ELIXIR ON GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM

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Upload files to Google Cloud Storage
Analyze Audio with the Cloud Speech API
Using Google BigQuery
Upload Files to Google Cloud Storage
1
Install 
Add google_cloud_storage as a dependency in mix.exs
2
Set up a Cloud Platform Console project
  1. Sign in to your Google account.

    If you don't already have one, sign up for a new account.

  2. Set up a Cloud Platform Console project.

    Set up a project

    Click to:

    • Create or select a project.
    • Enable the Cloud Storage API for that project.
    • Create a service account.
    • Download a private key as JSON.

    You can view and manage these resources at any time in the Cloud Platform Console.

3
Write your code 
@doc """
List storage buckets for a project.

## Examples

    iex> GoogleApi.Storage.Samples.upload_file("bucket_id", "test/file.txt")
    Uploaded file.text to  https://www.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/bucket_id/o/file.txt
    your_project_bucket2

"""
def upload_file(bucket_id, file_path) do
  # Authenticate.
  {:ok, token} = Goth.Token.for_scope("https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform")
  conn = GoogleApi.Storage.V1.Connection.new(token.token)

  # Make the API request.
  {:ok, object} = GoogleApi.Storage.V1.Api.Objects.storage_objects_insert_simple(
    conn,
    bucket_id,
    "multipart",
    %{name: Path.basename(file_path)},
    file_path
  )

  # Print the object.
  IO.puts("Uploaded #{object.name} to #{object.selfLink}")
end
Analyze Audio with the Cloud Speech API
1
Install 
Add google_cloud_speech as a dependency in mix.exs
2
Set up a Cloud Platform Console project
  1. Sign in to your Google account.

    If you don't already have one, sign up for a new account.

  2. Set up a Cloud Platform Console project.

    Set up a project

    Click to:

    • Create or select a project.
    • Enable the Cloud Speech API for that project.
    • Create a service account.
    • Download a private key as JSON.

    You can view and manage these resources at any time in the Cloud Platform Console.

3
Write your code 
@doc """
Transcribe text from an audio file.

## Examples

    iex> GoogleApi.Speech.Samples.recognize("gs://elixir-samples/audio.raw", :LINEAR16, 16000)
    how old is the Brooklyn Bridge
    :ok

"""
def recognize(audio_uri, encoding, sampleRateHertz, languageCode \\ "en_US") do
  # Build the RecognizeRequest struct
  request = %GoogleApi.Speech.V1.Model.RecognizeRequest{
    audio: %GoogleApi.Speech.V1.Model.RecognitionAudio{uri: audio_uri},
    config: %GoogleApi.Speech.V1.Model.RecognitionConfig{
      encoding:  encoding,
      sampleRateHertz: sampleRateHertz,
      languageCode: languageCode
    }
  }

  # Authenticate
  {:ok, token} = Goth.Token.for_scope("https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform")
  conn = GoogleApi.Speech.V1.Connection.new(token.token)

  # Make the API request.
  {:ok, response} = GoogleApi.Speech.V1.Api.Speech.speech_speech_recognize(
    conn,
    [body: request]
  )

  # Print the results.
  Enum.each(response.results, fn(result) ->
    Enum.each(result.alternatives, fn(alt) ->
      IO.puts(alt.transcript)
    end)
  end)
end
Using Google BigQuery
1
Install 
Add google_cloud_big_query as a dependency in mix.exs
2
Set up a Cloud Platform Console project
  1. Sign in to your Google account.

    If you don't already have one, sign up for a new account.

  2. Set up a Cloud Platform Console project.

    Set up a project

    Click to:

    • Create or select a project.
    • Enable the BigQuery API for that project.
    • Create a service account.
    • Download a private key as JSON.

    You can view and manage these resources at any time in the Cloud Platform Console.

3
Write your code 
@doc """
List BigQuery buckets for a project.

## Examples

    iex> sql = "SELECT TOP(corpus, 10) as title, COUNT(*) as unique_words
                FROM [publicdata:samples.shakespeare]"
    iex> GoogleApi.BigQuery.Samples.sync_query(project_id, sql)

"""
def sync_query(project_id, sql) do
  # Fetch access token
  {:ok, token} = Goth.Token.for_scope("https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform")
  conn = GoogleApi.BigQuery.V2.Connection.new(token.token)

  # Make the API request
  {:ok, response} = GoogleApi.BigQuery.V2.Api.Jobs.bigquery_jobs_query(
    conn,
    project_id,
    [body: %GoogleApi.BigQuery.V2.Model.QueryRequest{ query: sql }]
  )
  response.rows
  |> Enum.each(fn(row) ->
    row.f
    |> Enum.with_index
    |> Enum.each(fn({cell, i}) ->
      IO.puts "#{Enum.at(response.schema.fields, i).name}: #{cell.v}"
    end)
  end)
end
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