Compact Language Detector 3 API

This is a very simple web service API for exposing Google Compact Language Detector 3 (CDL3) library (https://github.com/Google/cld3) via a REST / JSON web api.

It uses a Python wrapper for CDL3 available here: https://github.com/Elizafox/cld3 (in fact a slightly changed version forked by me here: https://github.com/houp/cld3).

The service is implemented using Python3 and Flask and hosted in a Docker image.

How to run with Docker

To build and run the docker image do:

git clone https://github.com/houp/cld3-service.git
cd cld3-service
docker build -t cld .
docker run -d -p 1337:80 cld

This will open port 1337 on your local machine with access to the service.

How to run standalone

You need to have Python3 with following libraries: Cython, protobuf, flask. Assuming you have pip installed you can grab these dependencies via:

pip3 install Cython flask protobuf

Now all you need to do is to edit app.py file and find this line:

app.run()

and change it to:

app.run(host='0.0.0.0',port=1337)

And finally start app.py with python. The service will start on port 1337 on all of your network interfaces.

How to use the API

The only method available is to send a POST request to /detect endpoint with JSON body of the form:

{"sentence": "Ich habe keine problem."}

The correct output is in JSON format and looks something like this:

{
    "is_reliable": true,
    "lang": "de",
    "probability": 0.9999370574951172
}

The corresponding test curl command for this request is:

    curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --request POST \
  --data '{"sentence":"Ich habe keine problem."}' \
  http://localhost:1337/detect

Note that the service DOES NOT handle errors nicely.