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# | Parameter | Possible values | Default value | Description |
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1 | text |
| A piece of text which will be sent for language detection. | |
2 | customerid |
| A special service ID value (activation key) that has to be passed to a request query. It's obtained upon subscription to the Cloud services (paid or trial). | |
3 | format |
| json | The response format for output data. |
Response structure
# | Name | Description |
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1 | LangShortCode | A language short code. |
2 | LangName | A full name of a detected language. |
3 | Proportion | The proportion ration of the detected language in the text. |
Example 1.1
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http(s)://svc.webspellchecker.net/api?cmd=detect_language&text=this sampl text demonstrates the work of the Web API service.&customerid=[your-service-id] |
Parameters:
Command: detect_language
Text: this sampl text demonstrates the work of the Web API service.
Request response:
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{
"LangShortCode": "en_US",
"LangName": "American English",
"Proportion": 0.98
} |
The detect_language command is available since the release of WebSpellChecker v5.5.8 in March 2020. It detects the language(s) of a given text. This functionality is built on top of the Compact Language Detector 2 (CLD2) library. It can detect over 80 languages.
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Command name: detect_language |