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:
```json
{
    "text": "Your text here"
}
```

Response:
```json
{
    "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