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markdown-url: https://dev.sighthound.com/index.md
title: "Sighthound Developer Portal"
description: "Explore Sighthound APIs, deployment guides, and examples for vehicle analytics, video redaction, and SIO."
content-type: text/markdown
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> For AI agents: a documentation index is available at [llms.txt](https://dev.sighthound.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions are available at matching `.md` URLs.

<div class="portal-home">
    <section class="portal-hero" aria-labelledby="portal-title">
        <h1 id="portal-title">Build with Sighthound computer vision APIs</h1>
        <p class="portal-lede">Start with hosted APIs, self-hosted Docker deployments, or SIO pipelines for vehicle analytics, redaction, and real-time video processing.</p>
        <div class="portal-hero-actions" aria-label="Primary developer paths">
            [Start with Vehicle Analytics](./vehicle-analytics/rest-api/quickstart/docker/)
            [Explore Redactor API](./redactor/overview/)
            [View SIO examples](./sio/examples/VehicleAnalytics/)
        </div>
    </section>
    <section class="portal-section" aria-labelledby="quickstart-title">
        <div class="portal-section-header">
            <h2 id="quickstart-title">Choose the fastest path for your project</h2>
            <p>Pick the deployment path that matches what you are trying to build today.</p>
        </div>
        <div class="portal-card-grid portal-card-grid--paths">
            [Hosted preview
                    
                        
                    
                
                Try an API without local setup
                Evaluate Vehicle Analytics in the browser before installing anything.
                Open hosted preview](./vehicle-analytics/rest-api/quickstart/hosted/)
            [Self-hosted Docker
                    
                        
                    
                
                Run locally or in your environment
                Start the REST gateway, analytics service, and demo UI with Docker Compose.
                Run Docker quickstart](./vehicle-analytics/rest-api/quickstart/docker/)
            [Real-time video
                    
                        
                    
                
                Process video and RTSP streams
                Use SIO examples for live video analytics, RTSP streams, and reusable pipelines.
                View SIO examples](./sio/examples/VehicleAnalytics/)
            [Agent handoff
                    
                        
                    
                
                Set up Redactor with an AI agent
                Let an AI agent follow the verified Redactor setup path with toolkit context and API docs.
                Open Agent Toolkit](./redactor/reference/agent-toolkit/)
        </div>
    </section>
    <section class="portal-section" aria-labelledby="products-title">
        <div class="portal-section-header">
            <h2 id="products-title">Find the right API or platform surface</h2>
        </div>
        <div class="portal-card-grid portal-card-grid--products" aria-label="Developer portal products">
            [Vehicle Analytics
                Detect plates, vehicles, make, model, color, and region data from images.
                Explore Vehicle Analytics](./vehicle-analytics/rest-api/quickstart/docker/)
            [Redactor
                Redact heads, license plates, screens, audio, and sensitive content across media workflows.
                Explore Redactor](./redactor/overview/)
            [SIO
                Build real-time analytics pipelines for video, RTSP streams, and reusable vision blocks.
                Explore SIO](./sio/)
        </div>
    </section>
    <section class="portal-section portal-section--split" aria-labelledby="tasks-title">
        <div class="portal-section-header portal-section-header--compact">
            <h2 id="tasks-title">Common developer tasks</h2>
            <p>Quick links for setup, examples, and references.</p>
        </div>
        <div class="portal-task-grid" aria-label="Common developer tasks">
            [Run Vehicle Analytics with Docker
                Quickstart](./vehicle-analytics/rest-api/quickstart/docker/)
            [Try the hosted Vehicle Analytics preview
                Preview](./vehicle-analytics/rest-api/quickstart/hosted/)
            [Process an RTSP stream with SIO
                Example](./sio/examples/VehicleAnalytics/)
            [Start with Redactor API basics
                API basics](./redactor/examples/api-basics/)
            [Embed the Redactor UI
                Guide](./redactor/examples/embedded-ui/)
            [Set up Redactor with the Agent Toolkit
                Agent toolkit](./redactor/reference/agent-toolkit/)
        </div>
    </section>
    <section class="portal-section portal-code-preview" aria-labelledby="first-request-title">
        <div class="portal-code-preview__copy">
            <h2 id="first-request-title">Send an image to the REST API</h2>
            <p class="portal-code-preview__lede">Spin up the local Docker quickstart, point the API at an image, and see structured vehicle analytics results come back from the REST gateway.</p>
            <ol class="portal-code-preview__steps" aria-label="REST API first request steps">
                <li>
                    <span class="portal-code-preview__step-index">1</span>
                    <span>Start the Docker quickstart</span>
                </li>
                <li>
                    <span class="portal-code-preview__step-index">2</span>
                    <span>Send an image annotation request</span>
                </li>
                <li>
                    <span class="portal-code-preview__step-index">3</span>
                    <span>Inspect the JSON response</span>
                </li>
            </ol>
        </div>
        <div class="portal-code-preview__demo">
            <div class="portal-code-card portal-code-card--console" markdown>
<div class="portal-code-card__bar">
    <span class="portal-code-card__label">REST API</span>
    <code>POST /v11/images:annotate</code>
</div>

```bash
curl -X POST http://localhost:8383/v11/images:annotate \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data @request.json
```
            </div>
            <div class="portal-doc-actions portal-doc-actions--under-code">
                [Open Vehicle Analytics quickstart](./vehicle-analytics/rest-api/quickstart/docker/)
                [See Redactor API basics](./redactor/examples/api-basics/)
            </div>
        </div>
    </section>
</div>

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