Method: documents.classifyText

Classifies a document into categories.

HTTP request

POST https://language.googleapis.com/v2/documents:classifyText

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "document": {
    object (Document)
  }
}
Fields
document

object (Document)

Required. Input document.

Response body

The document classification response message.

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "categories": [
    {
      object (ClassificationCategory)
    }
  ],
  "languageCode": string,
  "languageSupported": boolean
}
Fields
categories[]

object (ClassificationCategory)

Categories representing the input document.
languageCode

string

The language of the text, which will be the same as the language specified in the request or, if not specified, the automatically-detected language. See Document.language_code field for more details.
languageSupported

boolean

Whether the language is officially supported. The API may still return a response when the language is not supported, but it is on a best effort basis.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-language
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.