DetectLanguage Detection API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: DetectLanguage Account Detection API
  description: DetectLanguage is a language detection REST API that analyzes text samples and returns the identified language along with a confidence score. Supporting 216 languages, the API enables developers to identify languages from brief phrases to full documents, with batch processing support for multiple texts in a single request.
  version: '3'
  termsOfService: https://detectlanguage.com/terms
  contact:
    url: https://detectlanguage.com/contact
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://detectlanguage.com/terms
servers:
- url: https://ws.detectlanguage.com/v3
  description: DetectLanguage API v3
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Detection
  description: Language detection endpoints for single and batch text analysis.
paths:
  /detect:
    post:
      operationId: detectLanguage
      summary: Detect language of a single text
      description: Analyzes a single text string and returns an array of language candidates with language codes and confidence scores. Higher score means higher detection confidence (0 to 1 range).
      tags:
      - Detection
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/DetectRequest'
            examples:
              english:
                summary: English text detection
                value:
                  q: Hello world
              italian:
                summary: Italian text detection
                value:
                  q: Dolce far niente
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/DetectRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Array of language detection candidates with scores.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/LanguageCandidate'
              examples:
                english_result:
                  summary: English detection result
                  value:
                  - language: en
                    score: 0.9098
                italian_result:
                  summary: Italian detection result
                  value:
                  - language: it
                    score: 0.5074
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized — invalid or missing API key.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
        '422':
          description: Unprocessable Entity — missing or invalid request parameters.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
  /detect-batch:
    post:
      operationId: detectLanguageBatch
      summary: Detect language of multiple texts in one request
      description: Analyzes multiple text strings in a single API call and returns an array of arrays, each containing language candidates for the corresponding input text. Batch detections are counted as separate requests (e.g., 3 texts = 3 requests toward your quota).
      tags:
      - Detection
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/DetectBatchRequest'
            examples:
              batch_example:
                summary: Batch language detection example
                value:
                  q:
                  - Hello world
                  - Dolce far niente
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/DetectBatchRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Array of arrays of language detection candidates, one array per input text, in the same order as the input.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/LanguageCandidate'
              examples:
                batch_result:
                  summary: Batch detection result
                  value:
                  - - language: en
                      score: 0.9098
                  - - language: it
                      score: 0.5074
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized — invalid or missing API key.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
        '422':
          description: Unprocessable Entity — missing or invalid request parameters.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
components:
  schemas:
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      description: Error response returned when a request fails.
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: Error message describing what went wrong.
          example: Unauthorized
    DetectBatchRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - q
      properties:
        q:
          type: array
          description: Array of texts to detect languages for. Each element must be a valid UTF-8 encoded string. Mandatory.
          items:
            type: string
          example:
          - Hello world
          - Dolce far niente
    DetectRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - q
      properties:
        q:
          type: string
          description: Text to detect the language of. Must be a valid UTF-8 encoded string. Mandatory.
          example: Hello world
    LanguageCandidate:
      type: object
      description: A detected language candidate with a BCP-47 language code and a confidence score between 0 and 1. Higher score indicates higher detection accuracy.
      properties:
        language:
          type: string
          description: BCP-47 language code (e.g., "en", "it", "zh").
          example: en
        score:
          type: number
          format: float
          minimum: 0
          maximum: 1
          description: Detection confidence score between 0 and 1. Higher values indicate higher confidence.
          example: 0.9098
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 'Pass your API key in the Authorization header as a Bearer token. Example: Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'