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Implementing Video Search Autocomplete with PostgreSQL Trigrams

DEV Community·ahmet gedik·29 days ago
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Why Fuzzy Autocomplete Matters for European Content At ViralVidVault , we index video titles from 7 European regions. Users searching for a Swedish video might type "goteborg" instead of "Goteborg" or misspell a Dutch title. Standard LIKE queries fail hard on typos. PostgreSQL trigrams handle this gracefully. Setting Up pg_trgm CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS pg_trgm ; CREATE TABLE videos ( id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY , video_id VARCHAR ( 16 ) UNIQUE NOT NULL , title TEXT NOT NULL , channel_title TEXT , region VARCHAR ( 4 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'GB' , view_count BIGINT DEFAULT 0 , virality_score FLOAT DEFAULT 0 , fetched_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT NOW () ); -- GIN trigram indexes for fast fuzzy matching CREATE INDEX idx_videos_title_trgm ON videos USING GIN ( title gin_trgm_ops ); CREATE INDEX idx_videos_channel_trgm ON videos USING GIN ( channel_title gin_trgm_ops ); Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Region-Weighted Autocomplete The unique challenge for a European video vault: a search should prefer results from…

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