This directory contains samples for Google Cloud Natural Language API. The Google Cloud Natural Language API provides natural language understanding technologies to developers, including sentiment analysis, entity recognition, and syntax analysis. This API is part of the larger Cloud Machine Learning API.

This sample requires you to have authentication setup. Refer to the Authentication Getting Started Guide for instructions on setting up credentials for applications.

1. Clone python-docs-samples and change directory to the sample directory you want to use.

   $ git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples.git

2. Install pip and virtualenv if you do not already have them. You may want to refer to the Python Development Environment Setup Guide for Google Cloud Platform for instructions.

3. Create a virtualenv. Samples are compatible with Python 2.7 and 3.4+.

   $ virtualenv env
   $ source env/bin/activate

4. Install the dependencies needed to run the samples.

   $ pip install -r requirements.txt

To run this sample:

$ python analyze.py

usage: analyze.py [-h] {entities,sentiment,syntax} text

Analyzes text using the Google Cloud Natural Language API.

positional arguments:
  {entities,sentiment,syntax}
  text

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit