Language detection

Detects the language of the source text. The response is returned as the language code.

Request

POST https://translate.api.cloud.yandex.net/translate/v1/detect

Parameters in the request body

All parameters must be URL-encoded. The maximum size of the POST request body is 30 KB.

Parameter	Description
text	Required parameter. UTF-8 encoded text to detect the language of.
hint	List of most probable languages (they will be given priority when detecting the language). The list items are comma-separated.
folderId	Required parameter. ID of your folder. Learn more about how to find out the folder ID.

Response

The response is returned in JSON format.

{
    "language": <code of the language the text is in>
}

Examples

Sample request

export FOLDER_ID=<folder id>
export TOKEN=<IAM-token>
curl -X POST \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
     -d "folderId=${FOLDER_ID}" \
     --data-urlencode "text=Hello world" \
     "https://translate.api.cloud.yandex.net/translate/v1/detect"

Response example

The response is returned in JSON format.

{
    "language": "en"
}