esafwan
3/10/2016 - 5:11 PM

Command for converting image to base64 and to access the Google Cloud Vision API from terminal to detect emotion in a given photo. A sample

Command for converting image to base64 and to access the Google Cloud Vision API from terminal to detect emotion in a given photo. A sample request fils is also given below.

google_vision_api.sh
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#command to convert jpeg to base64 encoding and copy to clipboard
base64 safwan.jpg | pbcopy

#command to access the google api from terminal. 
#Replace the [API-Key] with your key & request.json with your request file. 
curl -v -k -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://vision.googleapis.com/v1/images:annotate?key=[API-Key]  --data-binary @request.json
request.json
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{
  "requests":[
    {
      "image":{
        "content": "[ BASE 64 IMAGE ]"
      },
      "features": [
        {
          "type":"FACE_DETECTION",
          "maxResults":1
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}