List of items as an input?

[BugzTheBunny]

Hello!

First of all, amazing tool, I’m using it on a few project, thank’s so much for creating such an amazing tool!

I’m asking after I’ve searched the docks and was not able to find, is there a way to create a list of parameters as an input?

I know there’s a multi_select, but that’s not what is needed.
To be more specific, I have a huge database, and the user should input for example a list of ID’s he would like to see data about them.

The only way I currently see for doing it, is creating it as text input, and splitting the text by some character, is there something that is built-in? (Also, the IDs are not constant, so I can’t really create a list, and nor can I make a call to the DB to pull the IDs due the fact that not all of the users see all of the ID’s.

Thanks a lot!

[Marisa_Smith]

Hey @BugzTheBunny,

First, Welcome to the Streamlit community!!!

Second, thanks! We also think streamlit is amazing!

are you looking to create some sort of input form type of thing where all the widgets append their values to a list?

Do you have any screen shots and a code snippet of what your looking for?

Thanks,
Marisa

[BugzTheBunny]

Hey @Marisa_Smith

The goal of this is to make something like a list of str items.
for example the user will be able to input something like tags or something, not specificly a form, just an input field, for text, which will take some words.

to create soemthing like Stackoverflow tags

[GitHunter0]

That’s exactly what I’m looking for.
Any update on that, @Marisa_Smith ?
Thank you

[Marisa_Smith]

Hey @GitHunter0 (and @BugzTheBunny),

Have you seen this component that was made by @gagan3012, one of our community members?

New Component: Streamlit-tags a new way to do add tags and enter keywords

Hello, I have created a custom component for Streamlit which is a custom tag function and keywords functions in Streamlit it returns a list and the list can be used as usual. pip install streamlit-tags import streamlit as st from streamlit_tags import st_tags keywords = st_tags(‘Enter Keyword:’, ‘Press enter to add more’, [‘One’, ‘Two’, ‘Three’]) st.write(keywords) More details can be found here: GitHub - gagan3012/streamlit-tags: streamlit-tags Please star the repo if you liked it and …

[GitHunter0]

No, thank you for pointing that out! @Marisa_Smith

[BugzTheBunny]

Nope, didn’t see it, and it looks awesome, thank you! @Marisa_Smith

[GitHunter0]

@Marisa_Smith , do you plan to incorporate the best external components as native Streamlit?

[Marisa_Smith]

Hey @GitHunter0,

Currently, that isn’t currently in our plans (unless we find a special case). We want people to be able to have control over their components but also (and in my mind mainly) you then get to have bragging rights on your resume that you built this component that X many people use!

Check out this more detailed answer by one of our creators, @andfanilo:

Merge component in to main Streamlit Lib

Hello @gagan3012, For adding features into Streamlit, you’ll have much better chance on the Streamlit Github issues GitHub - streamlit/streamlit: Streamlit — The fastest way to build data apps in Python . Though I see you already wrote an issue for this here which may give you an answer: Streamlit’s vision is to keep the number of new widgets in Core as small and optimized as possible, and provide the Components system for us to add more customized widgets like streamlit-tags, streamlit-…

Happy Streamlit-ing!
Marisa

[GitHunter0]

Hi @Marisa_Smith , thank you for the feedback!

Although I think some incorporations would be nice to reduce dependencies, I can understand your reasoning.

Keep the great work!