linguin

Linguin AI Ruby wrapper

This is a Ruby wrapper for the Linguin AI API (see API docs) providing Language and Profanity Detection as a Service.

Linguin AI is free for up to 100 detections per day. You can get your API key here.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "linguin"

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install linguin

Usage

Use the Linguin singleton to get started with just a few lines of code:

require "linguin"

Linguin.api_key = "YOUR-API-KEY" # goto https://linguin.ai to get your key

response = Linguin.detect_language("test")
response.success? # => true
response.results  # => [{ lang: "en", confidence: 0.97 }, ...]

response = Linguin.detect_profanity("you are a moron")
response.success? # => true
response.score    # => 0.998

If something goes wrong (here: empty text):

response = Linguin.detect_language("")
response.success? # => false
response.error
# => { code: 400, message: "The language of an empty text is more of a philosophical question." }

# if you prefer to handle exceptions instead you can use `#detect_language!`:
response = Linguin.detect_language!("")
# => raises Linguin::InputError

See the list of all exceptions here.

Bulk detection

To detect the language of multiple texts with one API call, you can pass them as an array. The results will be returned in the same order as the texts. All texts have to not be empty. Using detect_language! will result in an exception as for single detections.

The same is true for profanity detection: calling detect_profanity! with empty texts will result in an exception as for single detections.

response = Linguin.detect_language(["test", "bahnhof", "12341234"])
response.results
# => [ [{ lang: "en", confidence: 0.97 }, ...], [{ ... }], [] ]

response = Linguin.detect_profanity(["a test", "you are a moron"])
response.scores
# => [0.0124, 0.9981]

response = Linguin.detect_language(["test", ""])
response.success? # => false
response.error
# => { code: 400, message: "At least one of the texts provided was empty." }

Linguin.detect_language!(["test", ""])
# => raises Linguin::InputError

Account status

You can fetch the status of your account:

status = Linguin.status
status.detections_today # => 4_500
status.daily_limit      # => 50_000 or nil for no limit
status.remaining_today  # => 45_500 or Float::INFINITY for unlimited

Language list

You can fetch the list of supported languages:

languages = Linguin.languages
# => { de: ["German", "Deutsch"], ... }

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/LinguinAI/linguin-ruby. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the Linguin project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.