@types/accept-language-parser

What is @types/accept-language-parser?

@types/accept-language-parser provides TypeScript type definitions for the accept-language-parser package, which is used to parse the Accept-Language header from HTTP requests. This package helps in determining the preferred languages of a user based on their browser settings.

What are @types/accept-language-parser's main functionalities?

Parse Accept-Language Header

This feature allows you to parse the Accept-Language header from an HTTP request. The code sample demonstrates how to parse a given Accept-Language header string and output the parsed languages.

const acceptLanguageParser = require('accept-language-parser');
const header = 'en-GB,en;q=0.8,fr;q=0.7';
const languages = acceptLanguageParser.parse(header);
console.log(languages);

Get Best Match

This feature allows you to determine the best match from a list of supported languages based on the Accept-Language header. The code sample shows how to find the best match from a list of supported languages.

const acceptLanguageParser = require('accept-language-parser');
const header = 'en-GB,en;q=0.8,fr;q=0.7';
const supportedLanguages = ['en', 'fr'];
const bestMatch = acceptLanguageParser.pick(supportedLanguages, header);
console.log(bestMatch);

Other packages similar to @types/accept-language-parser

negotiator

The negotiator package provides content negotiation utilities for HTTP servers. It can parse Accept, Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, and Accept-Language headers. Compared to accept-language-parser, negotiator offers a broader range of content negotiation features.

locale

The locale package is used to determine the user's locale based on the Accept-Language header. It provides similar functionality to accept-language-parser but focuses more on locale determination rather than just language parsing.

README

Installation

npm install --save @types/accept-language-parser

Summary

This package contains type definitions for accept-language-parser (https://github.com/opentable/accept-language-parser).

Details

Files were exported from https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/types/accept-language-parser.

index.d.ts

// https://github.com/opentable/accept-language-parser/blob/v1.5.0/index.js

export function parse(acceptLanguage?: string): Language[];
export function pick<T extends string>(
    supportedLanguages: T[],
    acceptLanguage: string | Language[],
    options?: PickOptions,
): T | null;

export interface Language {
    code: string;
    script?: string | null | undefined;
    region?: string | undefined;
    quality: number;
}

export interface PickOptions {
    loose?: boolean | undefined;
}

Additional Details

• Last updated: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:03:48 GMT
• Dependencies: none

Credits

These definitions were written by Wooram Jun.