Building Applications with SkyBiometry Public API

SkyBiometry provides a facial detection and recognition API that allows developers to create intelligent applications. To begin, you must sign up for an account at SkyBiometry. Once you have an account, you will receive a Client ID and Client Secret. These credentials will enable you to access the API endpoints.

API Endpoints

Detect Faces

Detect Faces endpoint analyzes an image and returns with the facial features of all the persons detected in the image.

POST https://api.skybiometry.com/fc/faces/detect

Example Code in JavaScript

const axios = require("axios");

const clientId = "Your Client ID Here";
const clientSecret = "Your Client Secret Here";
const imageUrl = "https://path/to/image";

axios
  .post("https://api.skybiometry.com/fc/faces/detect", {
    api_key: clientId,
    api_secret: clientSecret,
    urls: imageUrl,
  })
  .then((response) => console.log(response.data))
  .catch((error) => console.log(error));

Recognize Faces

The Recognize Faces endpoint compares an image against a previously stored gallery or against the set of detected faces from the Detect Faces API.

POST https://api.skybiometry.com/fc/faces/recognize

Example Code in JavaScript

const axios = require("axios");

const clientId = "Your Client ID Here";
const clientSecret = "Your Client Secret Here";
const imageUrl = "https://path/to/image";
const galleryName = "Your Gallery Name";

axios
  .post("https://api.skybiometry.com/fc/faces/recognize", {
    api_key: clientId,
    api_secret: clientSecret,
    urls: imageUrl,
    namespace: galleryName,
  })
  .then((response) => console.log(response.data))
  .catch((error) => console.log(error));

Create a Gallery

Create a Gallery endpoint creates a new gallery where you can store faces.

POST https://api.skybiometry.com/fc/galleries/create

Example Code in JavaScript

const axios = require("axios");

const clientId = "Your Client ID Here";
const clientSecret = "Your Client Secret Here";
const galleryName = "Your Gallery Name";

axios
  .post("https://api.skybiometry.com/fc/galleries/create", {
    api_key: clientId,
    api_secret: clientSecret,
    name_space: galleryName,
  })
  .then((response) => console.log(response.data))
  .catch((error) => console.log(error));

Add Face to Gallery

Add a Face to Gallery endpoint adds a face to a previously created gallery.

POST https://api.skybiometry.com/fc/faces/recognize

Example Code in JavaScript

const axios = require("axios");

const clientId = "Your Client ID Here";
const clientSecret = "Your Client Secret Here";
const imageUrl = "https://path/to/image";
const galleryName = "Your Gallery Name";
const faceId = "Unique Identifier for the Face";

axios
  .post("https://api.skybiometry.com/fc/faces/recognize", {
    api_key: clientId,
    api_secret: clientSecret,
    urls: imageUrl,
    name_space: galleryName,
    uid: faceId,
  })
  .then((response) => console.log(response.data))
  .catch((error) => console.log(error));

Conclusion

SkyBiometry provides a powerful API that can help you build intelligent applications that detect and recognize faces. This article explored some of the core API endpoints, and showed example code in JavaScript. For more information about this API, check out the SkyBiometry documentation.