st-multimodal-chatinput 0.2.1

Streamlit component that allows you to accept multi-modal inputs through a chat interface.

Streamlit Multimodal Chat Input

A Streamlit component that enables a rich multimodal chat interface, allowing users to input text and upload images within Streamlit applications. Demo video at Streamlit Community Forum.

Features

• Text Input: Users can type in their messages.
• Image Upload: Supports uploading images, enhancing the chat with a visual element.
• Clipboard Paste: Enables pasting images directly from the clipboard.
• Responsive Design: Adjusts to the width of the Streamlit container.
• Disabled State: Can be set to a disabled state, making the input and button non-interactive and visually distinct.

Installation Instructions

To install the component, run the following command:

pip install st-multimodal-chatinput

Usage instructions

import streamlit as st

from st_multimodal_chatinput import multimodal_chatinput

chatinput = multimodal_chatinput()

uploaded_files = chatinput["uploadedFiles"] ##list of ALL uploaded files (including images) along with type, name, and content.
uploaded_images = chatinput["uploadedImages"] ## list of base 64 encoding of uploaded images
text = chatinput["textInput"] ##submitted text
for file in uploaded_files:
    filename = file["name"]
    filetype = file["type"] ## MIME type of the uploaded file
    filecontent = file["content"] ## base 64 encoding of the uploaded file

Common MIME types

File Extension	MIME Type
.pdf	application/pdf
.doc	application/msword
.csv	text/csv

You can find other common types here.

Contributing

Pull requests for some of the to-dos are more than welcome.