Connect any IP camera to the ANPR cloud API

import cv2
import requests
import time
import io

API_URL = "https://api.anpr.software/v1/detect"
API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"
CAMERA_RTSP = "rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/stream"

cap = cv2.VideoCapture(CAMERA_RTSP)

while True:
    ret, frame = cap.read()
    if not ret:
        continue

    # Encode frame as JPEG
    _, buffer = cv2.imencode('.jpg', frame)
    image_bytes = io.BytesIO(buffer.tobytes())

    # Send to ANPR API
    response = requests.post(
        API_URL,
        headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"},
        files={"image": ("frame.jpg", image_bytes, "image/jpeg")}
    )

    result = response.json()
    if result.get("success") and result["data"].get("plate_text"):
        print(f"Plate detected: {result['data']['plate_text']} "
              f"({result['data']['confidence']*100:.1f}% confidence)")

    time.sleep(1)  # Adjust interval as needed (1 frame per second)

cap.release()

import os
import time
import requests

WATCH_DIR = "/path/to/ftp/snapshots"
API_URL = "https://api.anpr.software/v1/detect"
API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"
PROCESSED_DIR = "/path/to/processed"

while True:
    for filename in os.listdir(WATCH_DIR):
        if filename.lower().endswith(('.jpg', '.jpeg', '.png')):
            filepath = os.path.join(WATCH_DIR, filename)

            with open(filepath, 'rb') as f:
                response = requests.post(
                    API_URL,
                    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"},
                    files={"image": f}
                )

            result = response.json()
            print(f"{filename}: {result}")

            # Move to processed folder
            os.rename(filepath, os.path.join(PROCESSED_DIR, filename))

    time.sleep(2)

{
  "event": "plate_recognized",
  "timestamp": "2026-02-17T14:23:01Z",
  "data": {
    "plate_id": 0,
    "position": {
      "x1": 421, "y1": 694,
      "x2": 583, "y2": 736
    },
    "confidence": 0.876,
    "text": {
      "plate_number_en": "5309 ZSA",
      "plate_number_ar": "م ص أ ٥٣٩",
      "plate_code_en": "AA",
      "plate_code_ar": "أأ"
    },
    "attributes": {
      "country": "uae",
      "emirate": "abudhabi",
      "color": "red",
      "type": "private",
      "size": "long"
    }
  }
}