README.md

Language Detection API

This is a FastAPI application that provides language detection capabilities using Facebook's FastText model.

Features

• Language detection for 176 different languages
• High accuracy using FastText's pre-trained model (lid.176.bin)
• Simple REST API interface
• Docker containerized

API Endpoints

GET /

Health check endpoint that confirms the API is running.

POST /detect

Detects the language of the provided text.

Request body:

{
    "text": "Your text here"
}

Response:

{
    "language": "en",
    "confidence": 0.976
}

Technical Details

• Built with FastAPI and Python 3.9
• Uses FastText v0.9.2
• Containerized with Docker
• Hosted on Hugging Face Spaces