Add lowercase option

[lorensr]

Problem

I use Algolia for search, and it normalizes URLs by lowercasing (and it's not configurable). So an Algolia search result URL is lowercase, but Vercel is case-sensitive, so Vercel doesn't match the lowercase URL with the typedoc-generated SentenceCase file, and returns a 404.

Suggested Solution

Add a lowercase output option that:

• generates lowercase files
• changes links to lowercase

[Gerrit0]

This feels like an Algolia defect or configuration issue to me... Normalizing non-search fields isn't okay.

[lorensr]

Thanks for pointing that out! Looks like I was mistaken—Algolia's normalization applies to search fields put in the index and query strings, not URLs. I'm not sure why there were lowercase URLs in my index, but after updating to a newer version of Crawler code and reindexing, I have SentenceCase types in my search result URLs.

Feel free to close, unless the lowercase option would be helpful for other use cases.

[Gerrit0]

👍 I do eventually want to make routing much more configurable, but that's effectively tracked under #1919, so will go ahead and close this.