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. For more information about how to find out the folder ID, see the section Authorization in the API.

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=привет мир" \
     "https://translate.api.cloud.yandex.net/translate/v1/detect"

Response example

The response is returned in JSON format.

{
    "language": "ru"
}