cloudsight

Unofficial Node.js module for the CloudSight image recognition API.

• Node.js
• CloudSight
• API documentation
• Development

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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Author

Franklin van de Meent