language-api

HTTP API server to detect language used in provided text.

Uses lingua-rs.

Usage

Loading language models take a long time, so be sure to use --release when building.

cargo run --features=build-binary --release
./target/release/language-api

This also includes a Rust API wrapper to not have to manually create HTTP requests.

language-api = { git = "https://github.com/sushiibot/language-api" }

Configuration

Configuration options can be set in the environment or in an .env file.

The languages option is required, to determine which languages to detect. This must be a comma separated list of languages enclosed in quotes. If no quotes are provided, then they must not have spaces in between.

Example .env file shown below:

# Optional, if you want it to listen on a different interface or port
LISTEN_ADDR=0.0.0.0:8080

LANGUAGES="english, japanese, chinese, french, turkish"
# Or without quotes, must have no spaces
LANGUAGES=english,japanese,chinese,french,turkish

# Optional, must be between 0.0 and 0.99
MINIMUM_RELATIVE_DISTANCE=0.2

Examples

$ curl -X POST -d "bisous et l'étreinte" http://0.0.0.0:8080/confidence
[["FRENCH",1.0],["SPANISH",0.7892397691434101],["ENGLISH",0.7444484822969599],["TURKISH",0.6363320008471676]]

$ curl -X POST -d "안녕하세요" http://0.0.0.0:8080/detect
"KOREAN"