Spicing Up Your Snowflake Data Apps with Custom Images

Streamlit in Snowflake is an awesome tool for rapidly creating and deploying data applications to the data cloud. What if you wanted to give your app a little character, or branding with an image? Streamlit has you covered! In this article, I’ll cover a couple of ways to add images to your Streamlit in Snowflake app.

External URL

In a previous article, I created a demo app showcasing the new Cortex AI features of Snowflake. The app itself was relatively plain – just a header, some tabs, and the input boxes. I want to spice it up a bit and add the Snowflake logo to the app. Using the link to a sample logo from the Snowflake branding guidelines, I can add the Snowflake logo to the header with one line of code.

st.image(image="https://www.snowflake.com/wp-content/themes/snowflake/assets/img/brand-guidelines/logo-sno-blue-example.svg")
st.header("Snowflake Cortex Demo")

Internal Stage

My app resides on an internal stage in Snowflake and perhaps the image I want to add to my app isn’t in the public domain. I can easily upload it to the stage and still add it to my app in one line of code. For this example, I’ll upload an image to a new folder on my STG_CORTEX stage called “images”. Once the image is uploaded, I can reference its path in my app.

st.image(image="images//SnowflakeCortexHeader.jpg",width=250)
st.header("Snowflake Cortex Demo")

Conclusion

Using Steamlit in Snowflake to quickly build and prototype apps is one of the many benefits of the Snowflake Data Cloud ecosystem. In this demo, I showed how easy it is to add some pizazz to your app by including images from a link or from the internal stage where the app is stored.