Efficient language detector (Nito-ELD or ELD) is a fast and accurate language detector, is one of the fastest non compiled detectors, while its accuracy is within the range of the heaviest and slowest detectors.
It's 100% Javascript (vanilla), easy installation and no dependencies.
ELD is also available in Python and PHP.
- For Node.js
$ npm install @nyby/eldimport {eld} from '@nyby/eld';detect() expects a UTF-8 string, and returns an object, with a 'language' variable, with a ISO 639-1 code or empty string
console.log( eld.detect('Hola, cómo te llamas?') )
// { language: 'es', getScores(): {'es': 0.5, 'et': 0.2}, isReliable(): true }
// returns { language: string, getScores(): Object, isReliable(): boolean }
console.log( eld.detect('Hola, cómo te llamas?').language )
// 'es'- Also, we can get the current status of eld: languages, database type
console.log( eld.info() )These are the ISO 639-1 codes of the 60 supported languages for Nito-ELD v1
'am', 'ar', 'az', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'gu', 'he', 'hi', 'hr', 'hu', 'hy', 'is', 'it', 'ja', 'ka', 'kn', 'ko', 'ku', 'lo', 'lt', 'lv', 'ml', 'mr', 'ms', 'nl', 'no', 'or', 'pa', 'pl', 'pt', 'ro', 'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'ta', 'te', 'th', 'tl', 'tr', 'uk', 'ur', 'vi', 'yo', 'zh'
Full name languages:
Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani (Latin), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Bengali, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish (Arabic), Lao, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay (Latin), Dutch, Norwegian, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Albanian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yoruba, Chinese