Required. Project or location to make a call. Must refer to a caller's project.
Format: projects/{project-number-or-id}/locations/{location-id} or projects/{project-number-or-id}.
For global calls, use projects/{project-number-or-id}/locations/global or projects/{project-number-or-id}.
Only models within the same region (has same location-id) can be used. Otherwise an INVALID_ARGUMENT (400) error is returned.
Request body
The request body contains data with the following structure:
JSON representation
{"model": string,"mimeType": string,"labels": {string: string,...},// Union field source can be only one of the following:"content": string// End of list of possible types for union field source.}
Fields
model
string
Optional. The language detection model to be used.
Only one language detection model is currently supported: projects/{project-number-or-id}/locations/{location-id}/models/language-detection/default.
If not specified, the default model is used.
Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource model:
cloudtranslate.languageDetectionModels.predict
mimeType
string
Optional. The format of the source text, for example, "text/html", "text/plain". If left blank, the MIME type defaults to "text/html".
labels
map (key: string, value: string)
Optional. The labels with user-defined metadata for the request.
Label keys and values can be no longer than 63 characters (Unicode codepoints), can only contain lowercase letters, numeric characters, underscores and dashes. International characters are allowed. Label values are optional. Label keys must start with a letter.
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-04-30 UTC."],[],[],null,["# Method: projects.detectLanguage\n\n- [HTTP request](#body.HTTP_TEMPLATE)\n- [Path parameters](#body.PATH_PARAMETERS)\n- [Request body](#body.request_body)\n - [JSON representation](#body.request_body.SCHEMA_REPRESENTATION)\n- [Response body](#body.response_body)\n- [Authorization scopes](#body.aspect)\n- [Try it!](#try-it)\n\nDetects the language of text within a request.\n\n### HTTP request\n\n`POST https://translate.googleapis.com/v3beta1/{parent=projects/*}:detectLanguage`\n\nThe URL uses [gRPC Transcoding](https://google.aip.dev/127) syntax.\n\n### Path parameters\n\n### Request body\n\nThe request body contains data with the following structure:\n\n### Response body\n\nIf successful, the response body contains an instance of [DetectLanguageResponse](/translate/docs/reference/rest/v3beta1/DetectLanguageResponse).\n\n### Authorization scopes\n\nRequires one of the following OAuth scopes:\n\n- `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-translation`\n- `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform`\n\nFor more information, see the [Authentication Overview](https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/)."]]