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Translate Auto Detect

Example of translating text to German with automatic source language detection

TranslationMachine TranslationNatural Language ProcessingOpen SourceSelf-Hosted

Translate Auto Detect is an example object payload from LibreTranslate, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

titledescriptionrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "title": "Translate Text with Auto Source Detection",
  "description": "Example of translating text to German with automatic source language detection",
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "url": "https://libretranslate.com/translate",
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    },
    "body": {
      "q": "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog",
      "source": "auto",
      "target": "de",
      "format": "text",
      "api_key": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "translatedText": "Der schnelle braune Fuchs springt über den faulen Hund",
      "detectedLanguage": {
        "language": "en",
        "confidence": 100.0
      }
    }
  }
}