Filtering results with Algolia/Laravel on the server side using the numericFilter param.

Ok I think I got it, I was reviewing this class

\AlgoliaSearch\Index and at the "search" method it accepts an $args parameter which defaults to null, but here is where you specify the filtering, in my case I needed a facetFilter for the status attribute of the document as published (don't ask), therefore I called this way

    News::search($request->input('query'),['facetFilters' => ['status:published']]);

The first argument it the normal query string for the search and the second are my $args.

but at least for the faceFilters I needed to configure the $algoliaSettings property of my "News" class which uses the "AlgoliaEloquentTrait" and add the "attributesForFaceting" element with the list of attributes that should be available to use for faceting as follows

class News extends Model
{
    ...
    public $algoliaSettings = [
        'attributesToIndex' => [
            'title',
            ...
        ],
        'attributesToRetrieve' => [
            'id',
            'title',
            ...
        ],
        ...
        'attributesForFaceting' => [    //here you specify which attributes could be used on the facetFilters search args
            'status'
        ]
    ];

well, thats all, it is working for me, but I guess its not much different for the numericFilter, although you may not need to alter the $algoliaSettings property.

cheers.