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Comitatus

TranslateAPI simplicem REST interfacem textus inter plus quam 180 linguas traducendi praebet. Omnes puncta terminalia API responsum JSON restituunt.

1. Get Your API Key

Create a free account and generate your API key from the dashboard:

  1. Sign up at translateapi.ai/signup
  2. Go to Tabula → Index communium praefecturae Aquitaniae
  3. Click "Create API Key" and copy your key

API keys start with ta_ followed by 56 hex characters.

URL interretialis: 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!"
Repraesentationes
{
    "translated_text": "Hola, mundo!",
    "source_language": "en",
    "target_language": "es",
    "translations": {
        "es": "Hola, mundo!"
    },
    "character_count": 13,
    "translation_time": 0.45
}

Authenticatio

Authentificere tes petitiones per claviculam API. claviculas API ex tuis scriptis creare potestas. tabula.

Authenticatio capitis (recomendata)
Authorization: Bearer ta_your_api_key_here
ApiKey Header
Authorization: ApiKey ta_your_api_key_here
Parametrus query
https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/?api_key=ta_your_api_key_here
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Textus translatio

Textus interretialis in plurimis linguis.

POST https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/
Corpus petitionis
Parametrus Tipus Requiescit Descriptio
text string Si Textus ad tradundum (max 50 000 caracteres)
target_language string Si * Target language code (e.g., "es", "fr", "de")
source_language string No. Source language code. Default: "auto" (auto-detect)
engine string No. Translation engine: "auto" (default), "huggingface", or "madlad". See Translation Models. Textus interretialis.

Utilitas target_language (string) for single language or target_languages (array) for multiple. See Pagina interretialis multilinguis.

Repraesentationes
{
    "translated_text": "Hola, mundo!",
    "source_language": "en",
    "target_language": "es",
    "translations": {
        "es": "Hola, mundo!"
    },
    "character_count": 13,
    "translation_time": 0.45
}
Auto-Detection: Omit source_language or set it to "auto" to automatically detect the source language. The detected language is returned in the source_language response field.

Pagina interretialis multilinguis

Textum in plurimas linguas in unica petitione traduxit. Proprium punctum finem ut singularem translationem utitur.

POST https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/
Corpus petitionis
{
    "text": "Hello, world!",
    "target_languages": ["es", "fr", "de", "ja"],
    "source_language": "en"
}

Utilitas target_languages (array) in loco target_language (String) pro multis propositis.

Repraesentationes
{
    "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
}
Tipus: In plus quam 50 linguas translata est.

Textus interretialis

Multis textibus simultaneo translatio async processu. Submit a batch and poll for results.

Limits: Max 100 texts per batch, max 300 total items (texts × target languages). Jobs time out 45 minutes after processing starts.
Speed: Common languages (ES, FR, DE) use fast models (~0.1s/text). Less common languages use our multilingual model (~1-3s/text).
POST https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/batch/
Pacem 1.
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"
}'
Pagina interretialis (HTML 2.0)
{
    "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/"
}
Gradus 2: De Eventibus Quaerere
GET https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/jobs/{job_id}/
Pagina interretialis (Italiane)
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)
Descriptio (Anglice)
{
    "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 Descriptio
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).
Multilingue

Plurima textus in plurimas linguas simultaneo tradunt:

{
    "texts": ["Hello", "Goodbye"],
    "target_languages": ["es", "fr"],
    "source_language": "en"
}
Result_data complecta
{
    "translations": [
        {"es": "Hola", "fr": "Bonjour"},
        {"es": "Adiós", "fr": "Au revoir"}
    ],
    "source_language": "en",
    "target_languages": ["es", "fr"],
    "character_count": 24,
    "processing_time": 2.45
}
Parametra petitionis
Parametrus Tipus Requiescit Descriptio
texts array Si Array of strings to translate
target_language string Si * Index communium praefecturae Inferioris Linguae
target_languages array Si * Index communium praefecturae Finis Terrae Linguae
source_language string No. Source language code. Default: "auto"

* Provide either target_language vel target_languages, non ambo.

