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Is there a difference between account's password and "host password" (in IBM Cloud)?

I created a following shell-script:

curl -X POST -u "my username" \
"https://gateway-lon.watsonplatform.net/natural-language-understanding/api/blah-blah-blah..." \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
  "url": "http://.../screenplay.txt",
  "features": {
    "sentiment": {},
    "categories": {},
    "concepts": {},
    "entities": {},
    "keywords": {}
  }
}'

Then it asked me "Enter host password for user", and I did.

Result: {"code":401, "error": "Unauthorized"}

I typed a password of an IBM account. Maybe I had to create another one just for API?

Solution

  • Please refer to the API Documentation - https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/natural-language-understanding#analyze-text

    You will need a service API Key, which you can obtain from IBM Cloud. The getting started tutorial from the service documentation shows you how - https://console.bluemix.net/docs/services/natural-language-understanding/getting-started.html#getting-started-tutorial