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POST
text.language.detect

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

API key: sk_live_…

Headers

Idempotency-Key
string

Optional. A retry with the same key returns the stored result.

Maximum string length: 255
Pramaan-Max-Price-Micro
string

Optional. The most this request may be priced at, in micro-USD (a whole number above 0). It replaces the capability's own price ceiling for this request, lower or higher. Sources that could cost more are left out; when none is left the answer is 400 with the lowest limit that would work.

Pattern: ^[1-9]\d{0,14}$

Body

application/json
text
string
required

The text whose language to identify, at most 5,000 characters.

Required string length: 1 - 5000

Response

The result

language
any
required

Best-matching language for the text, lower-case BCP 47.

confidence
number

Probability from 0 to 1 that this is the right language, as reported by the serving source; absent when it reports none.

Required range: 0 <= x <= 1
alternatives
object[]

Next-best language guesses with their probabilities, best first.