The code for Freebase-Suggest was recently released as an open-source jQuery plugin on Google Code.
Freebase Suggest demo
So as a website developer, you can now add auto-complete with preview to any text input box on your own web page. This gets really exciting when you consider that:
- You can now do text auto-complete based on the millions of topics already in Freebase. Your users will no longer misspell names like “Knattspyrnufélag Akureyrar” when asked to enter their favorite Icelandic sports club.
- You can narrow searches by type. For example showing only the UK Politicians or music artists on Freebase
- The topic summaries show a preview of each item in the menu to help the user decide which item to choose.
- The jQuery plugin can return Freebase Topic IDs, so you can distinguish between the text strings “Kennedy High School” and “Kennedy High School“.
If you’re a website developer, then check out the Live Demos and let us know what you think.
December 5th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Kudos for the Iceland joke :)
April 27th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Question: Which event do I need to create when I loaded a string into the input via javascript and want the list to pop up without user interference?
May 4th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Try this:
var input = $(”input:first”).val(”Bob Dylan”).focus();
function timeout() {
input.trigger(”keyup”);
};
window.setTimeout(timeout, 200);