BabelFy API Client

Python BabelFy entity tagger. Can be used as a library or command-line tool. Compatible with both Python 2.7 as well as Python 3.

Installation

pip install babelpy

or clone this github repository and run python setup.py install, optionally prepend the commands with sudo for global installation.

Usage

Add your Babelfy API Key to the config file or provide it as an argument.

Use as command-line tool

babelpy [-h] [-t  | -tf ] [-e] [-ae] [-m] [-am] [-p] [-ex]

Options:

-h,  --help                 show a help message and exit
-key --api-key              BabelFy API key
-t   --text                 text to be annotated by BabelFy API
-tf  --text-file            path to the file containing the input text
-e,  --entities             get entity data
-ae  --all-entities         get entity and non-entity data
-m   --merged-entities      get merged entities only
-am  --all-merged-entities  get all merged entities
-p   --print                dump all babelfy data to stdout
-ex  --export               filename of the output file

Example:

babelpy -tf ~/data/fashion.txt -am -ex ~/data/fashion.json

See babelpy -h for help.

Use as a library

from babelfy import BabelfyClient


# Instantiate BabelFy client.
params = dict()
params['lang'] = LANG
babel_client = BabelfyClient(API_KEY, params)

# Babelfy sentence.
babel_client.babelfy(TEXT_TO_BE_BABELFIED)

# Get entity data.
print(babel_client.entities)

# Get entity and non-entity data.
print(babel_client.all_entities)

# Get merged entities only.
print(babel_client.merged_entities)

# Get all merged entities.
babel_client.all_merged_entities

Run Tests with python tests/run_tests.py

License

GNU - GPL 3.0