Improve presentation of inputs in demo

demo.py

@@ -2,18 +2,6 @@ import httpx
 import gradio as gr
 
 
-client = httpx.Client()
-# TODO: update the tags somehow; re-fetching inside of check_status doesn't work
-try:
-    tag_counts = {
-        key.strip("#"): val
-        for key, val in client.get("http://localhost:8080/tag_counts/").json().items()
-        if key.strip("#")
-    }
-except httpx.ConnectError:
-    tag_counts = {}
-
-
 def submit(inputs):
     if not inputs:
         return
@@ -30,11 +18,26 @@ def check_status():
     return result
 
 
+def check_tags():
+    try:
+        tag_counts = {
+            key.strip("#"): val
+            for key, val in httpx.get("http://localhost:8080/tag_counts/").json().items()
+            if key.strip("#")
+        }
+        sorted_tags = sorted(list(tag_counts.items()), key=lambda tup: -tup[1])
+        result = "Most common tags: " + ", ".join(f"{t} ({c})" for t, c in sorted_tags[:5])
+    except httpx.ConnectError:
+        result = ""
+    return result
+
+
 def get_results(inputs: list[str]):
     if not inputs:
         response = httpx.get("http://localhost:8080/recent/")
     else:
-        tags = [tag.split(" ", 1)[0] for tag in inputs]
+        tags = inputs.replace(",", " ").split()
+        tags = [tag.lstrip("#") for tag in tags]
         response = httpx.get("http://localhost:8080/recent/" + ",".join(tags))
     entries = response.json()
     texts: list[str] = []
@@ -48,11 +51,22 @@ def get_results(inputs: list[str]):
     return "\n\n---\n\n".join(texts)
 
 
-INPUT_DESCRIPTION = """Input currently supports:
+INPUT_DESCRIPTION = """# Gistillery
+
+The no-fuss knowledge dump.
+
+Paste information into the field below and submit, _Gistillery_ will create a
+short summary and hashtags for it. Then show results for most recent entries,
+optionally filtered by hashtag.
+
+Input currently supports:
 - plain text
 - a URL to a webpage
 - a URL to a youtube video (the video will be transcribed)
 - a URL to an image (the image description will be used)
+
+Processing can take a couple of minutes, the info box below gives an update on
+how many jobs are in the queue.
 """
 
 
@@ -65,12 +79,11 @@ def get_demo():
 
         # check job status
         gr.HTML(value=check_status, label="Status", every=3)
+        gr.HTML(value=check_tags, label="Status", every=10)
 
         # check box of tags to filter on
-        tag_choices = sorted(f"{key} ({val})" for key, val in tag_counts.items())
-        tags = gr.CheckboxGroup(
-            tag_choices, label="Filter on tags (no selection = all)"
-        )
+        msg = "Enter hashtags to filter on (comma separated if multiple)"
+        tags = gr.Textbox(label=msg)
 
         # display output
         btn_output = gr.Button("Show results")