cloudsight
Unofficial Node.js module for the CloudSight image recognition API.
Usage
var cloudsight = require ('cloudsight') ({
apikey: 'abc123'
});
var image = {
image: '/path/to/image.jpg',
locale: 'en-US'
};
// Upload image to analyze, report results
cloudsight.request (image, true, console.log);
Installation
You need a CloudSight account API key with enough credits.
npm install cloudsight
Methods
The callback function receives result data and errors.
function myCallback (err, data) {
if (err) {
console.log (err);
return;
}
console.log (data);
}
Errors
error message | description | additional |
---|---|---|
request failed | A request error occured | err.error |
API error | API error occured |
err.statusCode and err.error
|
.request
( params, [polling], callback )
Send an image to the API for analysis.
argument | type | required | default | description |
---|---|---|---|---|
params | object | yes | Image object, see below | |
polling | boolean | no | false | Only callback when analysis is complete |
callback | function | yes | Callback function |
Image object
param | required | default | description |
---|---|---|---|
image | yes | Local path to image, either this or remote_image_url
|
|
remote_image_url | yes | URL to image, either this or image
|
|
locale | no | en-US | OCR locale for text recognition |
language | no | en | Response data language |
device_id | no | UUID | Unique identifier for request, auto generated |
latitude | no | Image context geo position | |
longitude | no | Image context geo position | |
altitude | no | Image context geo position | |
ttl | no | Analysis deadline in seconds or max
|
|
focus_x | no | Focal point in px | |
focus_y | no | Focal point in px |
Example
// Describe image
var image = {
image: '/path/to/image.jpg',
locale: 'en-US'
};
// Upload image
cloudsight.request (image, console.log);
// Upload image and wait for completion
cloudsight.request (image, true, console.log);
.response
( token, callback )
Get analysis state or data for an image.
argument | type | required | description |
---|---|---|---|
token | string | yes | Image token from .request
|
callback | function | yes | Callback function |
cloudsight.response ('xyz789', console.log);
Unlicense
This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
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