tone analyzer api cannot be connected

Question

I was trying to connect to Tone Analyzer through its API. I have created credentials on Bluemix as followes:

ta_url = "https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/tone-analyzer-experimental/api/v2/profile"
username =  "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
password = "yyyyyyyyyy"

I am able to connect to Personality Insight using the same method (the credentials are created separately).

Your kind help will be appreciated!

Best regards, Ken

Answer 1

Tone Analyzer and Personality Insights are two different services.
Looking at the url you are trying to use:

https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/tone-analyzer-experimental/api/v2/profile

I would guess that you are trying to use the /tone call which analyzes the "tone" of a piece of text.

The correct url should be:

https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/tone-analyzer-beta/api/v3/tone

Example Curl request

curl -X POST \
 -u USERNAME:PASSWORD \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -d 'This is an important email. You should be working on X and have it ready by Friday' \
 "https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/tone-analyzer-experimental/api/v3/tone?version=2016-02-11"

Make sure you replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with your service credentials.

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See the Tone Analyzer documentation to read more about the service.
See API Explorer to learn more about the API.

Update: Tone Analyzer is now Beta; URLs have been corrected.