Determining language

Determines the language the given text is written in.

Overview

The response is returned as a language code. You can determine the language name by its code using the Getting the list of supported languages operation with the ui parameter.

JSON and JSONP interfaces

The response is returned in JSON format. If the callback parameter is set, the JSON object is wrapped in a function. The function name is specified in this parameter (JSONP).

Request syntax

https://translate.yandex.net/api/v1.5/tr.json/detect
 ? [key=<API key>]
 & text=<text>
 & [hint=<list of likely text languages>]
 & [callback=<callback function name>]
key

API key.

text *

The text whose language you want to define.

Attention. For the source text, use the URL encoding.
hint

List of the most likely languages (they will be given preference when determining the text language). The list is separated with commas.

callbackName of the callback function. Used to get a JSONP response.
key

API key.

text *

The text whose language you want to define.

Attention. For the source text, use the URL encoding.
hint

List of the most likely languages (they will be given preference when determining the text language). The list is separated with commas.

callbackName of the callback function. Used to get a JSONP response.

* Required

Note. All special characters must be escaped.
Example request
POST /api/v1.5/tr.json/detect?hint=en,de&key=API-KEY HTTP/1.1
Host: translate.yandex.net
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 17
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

text=Hello World!
Example response
{
    "code": 200,
    "lang": "en"
}

XML interface

The response is returned in XML format.

Request syntax

https://translate.yandex.net/api/v1.5/tr/detect
 ? [key=<API key>]
 & text=<text>
 & [hint=<list of likely text languages>]
key

API key.

text *

The text whose language you want to define.

Attention. For the source text, use the URL encoding.
hint

List of the most likely languages (they will be given preference when determining the text language). The list is separated with commas.

key

API key.

text *

The text whose language you want to define.

Attention. For the source text, use the URL encoding.
hint

List of the most likely languages (they will be given preference when determining the text language). The list is separated with commas.

* Required

Note. All special characters must be escaped.
Example request
POST /api/v1.5/tr/detect?hint=en,de&key=API-KEY HTTP/1.1
Host: translate.yandex.net
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 17
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

text=Hello World!
Example response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 68
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=120
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:50:20 GMT

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<DetectedLang code="200" lang="en"/>

Response codes

Description of response codes.

Value Description
200

The operation was completed successfully
401

Invalid API key
402

The API key is blocked
404

The daily limit on the amount of translated text is exceeded
Value Description
200

The operation was completed successfully
401

Invalid API key
402

The API key is blocked
404

The daily limit on the amount of translated text is exceeded