Function detectLanguageSample

translate/translate.js:17–44

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'use strict';

function detectLanguageSample(text) {
  // [START translate_detect_language]
  // Imports the Google Cloud client library
  const {Translate} = require('@google-cloud/translate').v2;

  // Creates a client
  const translate = new Translate();

  /**
   * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following line before running the sample.
   */
  // const text = 'The text for which to detect language, e.g. Hello, world!';

  // Detects the language. "text" can be a string for detecting the language of
  // a single piece of text, or an array of strings for detecting the languages
  // of multiple texts.
  async function detectLanguage() {
    let [detections] = await translate.detect(text);
    detections = Array.isArray(detections) ? detections : [detections];
    console.log('Detections:');
    detections.forEach(detection => {
      console.log(`${detection.input} => ${detection.language}`);
    });
  }

  detectLanguage();
  // [END translate_detect_language]
}

function listLanguagesSample() {
  // [START translate_list_codes]