Analyzing Sentiment

Sentiment Analysis inspects the given text and identifies the prevailing emotional opinion within the text, especially to determine a writer's attitude as positive, negative, or neutral. Sentiment analysis is performed through the analyzeSentiment method. For information on which languages are supported by the Natural Language API, see Language Support. For information on how to interpret the score and magnitude sentiment values included in the analysis, see Interpreting sentiment analysis values.

This section demonstrates a few ways to detect sentiment in a document. For each document, you must submit a separate request.

Analyzing Sentiment in a String

Here is an example of performing sentiment analysis on a text string sent directly to the Natural Language API:

Protocol

To analyze sentiment in a document, make a POST request to the documents:analyzeSentiment REST method and provide the appropriate request body as shown in the following example.

The example uses the gcloud auth application-default print-access-token command to obtain an access token for a service account set up for the project using the Google Cloud Platform gcloud CLI. For instructions on installing the gcloud CLI, setting up a project with a service account see the Quickstart.

curl -X POST \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer "$(gcloud auth application-default print-access-token) \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
     --data "{
  'encodingType': 'UTF8',
  'document': {
    'type': 'PLAIN_TEXT',
    'content': 'Enjoy your vacation!'
  }
}" "https://language.googleapis.com/v2/documents:analyzeSentiment"

If you don't specify document.language_code, then the language will be automatically detected. For information on which languages are supported by the Natural Language API, see Language Support. See the Document reference documentation for more information on configuring the request body.

If the request is successful, the server returns a 200 OK HTTP status code and the response in JSON format:

{
  "documentSentiment": {
    "magnitude": 0.8,
    "score": 0.8
  },
  "language": "en",
  "sentences": [
    {
      "text": {
        "content": "Enjoy your vacation!",
        "beginOffset": 0
      },
      "sentiment": {
        "magnitude": 0.8,
        "score": 0.8
      }
    }
  ]
}

documentSentiment.score indicates positive sentiment with a value greater than zero, and negative sentiment with a value less than zero.

gcloud

Refer to the analyze-sentiment command for complete details.

To perform sentiment analysis, use the gcloud CLI and use the --content flag to identify the content to analyze:

gcloud ml language analyze-sentiment --content="Enjoy your vacation!"

If the request is successful, the server returns a response in JSON format:

{
  "documentSentiment": {
    "magnitude": 0.8,
    "score": 0.8
  },
  "language": "en",
  "sentences": [
    {
      "text": {
        "content": "Enjoy your vacation!",
        "beginOffset": 0
      },
      "sentiment": {
        "magnitude": 0.8,
        "score": 0.8
      }
    }
  ]
}

documentSentiment.score indicates positive sentiment with a value greater than zero, and negative sentiment with a value less than zero.

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for Natural Language, see Natural Language client libraries. For more information, see the Natural Language Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Natural Language, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	language "cloud.google.com/go/language/apiv2"
	"cloud.google.com/go/language/apiv2/languagepb"
)

// analyzeSentiment sends a string of text to the Cloud Natural Language API to
// assess the sentiment of the text.
func analyzeSentiment(w io.Writer, text string) error {
	ctx := context.Background()

	// Initialize client.
	client, err := language.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer client.Close()

	resp, err := client.AnalyzeSentiment(ctx, &languagepb.AnalyzeSentimentRequest{
		Document: &languagepb.Document{
			Source: &languagepb.Document_Content{
				Content: text,
			},
			Type: languagepb.Document_PLAIN_TEXT,
		},
		EncodingType: languagepb.EncodingType_UTF8,
	})

	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("AnalyzeSentiment: %w", err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Response: %q\n", resp)

	return nil
}

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for Natural Language, see Natural Language client libraries. For more information, see the Natural Language Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Natural Language, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

// Instantiate the Language client com.google.cloud.language.v2.LanguageServiceClient
try (LanguageServiceClient language = LanguageServiceClient.create()) {
  Document doc = Document.newBuilder().setContent(text).setType(Type.PLAIN_TEXT).build();
  AnalyzeSentimentResponse response = language.analyzeSentiment(doc);
  Sentiment sentiment = response.getDocumentSentiment();
  if (sentiment == null) {
    System.out.println("No sentiment found");
  } else {
    System.out.printf("Sentiment magnitude: %.3f\n", sentiment.getMagnitude());
    System.out.printf("Sentiment score: %.3f\n", sentiment.getScore());
  }
  return sentiment;
}

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for Natural Language, see Natural Language client libraries. For more information, see the Natural Language Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Natural Language, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

from google.cloud import language_v2


def sample_analyze_sentiment(text_content: str = "I am so happy and joyful.") -> None:
    """
    Analyzes Sentiment in a string.

