Search that understands your Drupal site
Real search, and an Ask mode that answers from your own pages with citations, on Drupal's own /search page. Each visitor sees only what Drupal lets them see.
Drupal search matches words, not meaning
Out of the box, Drupal search finds pages that contain the words someone typed. Misspell a word, use a synonym, or ask a question in plain language, and the page they needed never comes back.
Sharely.ai for Drupal answers your site's search by meaning instead. Your visitors keep using the same search box and the same /search page. What comes back is ranked by what they meant, and they can switch to Ask to get a written answer that cites the pages it came from.
Up and running in three steps
- 1
Install the module
Add it with Composer and apply the bundled recipe. The recipe turns on core search, sets up the default search page and grants visitors the permissions they need, in one action.
- 2
Connect to Sharely
From the module's settings, connect and sign in to Sharely, or create an account. Approve the site and you are returned to Drupal connected. There is no API key to paste.
- 3
Your content syncs
Published nodes are sent to your workspace in the background and kept in step as editors save. When the first sync finishes, /search is already being answered by Sharely.
What you get
Native to Drupal
A core Search plugin serves Drupal's own /search page and header search box. Nothing is embedded from outside your site.
Search or Ask
One choice at the search box: ranked results by meaning, or an answer written from your pages.
Answers with citations
Every Ask answer links back to the pages it came from, using the titles your editors wrote.
Themed like the rest of your site
The search experience is a Single Directory Component, so it takes your theme and can be overridden the Drupal way.
Kept in step
A background queue sends changes as content is saved, and a status page shows what has synced and what has not.
Ready for AI agents
The same knowledge your visitors search is available to AI agents, under the same access rules.
Visitors see only what Drupal lets them see
Your roles, mirrored
Drupal roles mirror to Sharely roles, and every page is tagged with the roles allowed to view it. An anonymous visitor gets anonymous results.
Identity stays server-side
Nothing about a visitor is rendered into cacheable HTML. Identity is minted on your server per request, so page caching stays safe.
Disconnect any time
Disconnecting stops the sync and returns your search page to Drupal core search.
Requirements
- Drupal 11.4 or later
- Composer, to install the module
- A Sharely.ai workspace, created for you when you connect
Powered by the Sharely.ai Platform
Sharely.ai for Drupal is one way into the platform. The same workspace can index your other sources of truth, run role agents in your systems of record, and tell your content team what people are actually asking.