Analyzing Sentiment

Protocol

To analyze sentiment in a document, make a POST request to the documents:analyzeSentiment REST method and provide the appropriate request body as shown in the following example.

The example uses the gcloud auth application-default print-access-token command to obtain an access token for a service account set up for the project using the Google Cloud Platform gcloud CLI. For instructions on installing the gcloud CLI, setting up a project with a service account see the Quickstart.

curl -X POST \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer "$(gcloud auth application-default print-access-token) \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
     --data "{
  'encodingType': 'UTF8',
  'document': {
    'type': 'PLAIN_TEXT',
    'content': 'Enjoy your vacation!'
  }
}" "https://language.googleapis.com/v2/documents:analyzeSentiment"

If you don't specify document.language_code, then the language will be automatically detected. For information on which languages are supported by the Natural Language API, see Language Support. See the Document reference documentation for more information on configuring the request body.

If the request is successful, the server returns a 200 OK HTTP status code and the response in JSON format:

{
  "documentSentiment": {
    "magnitude": 0.8,
    "score": 0.8
  },
  "language": "en",
  "sentences": [
    {
      "text": {
        "content": "Enjoy your vacation!",
        "beginOffset": 0
      },
      "sentiment": {
        "magnitude": 0.8,
        "score": 0.8
      }
    }
  ]
}

documentSentiment.score indicates positive sentiment with a value greater than zero, and negative sentiment with a value less than zero.

gcloud

Refer to the analyze-sentiment command for complete details.

To perform sentiment analysis, use the gcloud CLI and use the --content flag to identify the content to analyze:

gcloud ml language analyze-sentiment --content="Enjoy your vacation!"

If the request is successful, the server returns a response in JSON format:

{
  "documentSentiment": {
    "magnitude": 0.8,
    "score": 0.8
  },
  "language": "en",
  "sentences": [
    {
      "text": {
        "content": "Enjoy your vacation!",
        "beginOffset": 0
      },
      "sentiment": {
        "magnitude": 0.8,
        "score": 0.8
      }
    }
  ]
}

documentSentiment.score indicates positive sentiment with a value greater than zero, and negative sentiment with a value less than zero.

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for Natural Language, see Natural Language client libraries. For more information, see the Natural Language Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Natural Language, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	language "cloud.google.com/go/language/apiv2"
	"cloud.google.com/go/language/apiv2/languagepb"
)

// analyzeSentiment sends a string of text to the Cloud Natural Language API to
// assess the sentiment of the text.
func analyzeSentiment(w io.Writer, text string) error {
	ctx := context.Background()

	// Initialize client.
	client, err := language.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer client.Close()

	resp, err := client.AnalyzeSentiment(ctx, &languagepb.AnalyzeSentimentRequest{
		Document: &languagepb.Document{
			Source: &languagepb.Document_Content{
				Content: text,
			},
			Type: languagepb.Document_PLAIN_TEXT,
		},
		EncodingType: languagepb.EncodingType_UTF8,
	})

	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("AnalyzeSentiment: %w", err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Response: %q\n", resp)

	return nil
}

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for Natural Language, see Natural Language client libraries. For more information, see the Natural Language Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Natural Language, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

// Instantiate the Language client com.google.cloud.language.v2.LanguageServiceClient
try (LanguageServiceClient language = LanguageServiceClient.create()) {
  Document doc = Document.newBuilder().setContent(text).setType(Type.PLAIN_TEXT).build();
  AnalyzeSentimentResponse response = language.analyzeSentiment(doc);
  Sentiment sentiment = response.getDocumentSentiment();
  if (sentiment == null) {
    System.out.println("No sentiment found");
  } else {
    System.out.printf("Sentiment magnitude: %.3f\n", sentiment.getMagnitude());
    System.out.printf("Sentiment score: %.3f\n", sentiment.getScore());
  }
  return sentiment;
}

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for Natural Language, see Natural Language client libraries. For more information, see the Natural Language Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Natural Language, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

from google.cloud import language_v2


def sample_analyze_sentiment(text_content: str = "I am so happy and joyful.") -> None:
    """
    Analyzes Sentiment in a string.

    Args:
      text_content: The text content to analyze.
    """

    client = language_v2.LanguageServiceClient()

    # text_content = 'I am so happy and joyful.'

    # Available types: PLAIN_TEXT, HTML
    document_type_in_plain_text = language_v2.Document.Type.PLAIN_TEXT

    # Optional. If not specified, the language is automatically detected.
    # For list of supported languages:
    # https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/docs/languages
    language_code = "en"
    document = {
        "content": text_content,
        "type_"