google/cloud-language

Cloud Natural Language Client for PHP

Package info

github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-php-language

pkg:composer/google/cloud-language

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v1.2.1 2026-05-12 19:06 UTC

Requires

Suggests

  • ext-grpc: The gRPC extension enables use of the performant gRPC transport
  • ext-protobuf: Provides a significant increase in throughput over the pure PHP protobuf implementation. See https://cloud.google.com/php/grpc for installation instructions.
  • google/cloud-storage: Analyze documents stored in Google Cloud Storage

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None

Conflicts

None

Replaces

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Apache-2.0 54234b2332199b2ecfc830a9492d6b268e21feff

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Last update: 2026-06-12 21:23:16 UTC

README

Idiomatic PHP client for Cloud Natural Language.

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NOTE: This repository is part of Google Cloud PHP. Any support requests, bug reports, or development contributions should be directed to that project.

Provides natural language understanding technologies to developers, including sentiment analysis, entity analysis, entity sentiment analysis, content classification, and syntax analysis. This API is part of the larger Cloud Machine Learning API family.

Installation

To begin, install the preferred dependency manager for PHP, Composer.

Now install this component:

$ composer require google/cloud-language

Authentication

Please see our Authentication guide for more information on authenticating your client. Once authenticated, you'll be ready to start making requests.

Sample

use Google\ApiCore\ApiException;
use Google\Cloud\Language\V2\AnalyzeSentimentRequest;
use Google\Cloud\Language\V2\AnalyzeSentimentResponse;
use Google\Cloud\Language\V2\Client\LanguageServiceClient;
use Google\Cloud\Language\V2\Document;

// Create a client.
$languageServiceClient = new LanguageServiceClient();

// Prepare the request message.
$document = new Document();
$request = (new AnalyzeSentimentRequest())
 ->setDocument($document);

// Call the API and handle any network failures.
try {
 /** @var AnalyzeSentimentResponse $response */
 $response = $languageServiceClient->analyzeSentiment($request);
 printf('Response data: %s' . PHP_EOL, $response->serializeToJsonString());
} catch (ApiException $ex) {
 printf('Call failed with message: %s' . PHP_EOL, $ex->getMessage());
}

Debugging

Please see our Debugging guide for more information about the debugging tools.

Version

This component is considered GA (generally available). As such, it will not introduce backwards-incompatible changes in any minor or patch releases. We will address issues and requests with the highest priority.

Next Steps

  1. Understand the official documentation.
  2. Take a look at in-depth usage samples.