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timmaffett / material_symbols_icons

Complete Flutter support for google's Material DesignMaterial Symbols Icons
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Feature request - Search icons by tags or related words #22

Open anthonymoretti opened 1 month ago

anthonymoretti commented 1 month ago

Hi. Is it possible to search icons by something like tags, or however it works, like can be done at https://fonts.google.com/icons? If I want the user to be able to search icons they currently need to string match on the icon name, but if I search on the above website for something like "home" the results include icons like "kitchen", "bathroom", and many others.

timmaffett commented 1 month ago

Unfortunately the last time I checked the tags that they use for each icon are not available. If you can find these in a repo somewhere then it would be easy to add this functionality. Google has a query interface for the googlefonts but that requires an API key and is a billed item, but it may be possible to collect all of the tag info for each icon using the google fonts api. I have not investigated this.
Like I said if you find source somewhere for the tags they use for each icon let me know. This may be present somewhere in the official material symbols repo.

anthonymoretti commented 1 month ago

I did already take a quick look, but same as you I didn't find anything. The API route sounds interesting, maybe I'll look into it if I get desperate. No worries, thanks anyway!