Mirador

A simple Ruby client for the mirador Image moderation API.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'mirador'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install mirador

Usage

To get started, you need an API key, available from mirador.im/join. If you have problems with the API or this client, please contact support@mirador.im.

Mirador::Result and Mirador::ResultList

All multiple-request methods (e.g., classify_files), return a Mirador::ResultList, which is effectively a list of Mirador::Result objects; single-request methods (e.g., classify_url) return a Mirador::Result object.

Classifying Files & Buffers

You can classify 4 types of files/file-objects:

• file objects (e.g., x where x = File.open('myfile.jpg')); classify_files
• filenames myfile.jpg classify_files
• buffers buffer = File.read('myfile.jpg') classify_buffers
• base64-encoded buffers (e.g., from a data URI) classify_encoded_strings

The methods for file-based classification are as follows:

Mirador::Client#classify_files

require 'mirador'
mc = Mirador::Client.new('your_api_key')

results = mc.classify_files('test.jpg', 'picture.jpg')

assert results['test.jpg']
assert_equal results.length, 2

results.each do |res|
  puts "#{ res.id }, #{ res.value }"
end

results.each do |id, res|
  puts "#{ id }, #{ res.value }"
end

You can also specify an id to be used:

require 'mirador'
mc = Mirador::Client.new 'your_api_key'

# first method: use ids as keys
results = mc.classify_files(nsfw: 'nsfw.jpg', sfw: 'sfw.jpg')

assert results[:nsfw]
assert results[:sfw]

# second method: pass an array of { id:, data: } hashes
results = mc.classify_files([{ id: :nsfw, data: 'nsfw.jpg'}, { id: :sfw, data: 'sfw.jpg' }])

assert results[:nsfw]
assert results[:sfw]

File can be either a filename or a file object; e.g., the following is also valid:

results = mc.classify_files(nsfw: File.open('nsfw.jpg'))

Mirador::Client#classify_file

A shortcut for classifying a single file; this will return a Mirador::Result instead of a Mirador::ResultList:

require 'mirador'
mc = Mirador::Client.new 'your_api_key'

# first method: use ids as keys
nsfw = mc.classify_file(nsfw: 'nsfw.jpg')

puts nsfw.value

Mirador:Client#classify_buffers

Classify a buffer, e.g., an already-read file. This simplifies the classification of file uploads, e.g. POST data. The interface is identical to classify_files, only differing in the actual data passed in:

require 'mirador'
mc = Mirador::Client.new 'your_api_key'

nsfw_buf = File.read('nsfw.jpg')
sfw_buf = File.read('sfw.jpg')

# these are equivalent
results = mc.classify_buffers(nsfw: nsfw_buf, sfw: sfw_buf)
results = mc.classify_buffers([{id: :nsfw, data: nsfw_buf}, {id: :sfw, data: sfw_buf}])

# since buffers dont have a name, you just get an index as id
results = mc.classify_buffers(nsfw_buf, sfw_buf)

Mirador::Client#classify_buffer

As with classify_file, there is a shortcut for classifying only one buffer; see classify_file for clarifications on usage (it's identical).

Mirador::Client#classify_encoded_strings

The Mirador API internally represents images as base64-encoded strings (agnostic of image encoding); this method lets you pass in an alread-encoded string in the event that you're also using base64 encoding elsewhere in your system. Usage is the same as classify_buffers:

require 'mirador'
require 'base64'

mc = Mirador::Client.new 'your_api_key'

nsfw_buf = Base64.encode64(File.read('nsfw.jpg'))
sfw_buf = Base64.encode64(File.read('sfw.jpg'))

# these are equivalent
results = mc.classify_encoded_strings(nsfw: nsfw_buf, sfw: sfw_buf)
results = mc.classify_encoded_strings([{id: :nsfw, data: nsfw_buf}, {id: :sfw, data: sfw_buf}])

# since strings dont have a name, you just get an index as id
results = mc.classify_encoded_strings(nsfw_buf, sfw_buf)

Mirador::Client#classify_encoded_string

Another helper for only working with 1 request/result at a time. See classify_file for more info.

