Web detection

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Perform web detection on a file, URL, or Cloud Storage URI.

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Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the Vision quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Vision Python API reference documentation. 

import argparse
import io

from google.cloud import vision


def annotate(path):
    """Returns web annotations given the path to an image."""
    client = vision.ImageAnnotatorClient()

    if path.startswith('http') or path.startswith('gs:'):
        image = vision.Image()
        image.source.image_uri = path

    else:
        with io.open(path, 'rb') as image_file:
            content = image_file.read()

        image = vision.Image(content=content)

    web_detection = client.web_detection(image=image).web_detection

    return web_detection


def report(annotations):
    """Prints detected features in the provided web annotations."""
    if annotations.pages_with_matching_images:
        print('\n{} Pages with matching images retrieved'.format(
            len(annotations.pages_with_matching_images)))

        for page in annotations.pages_with_matching_images:
            print('Url   : {}'.format(page.url))

    if annotations.full_matching_images:
        print('\n{} Full Matches found: '.format(
              len(annotations.full_matching_images)))

        for image in annotations.full_matching_images:
            print('Url  : {}'.format(image.url))

    if annotations.partial_matching_images:
        print('\n{} Partial Matches found: '.format(
              len(annotations.partial_matching_images)))

        for image in annotations.partial_matching_images:
            print('Url  : {}'.format(image.url))

    if annotations.web_entities:
        print('\n{} Web entities found: '.format(
              len(annotations.web_entities)))

        for entity in annotations.web_entities:
            print('Score      : {}'.format(entity.score))
            print('Description: {}'.format(entity.description))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description=__doc__,
        formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
    path_help = str('The image to detect, can be web URI, '
                    'Google Cloud Storage, or path to local file.')
    parser.add_argument('image_url', help=path_help)
    args = parser.parse_args()

    report(annotate(args.image_url))

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