Visual Recognition Nodejs Starter Application

The IBM Watson Visual Recognition service analyzes the visual content of images to understand the scene without any input text describing

Give it a try! Click the button below to fork into IBM DevOps Services and deploy your own copy of this application on Bluemix.

Getting Started

1. Create a Bluemix Account

[Sign up][sign_up] in Bluemix, or use an existing account. Watson Services in Beta are free to use.

2. Download and install the Cloud-foundry CLI tool

3. Edit the manifest.yml file and change the <application-name> to something unique.

applications:
- services:
- visual-recognition-service
name: <application-name>
command: node app.js
path: .
memory: 512M

The name you use will determinate your application url initially, e.g. <application-name>.mybluemix.net.

4. Connect to Bluemix in the command line tool

$ cf api https://api.ng.bluemix.net
$ cf login -u <your user ID>

5. Create the Visual Recognition service in Bluemix

$ cf create-service visual_recognition free visual-recognition-service

6. Push it live!

$ cf push

See the full [Getting Started][getting_started] documentation for more details, including code snippets and references.

Running locally

The application uses Node.js and npm so you will have to download and install them as part of the steps below.

1. Copy the credentials from your visual-recognition-service service in Bluemix to app.js, you can see the credentials using:

   $ cf env <application-name>

   Example output:

   System-Provided:
   {
   "VCAP_SERVICES": {
     "visual_recognition": [{
         "credentials": {
           "url": "<url>",
           "password": "<password>",
           "username": "<username>"
         },
       "label": "visual_recognition",
       "name": "visual-recognition-service",
       "plan": "free"
    }]
   }
   }

   You need to copy username, password and url.

2. Install Node.js

3. Go to the project folder in a terminal and run: npm install

4. Start the application

5. node app.js

6. Go to http://localhost:3000

Troubleshooting

To troubleshoot your Bluemix app the main useful source of information are the logs, to see them, run:

$ cf logs <application-name> --recent

License

This sample code is licensed under Apache 2.0. Full license text is available in LICENSE.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.

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