Overview: The purpose of this blog post is to make sense of alcohol detection with an API. To do so, you have to understand how these types of software work. Believe it or not, but it’s quite simple. You just need a computer or a mobile phone, an Internet connection and that’s it. It may seem like a huge task to you, especially if this is your first time using a detection API.
However, you’ll get used to it after a few tries. Once you start seeing the improvemnt on your work, you’ll never regret purchasing one for your own or for your business. What is an API? I hear you asking. Well, first of all you should know that an API is an abbreviation for Application Programming Interface (API). But these terms can be complicated if you don’t know what they actually mean. For instance, Application refers to the software that will provide us with the data we request. Programming refers to how this data is transmitted and how the API recieves in order to give us the desired output. And lastly, Interface describes how our request is made and how the information is displayed once we receive it.
As simple as it may sound, APIs are provided by companies that have developed outstanding software for various fields of work and even for entertainment. But for now, we’re looking for alcohol detection APIs that will help us find out if there are some alcoholic beverages present in an image we pass to them.
On the other side, if the whole group decides to go clubbing because they recently found out their favorite artist was in town and
Be able to recognize any alcoholic beverages present in an image you pass to this API.
To make use of it, you must first:
1- Go to Alcohol Detection – Image Moderation API and simply click on the button “Subscribe for free” to start using the API.
2- After signing up in Zyla API Hub, you’ll be given your personal API key. Using this one-of-a-kind combination of numbers and letters, you’ll be able to use, connect, and manage APIs!
3- Employ the different API endpoints depending on what you are looking for.
4- Once you meet your needed endpoint, make the API call by pressing the button “run” and see the results on your screen.
