JavaScript: Detect Text Language With Google Translate Api (Node.js)

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Creating service accounts and keys (not necessary if you are using google clouds function)
Enable Cloud Translation API

Install

npm install --save @google-cloud/translate

Code

const {Translate} = require('@google-cloud/translate').v2;const translate = new Translate();// text could be string or array of stringasync function detectLanguageGoogle(text) {  let [detections] = await translate.detect(text);  // enable this following code to always return array  // detections = Array.isArray(detections) ? detections : [detections];  return detections}

Test

const result = await detectLanguageGoogle('What do we know so far about the Covid-19 variants?')

{  "confidence": 1,  "language": "en",  "input": "What do we know so far about the Covid-19 variants?"},

Test 2

const values = [  'What do we know so far about the Covid-19 variants?',        // English  "Que savons-nous jusqu'à présent des variantes du Covid-19?", // French  "Was wissen wir bisher über die Covid-19-Varianten?",         // German  "¿Qué sabemos hasta ahora sobre las variantes de Covid-19?",  // Spanish  "Apa yang kita ketahui sejauh ini tentang varian Covid-19?",  // Indonesian  "到目前为止，我们对Covid-19变体了解多少？",                        // Chinese Simplified  "到目前為止，我們對Covid-19變體了解多少？",                        // Chinese Traditional   "Covid-19バリアントについてこれまでに何を知っていますか？",           // Japanese  "हम कोविड -19 वेरिएंट के बारे में अब तक क्या जानते हैं?",                   // Hindi  "ما الذي نعرفه حتى الآن عن بدائل Covid-19؟",                  // Arabic  "Что мы знаем о вариантах Covid-19?"                          // Russian]const results = await detectLanguageGoogle(values)

[  {    "confidence": 1,    "language": "en",    "input": "What do we know so far about the Covid-19 variants?"  },  {    "language": "fr",    "confidence": 1,    "input": "Que savons-nous jusqu'à présent des variantes du Covid-19?"  },  {    "language": "de",    "confidence": 1,    "input": "Was wissen wir bisher über die Covid-19-Varianten?"  },  {    "language": "es",    "confidence": 1,    "input": "¿Qué sabemos hasta ahora sobre las variantes de Covid-19?"  },  {    "language": "id",    "confidence": 0.8346776366233826,    "input": "Apa yang kita ketahui sejauh ini tentang varian Covid-19?"  },  {    "confidence": 1,    "language": "zh-CN",    "input": "到目前为止，我们对Covid-19变体了解多少？"  },  {    "confidence": 1,    "language": "zh-TW",    "input": "到目前為止，我們對Covid-19變體了解多少？"  },  {    "language": "ja",    "confidence": 1,    "input": "Covid-19バリアントについてこれまでに何を知っていますか？"  },  {    "language": "hi",    "confidence": 1,    "input": "हम कोविड -19 वेरिएंट के बारे में अब तक क्या जानते हैं?"  },  {    "language": "ar",    "confidence": 1,    "input": "ما الذي نعرفه حتى الآن عن بدائل Covid-19؟"  },  {    "confidence": 1,    "language": "ru",    "input": "Что мы знаем о вариантах Covid-19?"  }]

Pricing

First 500,000 characters* per month is free ($10 monthly credit)
$20‡ per million characters (up to 1 billion characters)