Autocomplete for chat_input

[liunux4odoo]

Problem

The new chat_input element is great for chatbot apps. It would be very useful if it can give user suggestions when inputting.

Some feature requests (#6604, #5602) were submitted for the text_input element. And then they were suggested to use streamlit-searchbox as alternative.

Since official chat_input has been shinny released, I think it's good timing to bring the autocomplete feature to it.

Thanks.

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[jrieke]

Yup, we are thinking about this! Do you have a concrete use case in mind / which suggestions you'd like to show? The more detail the better!

[imClumsyPanda]

@jrieke Hope streamlit can support some use case like discord or telegram bot, for example when I input “/”, there will show a list of command starts with “/” like “/clear”, “/upload”and shown with caption of the command.

The command list and caption can be a dict defined with st.chat_input.

[liunux4odoo]

@jrieke Thanks for quick concerning.

Making chat_input behave like streamlit-searchbox would be sufficient.

For example:

st.chat_input('please input your question', autocomplete: List[str]=[])

When user is inputing, the input widget dropdown a list of strings which filtered dynamically by the current input, then user can make a quick selection from the list.

[tejeshbhalla]

any update on this ?

[austinmw]

@jrieke Hi, any updates?

[LinXueyuanStdio]

maybe https://github.com/sobkevich/streamlit-copilot is all you need

[wparker1339]

It would be nice to have this capability. It's a lot of hacking to get anything similar to work, and it comes with lots of baggage.