API- dokumintaasje
Integrearje krêftige oersetting yn jo applikaasjes mei ús ienfâldige REST API.
Begjinne
The TranslateAPI provides a simple REST interface for translating text between 180+ languages. All API endpoints return JSON responses.
1. Get Your API Key
Create a free account and generate your API key from the dashboard:
- Sign up at translateapi.ai/signup
- Go to DashboardComment → API- kaaien
- Click "Create API Key" and copy your key
API keys start with ta_ followed by 56 hex characters.
https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/2. Make Your First Request
Replace YOUR_API_KEY with the key from your dashboard:
curl -X POST https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/ \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"text": "Hello, world!",
"target_language": "es"
}'
import requests
response = requests.post(
"https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/",
headers={
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
},
json={
"text": "Hello, world!",
"target_language": "es"
}
)
result = response.json()
print(result["translated_text"]) # "Hola, mundo!"
const response = await fetch("https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
},
body: JSON.stringify({
text: "Hello, world!",
target_language: "es"
})
});
const result = await response.json();
console.log(result.translated_text); // "Hola, mundo!"
$ch = curl_init("https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/");
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
"text" => "Hello, world!",
"target_language" => "es"
])
]);
$result = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
echo $result["translated_text"]; // "Hola, mundo!"
payload := strings.NewReader(`{
"text": "Hello, world!",
"target_language": "es"
}`)
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/", payload)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY")
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
resp, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer resp.Body.Close()
var result map[string]interface{}
json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&result)
fmt.Println(result["translated_text"]) // "Hola, mundo!"
var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY");
var content = new StringContent(
JsonSerializer.Serialize(new {
text = "Hello, world!",
target_language = "es"
}),
Encoding.UTF8,
"application/json"
);
var response = await client.PostAsync("https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/", content);
var result = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<JsonElement>(
await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync()
);
Console.WriteLine(result.GetProperty("translated_text")); // "Hola, mundo!"
Antwurd
{
"translated_text": "Hola, mundo!",
"source_language": "en",
"target_language": "es",
"translations": {
"es": "Hola, mundo!"
},
"character_count": 13,
"translation_time": 0.45
}
Autentikaasje
Jo fersiken autentisearje mei in API- kaai. Jo kinne API- kaaien oanmeitsje fanút jo dashboard.
Koptekst ferifikaasje (oanrikkemandearre)
Authorization: Bearer ta_your_api_key_here
ApiKey Header
Authorization: ApiKey ta_your_api_key_here
Queryparameter
https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/?api_key=ta_your_api_key_here
Tekst oersette
Tekst oersette nei ien doeltaal.
POST https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/
Fersyklichem
| Parameters | & Type: | Ferantwurdlik | Beskriuwing |
|---|---|---|---|
text |
string | Ja | Te oersetten tekst (maksimum 50. 000 tekens) |
target_language |
string | Ja* | Target language code (e.g., "es", "fr", "de") |
source_language |
string | Gjin | Source language code. Default: "auto" (auto-detect) |
engine |
string | Gjin | Translation engine: "auto" (default), "huggingface", or "madlad". See Translation Models. Oersettingsmodellen. |
* Brûk target_language (tekenrige) foar ien taal of target_languages (array) foar meardere. Sjoch Multi- Target oersetting.
Antwurd
{
"translated_text": "Hola, mundo!",
"source_language": "en",
"target_language": "es",
"translations": {
"es": "Hola, mundo!"
},
"character_count": 13,
"translation_time": 0.45
}
source_language or set it to "auto" to automatically detect the source language. The detected language is returned in the source_language response field.
Multi- Target oersetting
Oersette tekst nei meardere talen yn ien fersyk. Brûkt itselde einpunt as ienfâldige oersetting.
POST https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/
Fersyklichem
{
"text": "Hello, world!",
"target_languages": ["es", "fr", "de", "ja"],
"source_language": "en"
}
Brûk target_languages (rige) ynstee fan target_language (tekenrige) foar meardere doelen.
Antwurd
{
"source_language": "en",
"translations": {
"es": "Hola, mundo!",
"fr": "Bonjour, monde!",
"de": "Hallo, Welt!",
"ja": "こんにちは、世界!"
},
"character_count": 52,
"translation_time": 2.31
}
Batch- oersetting
Meardere teksten yn ien kear oersette mei asynkroane ferwurking. In batch ynstjoere en in poll foar de resultaten.
