A straight port of the CLD (Compact Language Detector) library embedded in Google's Chromium browser. The library detects the language from provided UTF8 text. It's implemented in C++, with very basic Node bindings.
A straight port of the CLD (Compact Language Detector) library embedded in Google's Chromium browser. The library detects the language from provided Javascript string. It's implemented in C++, with very basic Node bindings. Original work by Mike McCandless
$ npm install cld
var cld = require('cld');
cld.detect(text);
Copyright 2011, Blagovest Dachev.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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Language detection for Javascript. Based on the CLD2 (Compact Language Detector) library from Google. Highly optimized for space and speed. Runs about 10x faster than other libraries. Detects over 160 languages. Full test coverage. Runs on Linux, OS X, an
The npm package cld receives a total of 10,055 weekly downloads. As such, cld popularity was classified as popular.
We found that cld demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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