Simple and Performant Language detection library (pure JS and zero dependencies)
npm install tinyld
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Tiny Language Detector, simply detect the language of a unicode UTF-8 text:
- Pure JS, No api call, No dependencies (Node and Browser compatible)
- Blazing fast and low memory footprint (unlike ML methods)
- Train with dataset from Tatoeba and UDHR
- Support 62 languages (24 for the web version)
- Reliable even for really short texts (chatbot, keywords, ...)
- Support both ISO-639-1 & ISO-639-2
- Available for NodeJS (CommonJS and ESM), Deno and Browser
- Playground - Try the library
- Play with some code
- Getting Started
- Supported Languages
- Algorithm
- Frequently Asked Questions
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``sh`
yarn add tinyld # or npm install --save tinyld
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`js
import { detect, detectAll } from 'tinyld'
// Detect
detect('これは日本語です.') // ja
detect('and this is english.') // en
// DetectAll
detectAll('ceci est un text en francais.')
// [ { lang: 'fr', accuracy: 0.5238 }, { lang: 'ro', accuracy: 0.3802 }, ... ]
`
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`bash``
tinyld This is the text that I want to check[ { lang: 'en', accuracy: 1 } ]
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> Better, Faster, Smaller
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You want to Contribute or Open a PR, it's recommend to take a look at the dev documentation