jinabox.js is a lightweight, customizable set of components for querying and displaying results from Jina flows. You can use it for searching text, images, videos, audio or any kind of data with a Jina backend.

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• Features
• Jinabox in Action
• Adding Jinabox to Your Project
• Supported MIME types
• Configuration

Features

• <jina-searchbar></jina-searchbar>

  • perform queries and view results in a single component

• <jina-results></jina-results>

  • place results from searchbar in a separate area

• <jina-floater></jina-floater>

  • standalone floating icon to enable searches from anywhere in the application

• <jina-floater-chat></jina-floater-chat>

  • jina floater in the style of a chat application

• Easy-to-use web components 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

jinabox.js in Action

Spin up a Jina Docker Image

jinabox.js is a frontend for querying Jina flows. 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

Important: If you are using a remote endpoint (non-localhost), make sure it is using HTTPS, not HTTP. Otherwise, JinaBox will not be able to make requests to your flow.

Start Searching!

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

Adding jinabox.js to Your Project

In your HTML source, include the minified script and initialize it with your endpoint:

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

Then add the jinabox web components into your application:

<jina-searchbar></jina-searchbar>

<!--or-->

<jina-floater></jina-floater>

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

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Installation via package manager

npm install jinabox

or

yarn add jinabox

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

Play with and preview jinabox configurations here: https://jina.ai/jinabox.js/

Setting	Default	Type	Description
theme	default	string	Color theme: default, persian, pompelmo, honeybee
searchIcon	color	string	Searchbar icon: color, mono, inverse, or a URL
showDropzone	true	boolean	Show expanding drop zone when dragging files
resultsLocation	dropdown	string	Where to display results: dropdown or external. When selecting external, results will be rendered in the element corresponding to the results-area-id
resultsAreaId	jina-results-area	string	ID of where results will be rendered if resultsLocation is set to external
typewriterEffect	false	boolean	Enable typewriter effect on the placeholder
typewriterDelayItem	1000	number	Time (ms) delay between every placeholder switch when typewriterEffect is enabled
typewriterDelayCharacter	50	number	Time (ms) delay between each character when typwriterEffect is enabled
userMediaHeight	500	number	Webcam feed and capture height
userMediaWidth	300	number	Webcam feed and capture width
acceptAudio	true	boolean	Allow search with audio queries
acceptVideo	true	boolean	Allow search with video queries
acceptText	true	boolean	Allow search with text queries
acceptImage	true	boolean	Allow search with image queries

Expected Response Structure

jinabox.js expects query responses to contain either of the following structures

{
  "search": {
    "docs": [
      {
        "topkResults": [
          {
            "matchDoc": {
              "docId": 14704,
              "weight": 1,
              "uri": "data:image/png;charset=utf,...",
              "mimeType":"image/png"
            }
          }
        ],
        "uri":"data:image/jpeg;...",
        "mimeType":"image/jpeg"
      }
    ]
  }
}

or

{
  "search": {
    "docs": [
      {
        "matches": [
          {
            "docId": 14704,
            "weight": 1,
            "uri": "data:image/png;charset=utf,...",
            "mimeType":"image/png"
          }
        ],
        "uri":"data:image/jpeg;...",
        "mimeType":"image/jpeg"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Browser Support

jinabox.js runs on modern browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari (desktop and mobile) and Opera. Certain features (like recording audio/video) are not available on all browsers and jinabox will make these features available accordingly.

Troubleshooting

SSL Error on Localhost

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

Requests hanging or failing

Query your api with curl to ensure it is properly receiving, processing, and responding to requests. Ensure responses meet jinabox expected response structure.

Contributing

We welcome all kinds of contributions from the open-source community, individuals and partners. We owe our success to your active involvement.

• Contributing guidelines
• Release cycles and development stages

Community

• Code of conduct - play nicely with the Jina community
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• Company - know more about our company and how we are fully committed to open-source.

Open Governance

As part of our open governance model, we host Jina's Engineering All Hands in public. This Zoom meeting recurs monthly on the second Tuesday of each month, at 14:00-15:30 (CET). Everyone can join in via the following calendar invite.

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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.