Language detection API/Library

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Is there a service/library (free or paid) that takes a piece of text and return the language of it?

I need to go over a million blog posts and determine their languages.

Did you look at https://github.com/shuyo/language-detection? — , Jun 14 '15 at 17:25
see answers to this question: http://stackoverflow.com/q/29290107/4588780 — Nikita Astrakhantsev, Jun 14 '15 at 18:52

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 14 '15 at 17:43

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I think this is the best out there!

https://code.google.com/p/language-detection/

answered Jun 14 '15 at 17:43

Josh Penn

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 29 '15 at 07:23

I've heard good things about langid.py.

Features from the README:

Fast

Pre-trained over a large number of languages (currently 97)

Not sensitive to domain-specific features (e.g. HTML/XML markup)

Single .py file with minimal dependencies

Deployable as a web service

https://github.com/saffsd/langid.py

Language detection API/Library

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