How do I use this plugin for a site that cannot be built on netlify?

[cpcloud]

Hi!

We're using netlify to host https://ibis-project.org. The site is built using Quarto which supports Algolia for search.

I would really like to use this plugin, but I cannot figure out how to use for our use case which is calling netlify deploy using netlify-cli.

Using netlify auto deploys is untenable for us, because we have oodles of system and Python dependencies needed to build the docs.

I've tried using netlify build, but it requires me to hack in envars into node_modules/@algolia/.env and set ALGOLIA_DEV_ENV=true to trigger a crawl.