Language Detector

AI Tools Text Processing Credits / request: 1

Detects the language of the given text.

POST https://api.apikodu.com/api/v1/languagedetector

Documentation

Overview

Detects the language of a text.

Authentication

Every request requires the x-api-key header. Credits used and remaining quota are returned in response headers (x-api-credits-used, x-api-remaining-credits, x-rate-limit-*).

Request

POST https://api.apikodu.com/api/v1/languagedetector

JSON body.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Default	Options	Description
`text`	string	* Required	—	—	Text.

Response

Name	Type	Description
`languageCode`	string	Detected ISO 639 language code (tr, en, de ...).
`confidence`	number	Confidence 0–1. Closer to 1 means more certain.

Errors

HTTP	code	Description
`400`	`-219`	text is empty or longer than 500 characters.
`500`	`-220`	Google API access token could not be obtained.
`401`	`-100`	x-api-key is missing, empty, malformed, inactive, banned, expired, IP-restricted, or not allowed for this API.
`429`	`-221`	Per-minute request limit exceeded. Response headers: x-rate-limit-limit, x-rate-limit-remaining, x-rate-limit-reset.
`429`	—	Package credit quota cannot cover this request. Body may be { error, limit, currentUsage, requestCost } (no code field).
`500`	`-1`	Unexpected server error. message is a generic error text without technical details.

Notes

Success body is { data: { ... } }. Error body is { code, message }. code is an ApiResponseCode enum value (negative integer).

Sample response

{
  "data": {
    "languageCode": "tr",
    "confidence": 0.98
  }
}

Code samples

  
      const response = await fetch('https://api.apikodu.com/api/v1/languagedetector', {
        method: 'POST',
        headers: {
          'Content-Type': 'application/json',
          'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'
        },
        body: JSON.stringify({
          name: 'example',
          value: 123
        })
      });

      const data = await response.json();
      console.log(data);

  
      import requests

      headers = {
          'Content-Type': 'application/json',
          'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'
      }

      payload = {
          'name': 'example',
          'value': 123
      }

      response = requests.post('https://api.apikodu.com/api/v1/languagedetector', headers=headers, json=payload)
      data = response.json()
      print(data)

  
      using var client = new HttpClient();
      client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY");

      var payload = new { name = "example", value = 123 };
      var json = JsonSerializer.Serialize(payload);
      var content = new StringContent(json, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");

      var response = await client.PostAsync("https://api.apikodu.com/api/v1/languagedetector", content);
      response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();

      var data = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
      Console.WriteLine(data);

 
     $data = [
         'name' => 'example',
         'value' => 123
     ];

     $response = file_get_contents('https://api.apikodu.com/api/v1/languagedetector', false, stream_context_create([
         'http' => [
             'header' => "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"
         ],
         'method'  => 'POST',"
         'content' => json_encode($data)
      ]));

      print_r(json_decode($response, true));

  
      curl -X POST 'https://api.apikodu.com/api/v1/languagedetector' \
        -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
        -H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
        -d '{
          "name": "example",
          "value": 123
        }'

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