Welcome to CROSS Rest Services

Language Guesser

Web service to guess the language of a text passage. Using this language detection library.

Usage

Make a POST request to /guess-lang.

Provide the following parameters:

• languages: List of languages to check against. (optional)
• text: The text to check (required)

You may send the parameters as JSON. You must set the Content-Type header to 'application/json' then.

{
    "languages": ["de", "en"],
    "text": "I want to know, what language this is in."
}

The API returns a JSON result like

{
    "language": "en",
    "result": {
        "en": 0.4596092685143117,
        "de": 0.328759654702408
    },
    "input": {
        "languages": [
            "de",
           "en"
        ],
        "text": "I want to know what language this is."
   }
}

Errors

Errors are represented by a JSON object.

{
    "status": "failure",
    "reason": "invalid input",
    "details": {
        "languages": {
            "notInArray": "Unsupported language: ens"
        }
    }
}