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.

Textus interretialis

Traduit omnem documentum formattationem conservando. Multis formatis archivis sustinet.

POST https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/document/
Descriptio (Anglice) Descriptio (Anglice)
Parametrus Tipus Requiescit Descriptio
file file Si Documentum ad tradundum (max 10MB)
target_language string Si Target language code (e.g., "es", "fr", "de")
source_language string No. Source language code. Default: "auto" (auto-detect)
Tipi archivii sustinenti
Documents
  • .txt - Textus simplex
  • .docx - Documenta Word
  • .pdf - Index communium praefecturae Scaniae (Anglice)
Data & Localization
  • .json - JSON files (translates string values)
  • .xml - Paginae XML
  • .srt - Subtitle files
  • .po / .pot - Textus interretialis
Images (OCR)
  • .jpg / .jpeg - JPEG imago (OCR)
  • .png - Imagines PNG (OCR)
  • .tiff / .tif - Imagines TIFF (OCR)
  • .bmp - BMP imago (OCR)
  • .webp - Pagina officialis (Italiane)
(Anglice) (Francogallice)
# 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"
Repraesentationes
{
    "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"
}
OCR suportus: Files imagines et scanned PDFs sunt processatae cum Optical Character Recognition (OCR) ut textum ante translationem extraheret. For best results, use clear, high-resolution images.
GET https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/document/{id}/

Verificare status documenti translationis aut retrievare URL download.

Status valorum
pending File uploaded, waiting to be processed
processing Translatio in progresso
completed Pagina interretialis, cum translatione
failed Errore in translatione (verificatio error_message)

Linguae suffragatae

Obtinuit listam omnium linguarum sustinendarum.

GET https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/languages/
Repraesentationes
{
    "count": 186,
    "results": [
        {"iso": "en", "name": "English", "en_label": "English"},
        {"iso": "es", "name": "Español", "en_label": "Spanish"},
        {"iso": "fr", "name": "Français", "en_label": "French"},
        ...
    ]
}

View All 186 Languages

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.

Note: this endpoint is served from the main domain https://translateapi.ai/api/v1/ (not the api. translation host), and requires an API key.
POST https://translateapi.ai/api/v1/suggestions/
Corpus petitionis
Parameter Tipus Descriptio
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!"
}'
Repraesentationes
{
    "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).

Textus interretialis

Haec pagina de lingua Anglica explicat, quae in lingua Anglica scripta est.

Modellum Linguae Optima.
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt 250 paginae interretiales Linguae communes (EN, ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, RU, ZH, JA, etc.)
Google MADLAD-400 400 linguas habet. Pagina interretialis linguae Graecae

The API automatically selects the best model for your language pair. You can optionally specify a engine Parametrus:

Motor Descriptio
"auto" Default. Trys HuggingFace first, falls back to MADLAD-400
"huggingface" 2007 - Ioannes I, papa (natus circa annum 500).
"madlad" Numerus incolarum est 400 (ab anno 2000).

Erroris manipulatio

Interretialis protocollum HTTP est protocollum interretiale quod interretialem communicare potest.

Codex Descriptio
200 Successus
202 Accepted — Batch job queued successfully
400 Bad Request — Invalid parameters (missing text, unsupported language, etc.)
401 Non autorizatus - clavicula API non valida vel mancante
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 Service Unavailable - Translation engine temporarily down
Erroris responsus formatus
{
    "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:

Planum Character/Month Batch API Documents Praemium
Liber 250,000 $0 Inscriptiones Graecas
Initium 2,500,000 $9/ms Subscribere
Pro 10,000,000 $29/ms Subscribere
Oeconomia 40,000,000 $79/ms Subscribere
Scala 125,000,000 $199/ms Subscribere
Enterprise Unlimited $499/ms Contact Sales

Si tu limitem excedit, tu accepit. 402 Payment Required Postea ad usque annum 1999 praeses factionis fuit.

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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