diff --git a/netlify.toml b/netlify.toml
index 4b9bb164..5b17e189 100644
--- a/netlify.toml
+++ b/netlify.toml
@@ -15,8 +15,16 @@
   HUGO_VERSION = "0.79.0"
   LOOP = "false"
   HOST = "/"
-
+[context.branch-deploy]
+  command = "./scripts/branchdeploy.sh $DEPLOY_PRIME_URL"
 [context.branch-deploy.environment]
   HUGO_VERSION = "0.79.0"
   LOOP = "false"
-  HOST = "/"
\ No newline at end of file
+  HOST = "/"
+[[plugins]]
+  package = "@algolia/netlify-plugin-crawler"
+    [plugins.inputs]
+    branches = ['main','release/*']
+    disabled = false
+    renderJavaScript = false
+    template = "hierarchical"
diff --git a/scripts/branchdeploy.sh b/scripts/branchdeploy.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..62bc3b6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/branchdeploy.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+# Important for clean builds on Netlify
+if ! git remote | grep -q origin ; then
+    git remote add origin https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph-docs.git
+    git fetch --all
+fi
+
+GREEN='\033[32;1m'
+RESET='\033[0m'
+
+# script used to build a release branch
+# expect the branch to be named release/<version>
+# argument is the netlify base url
+
+releaseVersion=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD | sed 's/release\///')
+
+
+run() {
+  export DGRAPH_ENDPOINT=${DGRAPH_ENDPOINT:-"https://play.dgraph.io/query?latency=true"}
+  export HUGO_TITLE="Dgraph Doc - Preview" \
+
+  pushd "$(dirname "$0")/.." > /dev/null
+  pushd themes > /dev/null
+
+  if [ ! -d "hugo-docs" ]; then
+    echo -e "$(date) $GREEN  Hugo-docs repository not found. Cloning the repo. $RESET"
+    git clone https://github.com/dgraph-io/hugo-docs.git
+  else
+    echo -e "$(date) $GREEN  Hugo-docs repository found. Pulling the latest version from master. $RESET"
+    pushd hugo-docs > /dev/null
+    git checkout master
+    git pull
+    popd > /dev/null
+  fi
+  popd > /dev/null
+
+    echo -e "$(date) $GREEN  Generating documentation static pages in the public folder. $RESET"
+      hugo --destination="public/docs/$releaseVersion" --baseURL="$1/docs/$releaseVersion" 1> /dev/null
+    cp "public/docs/$releaseVersion/sitemap.xml" public > /dev/null
+    echo -e "$(date) $GREEN  Done building. $RESET"
+
+  popd > /dev/null
+}
+
+run "$1"