Tagging media with Google Cloud APIs

Prerequisites

• A GCP project with billing account attached
• Video Intelligence API and Vision API enabled.

Supported media

• IMAGE
• VIDEO

Installation

pipuv

pip install media-tagging[google-cloud]

uv pip install media-tagging[google-cloud]

If you want to use server capabilities of media-tagger you need to install additional dependencies:

pip install media-tagging[server]

Usage

Important

google-cloud tagger only supports tag command.

clipythoncurl

media-tagger tag MEDIA_PATHs \
  --media-type IMAGE \
  --tagger google-cloud

import media_tagging

media_tagger = media_tagging.MediaTaggingService()
request = media_tagging.MediaTaggingRequest(
  media_type='IMAGE',
  media_paths=['image1.png', 'image2.png'],
  tagger_type='google-cloud',
)

result = media_tagger.tag_media(request)

result.save(output='tagging_results', writer='csv')

curl -X 'POST' \
  'http://127.0.0.1:8000/media_tagging/tag' \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "tagger_type": "google-cloud",
    "media_type": "IMAGE",
    "media_paths": [
      "image1.png",
      "image2.png"
    ]
  }'

n_tags

google-cloud tag support n_tags parameter to limit number of tags returned from API. Learn more.