POST https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/batch/
Stap 1: Batch ynstjoere
curl -X POST https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/batch/ \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"texts": ["Hello", "Goodbye", "Thank you"],
"target_language": "es",
"source_language": "en"
}'
Antwurd (HTTP 202 akseptearre)
{
"job_id": "67535b2b-c9e3-4f82-9499-e237edbc1dd8",
"status": "pending",
"total_texts": 3,
"queue_position": 1,
"source_language": "en",
"target_languages": ["es"],
"character_count": 22,
"credits_remaining": -1,
"poll_url": "https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/jobs/67535b2b-c9e3-4f82-9499-e237edbc1dd8/"
}
Stap 2: Poll foar resultaten
GET https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/jobs/{job_id}/
Polling foarbyld (Python)
import time, requests
job_id = response.json()["job_id"]
total = response.json()["total_texts"]
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"}
print(f"Batch submitted: {total} texts (job {job_id})")
while True:
result = requests.get(f"https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/jobs/{job_id}/", headers=headers).json()
status = result["status"]
processed = result.get("processed_texts", 0)
progress = result.get("progress_percentage", 0)
if status == "completed":
print(f"Done: {processed}/{total} in {result.get('processing_time', 0):.1f}s")
translations = result["result_data"]["translations"]
break
elif status == "failed":
raise Exception(result.get("error_message", "Translation failed"))
elif status == "pending":
print(f"Queued (position {result.get('queue_position', '?')})")
else:
print(f"[{status}] {processed}/{total} ({progress:.0f}%)")
time.sleep(3)
Antwurd (klear)
{
"job_id": "67535b2b-...",
"status": "completed",
"processed_texts": 3,
"total_texts": 3,
"progress_percentage": 100.0,
"processing_time": 10.65,
"result_data": {
"translations": ["Hola", "Adiós", "Gracias"],
"source_language": "en",
"target_language": "es",
"character_count": 22,
"processing_time": 10.65
}
}
Real-Time Progress Tracking
| Field | Beskriuwing |
|---|---|
status |
pending (queued, waiting for a GPU worker), processing (actively translating), completed, failed |
processed_texts |
Number of individual translations completed so far. Updates in real time as each text is translated. |
progress_percentage |
Completion percentage (0-100). Calculated from processed_texts / total_texts. |
queue_position |
Your position in the queue when status is "pending" (1 = next up). Null when processing or completed. Use this to estimate wait time and show queue status to your users. |
processing_time |
Total processing time in seconds (available when completed). |
Meartalige batch
Meardere teksten yn ien kear oersette nei meardere talen:
{
"texts": ["Hello", "Goodbye"],
"target_languages": ["es", "fr"],
"source_language": "en"
}
Foltôge resultaat_data
{
"translations": [
{"es": "Hola", "fr": "Bonjour"},
{"es": "Adiós", "fr": "Au revoir"}
],
"source_language": "en",
"target_languages": ["es", "fr"],
"character_count": 24,
"processing_time": 2.45
}
Fersykparameters
| Parameters | & Type: | Ferantwurdlik | Beskriuwing |
|---|---|---|---|
texts |
array | Ja | Te oersetten tekenrige |
target_language |
string | Ja* | Doeltaalkoade foar ien taal |
target_languages |
array | Ja* | Rige fan doeltaalkoades foar meardere talen |
source_language |
string | Gjin | Source language code. Default: "auto" |
* Jou ien fan target_language of target_languages, net beide.
Best Practices for Large Workloads
- Send 1 target language per batch request. This keeps each batch fast and makes progress easy to track.
- Keep batches at 50-100 texts. Smaller batches complete faster and give you more frequent progress updates.
- Submit as many batch jobs as you need — our GPU cluster auto-scales to handle demand. Jobs are processed in parallel across multiple instances.
- On timeout, re-poll the same job_id instead of submitting a new batch. The original job may still be processing on the GPU.
- Poll every 3-5 seconds. More frequent polling does not speed up processing.
Dokumint oersetting
Folsleine dokuminten oersette mei behâld fan de opmaak. Stjoert meardere triemformaten.
POST https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/document/
Fersyk (multipart/form-data)
| Parameters | & Type: | Ferantwurdlik | Beskriuwing |
|---|---|---|---|
file |
file | Ja | It dokumint om te oersetten (maksimum 10MB) |
target_language |
string | Ja | Target language code (e.g., "es", "fr", "de") |
source_language |
string | Gjin | Source language code. Default: "auto" (auto-detect) |
Stipe triemtypen
Documents
.txt- Plain text files.docx- Word-dokuminten.pdf- PDF-dokuminten (ynklusyf skansearre)
Data & Localization
.json- JSON- triemmen (oerset tekenrigewearden).xml- XML- triemmen.srt- Undertitelingstriemmen.po/.pot- Gettext oersettingstriemmen
Images (OCR)
.jpg/.jpeg- JPEG- ôfbyldings (OCR).png- PNG- ôfbyldings (OCR).tiff/.tif- TIFF- ôfbyldings (OCR).bmp- BMP- ôfbyldings (OCR).webp- WebP- ôfbyldings (OCR)
Foarbyld (cURL)
# Translate a Word document
curl -X POST https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/document/ \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-F "file=@document.docx" \
-F "target_language=es" \
-F "source_language=en"
# Translate text from an image (OCR)
curl -X POST https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/document/ \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-F "file=@scanned_page.jpg" \
-F "target_language=es" \
-F "source_language=en"
Antwurd
{
"id": 123,
"original_filename": "document.docx",
"file_type": "docx",
"source_language": "en",
"target_language": "es",
"status": "completed",
"character_count": 5420,
"translated_file_url": "/media/translated/document_es.docx",
"created_at": "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z",
"completed_at": "2024-01-15T10:30:05Z"
}
GET https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/document/{id}/
Kontrolearje de tastân fan in dokumint oersetting of helje it ynladen URL- adres op.
