IBM Watson Tone Analyzer service credentials

Question

I have been trying to run a query against IBM Watson Tone Analyzer service and keep getting an error that my service credentials are not recognized.

I am sure that I am entering the correct credentials. Here are the steps that I took to get the service credentials:

Signed up with bluemix.net.
Clicked on Tone Analyzer icon.
Clicked on service credentials.
Clicked on add credentials and used the credentials that were obtained from this step.

I followed these steps multiple times but keep running into same error: watson_developer_cloud.watson_developer_cloud_service.WatsonException: Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials

I would really appreciate any insights here.

please remove the watson-dialog tag, this question is about tone analyzer — Leo

joe joe · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-29T17:11:39

I was just able to run a test without any errors. Here are the steps I took:

1. Created a new IBM Watson Tone Analyzer instance:

2. Looked at the service credentials page: (I've changed the username to "abcuser" and the password to "abcpass" for this example.)

3. I ran this curl command to test out my service:

    curl -u "{username}":"{password}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"text\": \"Hi Team, I know the times are difficult! Our sales have been disappointing for the past three quarters for our data analytics product suite. We have a competitive data analytics product suite in the industry. But we need to do our job selling it! \"}" "https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/tone-analyzer/api/v3/tone?version=2016-05-19"

so replacing the username and password, I get...

    curl -u "abcuser":"abcpass" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"text\": \"Hi Team, I know the times are difficult! Our sales have been disappointing for the past three quarters for our data analytics product suite. We have a competitive data analytics product suite in the industry. But we need to do our job selling it! \"}" "https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/tone-analyzer/api/v3/tone?version=2016-05-19"

4. Finally, I got this response:

{
    "document_tone":{
        "tone_categories":[
            {
                "tones":[
                    {
                        "score":0.455891,
                        "tone_id":"anger",
                        "tone_name":"Anger"
                    },
                    {
                        "score":0.156707,
                        "tone_id":"disgust",
                        "tone_name":"Disgust"
                    },
                    {
                        "score":0.17315,
                        "tone_id":"fear",
                        "tone_name":"Fear"
                    },
                    {
                        "score":0.190073,
                        "tone_id":"joy",
                        "tone_nam e":"Joy"
                    },
                    {
                        "score":0.291627,
                        "tone_id":"sadness",
                        "tone_name":"Sadness"
                    }
                ],
                "category_id":"emotion_tone",
                "category_name":"Emotion Tone"
            },
            {
                "tones":[
                    {
                        "score":0.459,
                        "tone_id":"analytical",
                        "tone_name":"Analytical"
                    },
                    {
                        "score":0.0,
                        "tone_id":"confident",
                        "tone_name":"Confide nt"
                    },
                    {
                        "score":0.0,
                        "tone_id":"tentative",
                        "tone_name":"Tentative"
                    }
                ],
                "category_id":"language_tone",
                "category_name":"Language Tone"
            },
            {
                "tones":[
                    {
                        "score":0.03,
                        "tone_id":"openness_big5",
                        "tone_name":"Openness"
                    },
                    {
                        "score":0.188,
                        "tone_id":"conscientiousness_big5",
                        "tone_nam e":"Conscientiousness"
                    },
                    {
                        "score":0.405,
                        "tone_id":"extraversion_big5",
                        "tone_name":"Extraversion"
                    },
                    {
                        "score":0.879,
                        "tone_id":"agreeableness_big5",
                        "tone_name":"Agreeableness"
                    },
                    {
                        "score":0.962,
                        "tone_id":"emotional_range_big5",
                        "tone_name":"Emotional Range"
                    }
                ],
                "category_ id":"social_tone",
                "category_name":"Social Tone"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Edit:

If you are having trouble with the Python SDK, try this:

import json
from watson_developer_cloud import ToneAnalyzerV3Beta


tone_analyzer = ToneAnalyzerV3Beta(
    url='https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/tone-analyzer/api',
    username='USERNAME',
    password='PASSWORD',
    version='2016-02-11')

print(json.dumps(tone_analyzer.tone(text='I am very happy'), indent=2))

IBM Watson Tone Analyzer service credentials

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