Auto detect source language

[ghost]

The api currently requests the source language. But it could be nice to have something like source=auto.

[pierotofy]

Yep. It's on the roadmap. Also related: argosopentech/argos-translate#9

Consider sponsoring @PJ-Finlay for this feature, or contribute a PR to Argos Translate. Once it's implemented there we can implement it here.

[vemonet]

Alternatively, it could be implemented with the langdetect library: https://pypi.org/project/langdetect/

from langdetect import detect
detect("War doesn't show who's right, just who's left.")
# Returns 'en'

Not sure how accurate it is though

[pierotofy]

Oh, interesting. We could add it via this library until support for (better?) detection is available in Argos Translate I suppose. Should be easy to swap it.

If anyone wants to beat me with a pull request for this one.. go for it :)

[vemonet]

#12 👀

[pierotofy]

This can be closed! Thanks for the PR @vemonet ! 🙏