka refinementList) and the "sort by". Then I just need to write the hitTemplate.

But if the settings are visible, I have to reverse engineer them from the search results.

Since there's nothing secret stored in settings, I'd like to see an even more permissive readonly key by default. If there's no secret indexes, then it'd be nice to see them too. I'd like to be able to enter the dashboard with a readonly key to explore the index (e.g. the moma index).

Thanks.