Request

Requests are made using GET or POST data submissions to the API entry point. Typically, a POST method is recommended in order to overcome the parameter maximum length limit associated to the GET method.

Request

Endpoint

This is the endpoint to access the API.

Service	Method	Url
Language Identification	POST	https://api.meaningcloud.com/lang-2.0	Console

If you are working with an on-premises installation, you will need to substitute api.meaningcloud.com by your own server address.

Parameters

These are the supported parameters.

Name	Description	Values	Default
`key`	Authorization key required for making requests to any of our web services.		Required
`of`	Output format	json (JSON format) xml (XML format)	Default: `json`
`txt`	Input text (using UTF-8 encoding).		Required
`url`	URL of the content to analyze. Currently only non-authenticated HTTP and FTP are supported.		Required
`doc`	Input file with the content to analyze.		Required
`selection`	List of expected languages, separated by \|.
`threshold`	Language detection threshold as a percentage of similarity with respect to the top result		Default: `100`
`verbose`	When active, it shows additional information about the languages detected.	y (Enabled) n (Disabled)	Default: `n`

Important

The fields txt, doc and url are mutually exclusive; in other words, at least one of them must not be empty (a content parameter is required), and in cases where more than one of them has a value assigned, only one will be processed. The precedence order is txt, url and doc.