    Args:
      text_content: The text content to analyze.
    """

    client = language_v2.LanguageServiceClient()

    # text_content = 'I am so happy and joyful.'

    # Available types: PLAIN_TEXT, HTML
    document_type_in_plain_text = language_v2.Document.Type.PLAIN_TEXT

    # Optional. If not specified, the language is automatically detected.
    # For list of supported languages:
    # https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/docs/languages
    language_code = "en"
    document = {
        "content": text_content,
        "type_": document_type_in_plain_text,
        "language_code": language_code,
    }

    # Available values: NONE, UTF8, UTF16, UTF32
    # See https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/docs/reference/rest/v2/EncodingType.
    encoding_type = language_v2.EncodingType.UTF8

    response = client.analyze_sentiment(
        request={"document": document, "encoding_type": encoding_type}
    )
    # Get overall sentiment of the input document
    print(f"Document sentiment score: {response.document_sentiment.score}")
    print(f"Document sentiment magnitude: {response.document_sentiment.magnitude}")
    # Get sentiment for all sentences in the document
    for sentence in response.sentences:
        print(f"Sentence text: {sentence.text.content}")
        print(f"Sentence sentiment score: {sentence.sentiment.score}")
        print(f"Sentence sentiment magnitude: {sentence.sentiment.magnitude}")

    # Get the language of the text, which will be the same as
    # the language specified in the request or, if not specified,
    # the automatically-detected language.
    print(f"Language of the text: {response.language_code}")

Additional languages

C#: Please follow the C# setup instructions on the client libraries page and then visit the Natural Language reference documentation for .NET.

PHP: Please follow the PHP setup instructions on the client libraries page and then visit the Natural Language reference documentation for PHP.

Ruby: Please follow the Ruby setup instructions on the client libraries page and then visit the Natural Language reference documentation for Ruby.

Analyzing Sentiment from Cloud Storage

For your convenience, the Natural Language API can perform sentiment analysis directly on a file located in Cloud Storage, without the need to send the contents of the file in the body of your request.

Here is an example of performing sentiment analysis on a file located in Cloud Storage.

Protocol

To analyze sentiment from a document stored in Cloud Storage, make a POST request to the documents:analyzeSentiment REST method and provide the appropriate request body with the path to the document as shown in the following example.

curl -X POST \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer "$(gcloud auth application-default print-access-token) \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
     --data "{
  'document':{
    'type':'PLAIN_TEXT',
    'gcsContentUri':'gs://<bucket-name>/<object-name>'
  }
}" "https://language.googleapis.com/v2/documents:analyzeSentiment"

If the request is successful, the server returns a 200 OK HTTP status code and the response in JSON format:

{
  "documentSentiment": {
    "magnitude": 0.8,
    "score": 0.8
  },
  "language_code": "en",
  "sentences": [
    {
      "text": {
        "content": "Enjoy your vacation!",
        "beginOffset": 0
      },
      "sentiment": {
        "magnitude": 0.8,
        "score": 0.8
      }
    }
  ]
}

documentSentiment.score indicates positive sentiment with a value greater than zero, and negative sentiment with a value less than zero.

gcloud

Refer to the analyze-sentiment command for complete details.

To perform sentiment analysis on a file in Cloud Storage, use the gcloud command line tool and use the --content-file flag to identify the file path that contains the content to analyze:

gcloud ml language analyze-sentiment --content-file=gs://YOUR_BUCKET_NAME/YOUR_FILE_NAME

If the request is successful, the server returns a response in JSON format:

{
  "documentSentiment": {
    "magnitude": 0.8,
    "score": 0.8
  },
  "language": "en",
  "sentences": [
    {
      "text": {
        "content": "Enjoy your vacation!",
        "beginOffset": 0
      },
      "sentiment": {
        "magnitude": 0.8,
        "score": 0.8
      }
    }
  ]
}

documentSentiment.score indicates positive sentiment with a value greater than zero, and negative sentiment with a value less than zero.

