Method: videos.annotate

Performs asynchronous video annotation. Progress and results can be retrieved through the google.longrunning.Operations interface. Operation.metadata contains AnnotateVideoProgress (progress). Operation.response contains AnnotateVideoResponse (results).

HTTP request

POST https://videointelligence.googleapis.com/v1beta1/videos:annotate

The URL uses Google API HTTP annotation syntax.

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "inputUri": string,
  "inputContent": string,
  "features": [
    enum(Feature)
  ],
  "videoContext": {
    object(VideoContext)
  },
  "outputUri": string,
  "locationId": string
}
Fields
inputUri

string

Input video location. Currently, only Google Cloud Storage URIs are supported, which must be specified in the following format: gs://bucket-id/object-id (other URI formats return google.rpc.Code.INVALID_ARGUMENT). For more information, see Request URIs. A video URI may include wildcards in object-id, and thus identify multiple videos. Supported wildcards: '*' to match 0 or more characters; '?' to match 1 character. If unset, the input video should be embedded in the request as inputContent. If set, inputContent should be unset.

inputContent

string

The video data bytes. Encoding: base64. If unset, the input video(s) should be specified via inputUri. If set, inputUri should be unset.

features[]

enum(Feature)

Requested video annotation features.

videoContext

object(VideoContext)

Additional video context and/or feature-specific parameters.

outputUri

string

Optional location where the output (in JSON format) should be stored. Currently, only Google Cloud Storage URIs are supported, which must be specified in the following format: gs://bucket-id/object-id (other URI formats return google.rpc.Code.INVALID_ARGUMENT). For more information, see Request URIs.

locationId

string

Optional cloud region where annotation should take place. Supported cloud regions: us-east1, us-west1, europe-west1, asia-east1. If no region is specified, a region will be determined based on video file location.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an instance of Operation.

Authorization Scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Auth Guide.