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Language detection for Javascript. Originally based on async node cld (v2.4.7) library.
Synchronously Language detection for Javascript. Originally based on async node cld (https://github.com/dachev/node-cld) library.
$ npm install cld-sync
Linux users, make sure you have g++ >= 4.8. If this is not an option, you should be able to install node-cld 2.4.4 even with an older g++ build.
console.log( require('cld').detect('This is a language recognition example') );
var text = 'Това е пример за разпознаване на Български език';
var options = {
isHTML : false,
languageHint : 'BULGARIAN',
encodingHint : 'ISO_8859_5',
tldHint : 'bg',
httpHint : 'bg'
};
var cld = require('cld');
console.log( cld.detect(text, options) );
Set to true if the string contains HTML tags
Pass a LANGUAGES key or value as a hint
Pass an ENCODINGS value as a hint
Pass top level domain as a hint
Pass an HTTP "Content-Encoding" value as a hint
Once the module has been installed, the underlying C source will remain in the deps/cld
folder and continue to occupy considerable space. If you are under severe constraints you can delete this folder and reclam >100M
Copyright 2016, Ilya Yurchenko.
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FAQs
Language detection for Javascript. Originally based on async node cld (v2.4.7) library.
The npm package cld-sync receives a total of 4 weekly downloads. As such, cld-sync popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that cld-sync demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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