How to detect the language of a string in Javascript

Implementation of language detection can provide a great many benefits, allowing you to gather user data, apply translation software, and more. This is normally a very difficult thing to set up, but that is not true today. No, today we will be setting it all up in just a matter of minutes, just watch.

We begin by setting up our API client via this script tag here:

<script src="https://cdn.cloudmersive.com/jsclient/cloudmersive-nlp-client.js"></script>

Once the Natural Language Processing client has finished importing, we can then call languageDetectionGetLanguage, as you see here:

var CloudmersiveNlpApiClient = require('cloudmersive-nlp-api-client');
var defaultClient = CloudmersiveNlpApiClient.ApiClient.instance;
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
var Apikey = defaultClient.authentications['Apikey'];
Apikey.apiKey = 'YOUR API KEY';
// Uncomment the following line to set a prefix for the API key, e.g. "Token" (defaults to null)
//Apikey.apiKeyPrefix = 'Token';
var apiInstance = new CloudmersiveNlpApiClient.LanguageDetectionApi();
var input = new CloudmersiveNlpApiClient.LanguageDetectionRequest(); // LanguageDetectionRequest |
var callback = function(error, data, response) {
if (error) {
console.error(error);
} else {
console.log('API called successfully. Returned data: ' + data);
}
};
apiInstance.languageDetectionGetLanguage(input, callback);

And that’s a wrap. Our API will respond with the language of the input string, easy.