Detecting language

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Yandex.Cloud

Request
- Parameters in the request body
Response
Examples
- Sample request
- Response example

Warning

Support for v1 is discontinued as of February 2019. The methods listed below will be deprecated. Please use v2.

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"
}