detect_language

Detect Language API Client

Detects language of given text. Returns detected language codes and scores.

Before using Detect Language API client you have to setup your personal API key. You can get it by signing up at https://detectlanguage.com

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'detect_language'

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install detect_language

Configuration

If you are using Rails, create initializer config/initializers/detect_language.rb and add following code there. Otherwise just integrate following code into your apps configuration.

DetectLanguage.configure do |config|
  config.api_key = "YOUR API KEY"

  # enable secure mode (SSL) if you are passing sensitive data
  # config.secure = true
end

Usage

Language detection

DetectLanguage.detect("Buenos dias señor")

Result

[ {"language"=>"es", "isReliable"=>false, "confidence"=>0.3271028037383178},
  {"language"=>"pt", "isReliable"=>false, "confidence"=>0.08356545961002786} ]

Simple language detection

If you need just a language code you can use simple_detect. It returns just the language code.

DetectLanguage.simple_detect("Buenos dias señor")

Result

"es"

Batch detection

It is possible to detect language of several texts with one request. This method is significantly faster than doing one request per text. To use batch detection just pass array of texts to detect method.

DetectLanguage.detect(["Buenos dias señor", "Labas rytas"])

Result

Result is array of detections in the same order as the texts were passed.

[ [ {"language"=>"es", "isReliable"=>false, "confidence"=>0.3271028037383178},
    {"language"=>"pt", "isReliable"=>false, "confidence"=>0.08356545961002786} ],
  [ {"language"=>"lt", "isReliable"=>false, "confidence"=>0.04918032786885246},
    {"language"=>"lv", "isReliable"=>false, "confidence"=>0.03350083752093803} ] ]

Getting your account status

DetectLanguage.user_status

Result

{"date"=>"2013-11-17", "requests"=>95, "bytes"=>2223, "plan"=>"FREE", "plan_expires"=>nil,
 "daily_requests_limit"=>5000, "daily_bytes_limit"=>1048576, "status"=>"ACTIVE"}

Getting list detectable languages

DetectLanguage.languages

Result

Array of language codes and names.

License

Detect Language API Client is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the MIT-LICENSE file.