Cognitive API Workshop

Intro

Name: Chris Wiederspan
Role: Microsoft Azure App Dev Specialist
Email: chris.wiederspan@microsoft.com

Goals

1. Explore and understand the Azure Cognitive Service APIs
2. Experiment with Azure Logic Apps

Prerequisites

• Full access to a usable Azure account. You can create a Free Trial here.

• Download and install Azure Storage Explorer

• Download Postman, a developer utility for calling raw APIs.

• Download VS Code, a lightweight code editor from Microsoft.

  • Install the Azure Account extension

  • Install the Azure Functions extension

  • npm i -g azure-functions-core-tools@core

Instruction Summary

• Create Resource Group
• Create Storage
  • Create Blob Container
• Create CosmosDB
  • Create document Collection
• Create Computer Vision API
• Create Content Moderation API
• Create Face API

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• Show API Usage from Postman
• Create Logic App
• Connect Blob Storage
• Read File content
• Execute APIs
• Compose results
• Write to CosmosDB
• Show JSON in CosmosDB

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• Create Java Function
• Debug function locally

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• Show C# Function
• Debug function locally
• Show VSTS DevOps

Postman Collection

Use Postman to call Cognitive APIs

Sample Images

There are several documents in the Sample Images folder that you can use to test.