Google Vision API Python Sample

GoogleVisionAPI.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import json
import urllib2
import base64

API_KEY = "API_KEY"
API_URL = "https://vision.googleapis.com/v1/images:annotate?key=" + API_KEY

with open("faulkner.jpg", "rb") as image_file:
    encoded_string = base64.b64encode(image_file.read())

features = [{"type": "LABEL_DETECTION", "maxResults": 10}]
image = {"content": encoded_string}
request = {"image" : image, "features" : features}
body = { "requests": [request] }

req = urllib2.Request(API_URL)
req.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')

response = urllib2.urlopen(req, json.dumps(body))
print response.read()