---
title: "Detect the language"
method: GET
path: "/v1/text/language"
tags: ["Text tools"]
---

# Detect the language

`GET /v1/text/language`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.dharun.dev`
- URL: `https://api.dharun.dev/v1/text/language`
- Auth: none declared

Language and script, with a confidence. Covers about 80 languages including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia and Urdu. Romanised Indian text (Hinglish, Tanglish) is flagged as such.

## Query parameters

- `text` string

## Response `200`

Success

- Envelope
  - `data` unknown, required
  - `meta` object, required
    - `limit` integer
    - `note` string
    - `offset` integer
    - `source` object: Where the data came from and the credit its licence asks for.
      - `attribution` string
      - `licence` string
      - `name` string
      - `retrieved` string
      - `url` string
      - `version` string
    - `total` integer

## Other responses

- `400`: Error
- `404`: Error
- `429`: Error

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