Can google vision API accept external image URL?

Question

I am reading documentation on vision API request schema. In image source, I only see option of using url of GCS image paths. Is it possible to use external image url like http://example.com/images/image01.jpg ?

Answer 1

Yes, this is working perfectly fine:

{
  "requests": [
    {
      "features": [
        {
          "type": "WEB_DETECTION"
        }
      ],
      "image": {
        "source": {
          "imageUri": "http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/242/592/1c8.jpg"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Answer 2

Yes it can, but ONLY using google cloud storage urls. Try this:

{
  "requests": [
    {
      "image": {
        "source": {
          gcsImageUri: 'gs://something.com/image',
        },
      },
      "features": ...
      "imageContext": ...
    },
  ]
}