jinabox

jinabox.js is a lightweight, customizable omnibox. You can use it for searching text, images, videos, audio or any kind of data with a Jina backend.

• Learn Jina: the fastest way to build cloud-native neural search
• Jinabox in Action
• Jinabox in Your Project
• Features
• Supported MIME types
• Configuration

jinabox.js in Action

Spin up a Jina Docker Image

jinabox.js is a frontend for Jina. You will need to spin up a Jina backend to get search results. Based on what you want to search, run one of our example Jina backends:

• Pokedex (real image data): docker run -p 65481:65481 -e "JINA_PORT=65481" jinaai/hub.app.bitsearch-pokedex search
• Southpark (real text data): docker run -p 45678:45678 jinaai/hub.app.distilbert-southpark
• MP4 mock (placeholder video data): docker run -p 65481:65481 -e "JINA_PORT=65481" jinaai/hub.app.iomock.mp4 search
• Wav mock (placeholder audio data): docker run -p 65481:65481 -e "JINA_PORT=65481" jinaai/hub.app.iomock.sound search

Open jinabox.js in your Browser

Just go to https://jina.ai/jinabox.js/ in your browser to open up the search interface.

Set Server Endpoint

Based on the Docker port you are exposing (i.e. 65481 or 45678 in above Docker images), set jinabox's server endpoint to:

http://localhost:<port_number>/api/search

Start Searching!

Drag and drop images, video, or audio, or type in text to search.

jinabox.js in Your Project

In HTML, include the minified script:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/jinabox"></script>
<script>
    jb = window.JinaBox
    jb.init('http://0.0.0.0:65481/api/search');  // http://0.0.0.0:65481/api/search is the endpoint of the REST gateway of a Jina backend.
</script>

Then create a container where the searchbar/floater is to appear:

<jina-searchbar/>

<!--or-->

<jina-floater/>

Now you can drag anything from anywhere (local/browser/webpage) to it and conduct the search.

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Using with a module bundler

npm install jinabox

or

yarn add jinabox

Features

• Easy-to-use web component for Jina search backend
• Users can drag and drop multi-modal data as search queries
• Webcam and microphone support (in progress, contributions welcome! ❤️)
• Visualize search results in a dropdown list or separate container
• Highly customizable

Supported MIME types

MIME type	Input (Query)	Output (Result)	Description
text	Typing	List only	Text-only data including any human-readable content, source code, or textual data such as comma-separated value (CSV) formatted data. Examples include text/plain, text/csv, and text/html.
image	Drag-and-drop	<img> Containers in list/grid view	Image or graphical data including both bitmap and vector still images as well as animated versions of still image formats like animated GIF or APNG. Common examples are image/jpeg, image/png, and image/svg+xml.
video	Drag-and-drop, webcam	<video> containers in list/grid view	Video data or files, such as MP4 movies (video/mp4).
audio	Drag-and-drop, webcam, mic	<audio> containers in list view	Audio or music data. Examples include audio/mpeg, audio/vorbis.

Configuration

Settings	Description
theme	Color theme: persian, pompelmo, honeybee, none
typewriterEffect	Enable typewriter effect on the placeholder
typewriterDelayItem	Time (ms) delay between every placeholder
typewriterDelayCharacter	Time (ms) delay between each character

Browser Support

jinabox.js runs on modern browsers supporting Web Audio, including Firefox, Chrome, Safari (desktop and mobile) and Opera.

Troubleshooting

SSL Error on Localhost

Try http://localhost:65481/api/search, make sure to use http and localhost, instead of 0.0.0.0.

License

Copyright (c) 2020 Jina AI Limited. All rights reserved.

Jina is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text.