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for Natural Language, see Natural Language client libraries. For more information, see the Natural Language Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Natural Language, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.


func analyzeSentimentFromGCS(ctx context.Context, gcsURI string) (*languagepb.AnalyzeSentimentResponse, error) {
	return client.AnalyzeSentiment(ctx, &languagepb.AnalyzeSentimentRequest{
		Document: &languagepb.Document{
			Source: &languagepb.Document_GcsContentUri{
				GcsContentUri: gcsURI,
			},
			Type: languagepb.Document_PLAIN_TEXT,
		},
	})
}

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for Natural Language, see Natural Language client libraries. For more information, see the Natural Language Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Natural Language, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

// Instantiate the Language client com.google.cloud.language.v2.LanguageServiceClient
try (LanguageServiceClient language = LanguageServiceClient.create()) {
  Document doc =
      Document.newBuilder().setGcsContentUri(gcsUri).setType(Type.PLAIN_TEXT).build();
  AnalyzeSentimentResponse response = language.analyzeSentiment(doc);
  Sentiment sentiment = response.getDocumentSentiment();
  if (sentiment == null) {
    System.out.println("No sentiment found");
  } else {
    System.out.printf("Sentiment magnitude : %.3f\n", sentiment.getMagnitude());
    System.out.printf("Sentiment score : %.3f\n", sentiment.getScore());
  }
  return sentiment;
}

Node.js

To learn how to install and use the client library for Natural Language, see Natural Language client libraries. For more information, see the Natural Language Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Natural Language, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const language = require('@google-cloud/language').v2;

// Creates a client
const client = new language.LanguageServiceClient();

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines to run this code
 */
// const bucketName = 'Your bucket name, e.g. my-bucket';
// const fileName = 'Your file name, e.g. my-file.txt';

// Prepares a document, representing a text file in Cloud Storage
const document = {
  gcsContentUri: `gs://${bucketName}/${fileName}`,
  type: 'PLAIN_TEXT',
};

// Detects the sentiment of the document
const [result] = await client.analyzeSentiment({document});

const sentiment = result.documentSentiment;
console.log('Document sentiment:');
console.log(`  Score: ${sentiment.score}`);
console.log(`  Magnitude: ${sentiment.magnitude}`);

const sentences = result.sentences;
sentences.forEach(sentence => {
  console.log(`Sentence: ${sentence.text.content}`);
  console.log(`  Score: ${sentence.sentiment.score}`);
  console.log(`  Magnitude: ${sentence.sentiment.magnitude}`);
});

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for Natural Language, see Natural Language client libraries. For more information, see the Natural Language Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Natural Language, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

from google.cloud import language_v2


def sample_analyze_sentiment(
    gcs_content_uri: str = "gs://cloud-samples-data/language/sentiment-positive.txt",
) -> None:
    """
    Analyzes Sentiment in text file stored in Cloud Storage.

    Args:
      gcs_content_uri: Google Cloud Storage URI where the file content is located.
        e.g. gs://[Your Bucket]/[Path to File]
    """

    client = language_v2.LanguageServiceClient()

    # Available types: PLAIN_TEXT, HTML
    document_type_in_plain_text = language_v2.Document.Type.PLAIN_TEXT

    # Optional. If not specified, the language is automatically detected.
    # For list of supported languages:
    # https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/docs/languages
    language_code = "en"
    document = {
        "gcs_content_uri": gcs_content_uri,
        "type_": document_type_in_plain_text,
        "language_code": language_code,
    }

    # Available values: NONE, UTF8, UTF16, UTF32
    # See https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/docs/reference/rest/v2/EncodingType.
    encoding_type = language_v2.EncodingType.UTF8

    response = client.analyze_sentiment(
        request={"document": document, "encoding_type": encoding_type}
    )
    # Get overall sentiment of the input document
    print(f"Document sentiment score: {response.document_sentiment.score}")
    print(f"Document sentiment magnitude: {response.document_sentiment.magnitude}")
    # Get sentiment for all sentences in the document
    for sentence in response.sentences:
        print(f"Sentence text: {sentence.text.content}")
        print(f"Sentence sentiment score: {sentence.sentiment.score}")
        print(f"Sentence sentiment magnitude: {sentence.sentiment.magnitude}")

    # Get the language of the text, which will be the same as
    # the language specified in the request or, if not specified,
    # the automatically-detected language.
    print(f"Language of the text: {response.language_code}")

Additional languages

C#: Please follow the C# setup instructions on the client libraries page and then visit the Natural Language reference documentation for .NET.

PHP: Please follow the PHP setup instructions on the client libraries page and then visit the Natural Language reference documentation for PHP.

Ruby: Please follow the Ruby setup instructions on the client libraries page and then visit the Natural Language reference documentation for Ruby.