Tastânswearden
pending |
Triem opladen, wachtsjend op ferwurking |
processing |
Oersetting yn wurking |
completed |
Oersetting klear, ynladen beskikber |
failed |
Oersetting mislearre (check error_ message) |
Stipe talen
Krij de list fan alle stipe talen.
GET https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/languages/
Antwurd
{
"count": 186,
"results": [
{"iso": "en", "name": "English", "en_label": "English"},
{"iso": "es", "name": "Español", "en_label": "Spanish"},
{"iso": "fr", "name": "Français", "en_label": "French"},
...
]
}
Submit Corrections
Suggest a better translation for a given source text. Corrections enter a moderation queue; once approved by our team they surface as "Community Verified" translations for that text.
https://translateapi.ai/api/v1/ (not the api. translation host), and requires an API key.POST https://translateapi.ai/api/v1/suggestions/
Fersyklichem
| Parameter | & Type: | Beskriuwing |
|---|---|---|
source_text |
string | The original text that was translated. |
source_language |
string | Source language code (e.g. "en"). |
target_language |
string | Target language code (e.g. "es"). |
machine_translation |
string | The machine translation you are correcting. |
suggested_translation |
string | Your improved translation (must differ from machine_translation). |
Example Request
curl -X POST https://translateapi.ai/api/v1/suggestions/ \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"source_text": "Hello, world!",
"source_language": "en",
"target_language": "es",
"machine_translation": "Hola, mundo!",
"suggested_translation": "¡Hola, mundo!"
}'
Antwurd
{
"id": 4213,
"status": "pending",
"created": true,
"message": "Correction submitted for review."
}
Re-submitting the same source/language pair updates your existing suggestion instead of creating a duplicate (returns 200 with "created": false).
Oersettingsmodellen
Wy brûke state- of- the- art open source oersettingsmodellen dy' t draaie op ús eigen GPU- ynfrastruktuer. Alle modellen binne kommersjeel lisensearre (Apache 2. 0).
| Model | Talen | It bêste foar |
|---|---|---|
| Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt | 50+ talen | Algemiene talen (EN, ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, RU, ZH, JA, ensfh.) |
| Google MADLAD-400 | 400+ talen | Seldsume talen, útwreide dekking |
De API selektearret automatysk it bêste model foar jo taalpar. Jo kinne opsjoneel in engine Parameter:
| Motor | Beskriuwing |
|---|---|
"auto" |
Standert. Probearret earst HuggingFace, falt werom nei MADLAD- 400 |
"huggingface" |
Force HuggingFace/MarianMT (raastst, 50+ talen) |
"madlad" |
Force MADLAD-400 (400+ talen) |
Flaterbehanneling
De API brûkt standert HTTP-statuskoades om sukses of mislearring oan te jaan.
| Koade | Beskriuwing |
|---|---|
| 200 | Suksesfol |
| 202 | Accepted — Batch job queued successfully |
| 400 | Bad Request — Invalid parameters (missing text, unsupported language, etc.) |
| 401 | Unautorisearre - Unjildige of ûntbrekkende API- kaai |
| 402 | Payment Required — Character credits exhausted. Upgrade your plan or purchase a top-up. |
| 403 | Forbidden — API key lacks required scope or IP not in whitelist |
| 503 | Tsjinst net beskikber - oersettingsmasine tydlik net beskikber |
Flater antwurd opmaak
{
"error": "insufficient_credits",
"credits_remaining": 0
}
Usage Limits
TranslateAPI has no request rate limits. All requests are queued and processed by our auto-scaling GPU cluster. Your plan determines your monthly character allowance:
| Plan | Teken/moanne | Batch API | Documents | Priis | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frij | 250,000 | — | — | $0 | Ynskriuwe |
| Starter | 2,500,000 | $9/moanne( n) | Ynskriuwe | ||
| Pro | 10,000,000 | $29/moanne( n) | Ynskriuwe | ||
| Wurk | 40,000,000 | $79/moanne( n) | Ynskriuwe | ||
| Skaal | 125,000,000 | $199/moanne( n) | Ynskriuwe | ||
| Enterprise | Unlimited | $499/moanne( n) | Contact Sales |
As jo jo limyt oerschride, krije jo in 402 Payment Required Jo sille gjin antwurd krije oant de folgjende moanne of jo bywurkje.
Auto-Scaling Cloud Infrastructure
TranslateAPI runs on dedicated NVIDIA A100 GPU instances with automatic horizontal scaling. When demand increases, additional GPU instances are launched within minutes to maintain fast response times. All requests are queued and processed — send hundreds of concurrent requests and they'll all be handled. Real-time translations get priority, batch jobs process in the background.
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