Mirador::Client#classify_data_uris

This simplifies data transfer between client applications and the mirador API. For example, given the following javascript:

document.getElementById('form-field').addEventListener('change', function (e) {

  var file = this.files[0];

  var reader = new FileReader();
  reader.onload = function (e) {
    $.post('/proxy/mirador', { id: file.name, data: e.target.result });
  }

  reader.readAsDataURL(file);
});

Your could classify that data url with the following code:

res = mc.classify_data_uris(request['id'] => request['data'])

# send the result
res[request['id']].to_json

# or, even easier
mc.classify_data_uri(request['id'] => request['data']).to_json

Otherwise, classify_data_uris and classify_data_uri have identical interfaces to the other methods covered so far.

Classify URLs

You can easily classify a publically-available URL (e.g., a public s3 bucket), with classify_urls and classify_url. The interfaces for these methods are identical to the file-handling methods covered above.

Mirador::Client#classify_urls

The only things to keep in mind with URLs:

• must be publically-accessibly
• must be < Mirador::Client::MAX_ID_LEN if you are using the url as the item's id (see below)
• download/response time on url will affect response time of result, must be less than 60 seconds.

Examples:

Assigning specific ids to urls:

require 'mirador'

mc = Mirador::Client.new 'your_api_key'

res = mc.classify_urls(nsfw: 'http://static.mirador.im/test/nsfw.jpg', sfw: 'http://static.mirador.im/test/sfw.jpg')

assert res[:nsfw]
assert res[:sfw].safe

Implicitly using url as its own id:

require 'mirador'

nsfw_url = 'http://static.mirador.im/test/nsfw.jpg'
sfw_url = 'http://static.mirador.im/test/sfw.jpg'

mc = Mirador::Client.new 'your_api_key'
res = mc.classify_urls(nsfw_url, sfw_url)

puts res[nsfw_url].value
puts res[sfw_url].value

Classify a single URL using Mirador::Client#classify_url

require 'mirador'

mc = Mirador::Client.new 'your_api_key'
nsfw = mc.classify_url(nsfw_url)

assert (not nsfw.safe)
puts nsfw.value

Mirador::Result

The Mirador::Result class wraps the output of the API for a specific image/url. It has the following attributes:

• @id [Mixed]: the id, as specified in the request, or implied (see above)
• @safe [Boolean]: whether the image should be considered flagged/containing adult content
• @value [Float 0.0-1.0]: A float indicating the likelyhood of the image containing adult content (useful for creating custom thresholds)
• @error [String]: will only be non-nil if this is an error

The Mirador::Result object also has a couple of convenience methods:

• #to_h - convert to a hash
• #to_json - if json is require'd, serialize to json
• #failed? - returns a boolean indicating whether image is a failure/error
• #to_s - returns a string representation of the result`
• #name (deprecated) - this simply maps to @id

Mirador::ResultList [Enumerable]

Methods that return multiple results do so by returning a single Mirador::ResultList. This object is used in lieu of a Hash or Array as to provide mixed-access. You can treat it as an array, iterating via each do |x|, indexing with integers, or by simply calling #to_a, or as a hash, indexing with @id's from image-requests.

The ResultList has the following methods:

• #[](key) operator override to index the ResultList. You can index by integers in range of 0 - ResultList#length, or by an @id for one of the Result objects within.
• #to_a convert to an array of Mirador::Result objects
• #length the number of items in the ResultList
• #update equivalent to Hash#update
• #to_h conver to a hash
• #to_json serialize the resultlist as json
• #each ResultList includes Enumerable, and this implementation of #each checks the arity of blocks passed in to allow iteration either as an array or as a Hash.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Support

Please submit and bugs as issues, and don't hesitate to contact support@mirador.im with questions or issues.