Faʻamatalaga API

Faʻafesoʻotaʻi le faʻaliliuina malosi i au talosaga ma la matou REST API faigofie.

Faʻavaeina

O le TranslateAPI o loʻo ofaina ai se fesoʻotaʻiga REST faigofie mo le faʻaliliuina o faʻamatalaga i le va o 180+ gagana.

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 Dashboard → Taʻiala
  3. Click "Create API Key" and copy your key

API keys start with ta_ followed by 56 hex characters.

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

Faʻamaonia

Faʻamaonia au talosaga e faʻaaoga ai se ki API. E mafai ona e fausia ni ki API mai lau taʻiala.

Faʻamaonia o le ulutala (Fautuaina)
Authorization: Bearer ta_your_api_key_here
ApiKey Header
Authorization: ApiKey ta_your_api_key_here
Faʻamatalaga
https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/?api_key=ta_your_api_key_here
Tuʻu au ki API saogalemu! Ia aua neʻi faʻaalia i totonu o le code client-side poʻo repositories lautele.

Faʻaliliuina o le Tusitala

Faʻaliliuina o le tusitusiga i se gagana e tasi.

POST https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/
Suʻesuʻega
Paramita Igoa: E manaʻomia Faʻamatalaga
text string Ia Teugatupe e faʻaliliuina ai (maxima 50,000 characters)
target_language string Ia* Target language code (e.g., "es", "fr", "de")
source_language string E leai Source language code. Default: "auto" (auto-detect)
engine string E leai Translation engine: "auto" (default), "huggingface", or "madlad". See Translation Models. Faʻaliliuina o Faʻamatalaga.

* Faʻaaogaina target_language (string) mo le gagana tasi po o target_languages (array) mo le tele. Vaai Faʻaliliuina.

Tali
{
    "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.

Faʻaliliuina

Faʻaliliuina le tusitusiga i gagana eseese i se talosaga tasi. Faʻaaoga le pito i tua e pei o se faʻaliliuina tasi.

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

Faʻaaoga target_languages (array) i le tulaga o target_language (string) mo ni faʻamoemoega eseese.

Tali
{
    "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
}
Igoa: E mafai ona e faʻaliliuina i le 50 gagana i se talosaga tasi.

Faʻaliliuina

Faʻaliliuina o fuaiupu e tele i le taimi e tasi ma le faʻagasologa async. Tuʻuina atu se vaega ma le suʻesuʻega mo ni faʻaiuga.

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/
Laʻasaga 1: Tuʻuina atu le Batch
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"
}'
Tali (HTTP 202 Faʻamaonia)
{
    "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/"
}
Aʻoaʻoga 2: Suʻesuʻega mo Nisi Aʻafiaga
GET https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/jobs/{job_id}/
Polling Faʻataʻitaʻiga (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)
Tali (faʻatino)
{
    "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 Faʻamatalaga
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).
Multi-Language Batch

Faʻaliliuina o tusitusiga i gagana eseese i le taimi lava e tasi:

{
    "texts": ["Hello", "Goodbye"],
    "target_languages": ["es", "fr"],
    "source_language": "en"
}
Result_data ua maeʻa
{
    "translations": [
        {"es": "Hola", "fr": "Bonjour"},
        {"es": "Adiós", "fr": "Au revoir"}
    ],
    "source_language": "en",
    "target_languages": ["es", "fr"],
    "character_count": 24,
    "processing_time": 2.45
}
Paramita talosaga
Paramita Igoa: E manaʻomia Faʻamatalaga
texts array Ia Faasologa o fuaitau e toe faʻaliliuina
target_language string Ia* Faʻamaufaʻailoga o le gagana autu mo le gagana e tasi
target_languages array Ia* Faʻaputuga o faʻamaufaʻailoga o le gagana autu mo gagana eseese
source_language string E leai Source language code. Default: "auto"

* Tuuina atu pe target_language po o target_languages, e le o i latou uma.

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.

Faʻaliliuina o faʻamatalaga

Faʻaliliuina o faʻamaumauga atoa ma le faʻatumauina o le faʻaformatina. E lagolagoina ituaiga faila eseese.

POST https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/document/
Auaunaga (multipart/form-data)
Paramita Igoa: E manaʻomia Faʻamatalaga
file file Ia Le tusi talosaga e faʻaliliuina ai (maxima 10MB)
target_language string Ia Target language code (e.g., "es", "fr", "de")
source_language string E leai Source language code. Default: "auto" (auto-detect)
File Types Supported
Documents
  • .txt - Faʻamaufaʻailoga faʻapitoa
  • .docx - Tusitusiga a le Word
  • .pdf - Tusitusiga PDF (e aofia ai scanned)
Data & Localization
  • .json - JSON files (translates string values)
  • .xml - XML faila
  • .srt - Faila o le subtitles
  • .po / .pot - Faʻaliliuina o faila Gettext
Images (OCR)
  • .jpg / .jpeg - Ata JPEG (OCR)
  • .png - Ata PNG (OCR)
  • .tiff / .tif - Ata TIFF (OCR)
  • .bmp - Ata BMP (OCR)
  • .webp - Ata WebP (OCR)
Faʻataʻitaʻiga (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"
Tali
{
    "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"
}
Toe lagolago: O faʻamaumauga o ata ma PDF scanned e faʻaaogaina ai le faʻailoaina o faʻailoga opitika (OCR) e aveese ai le tusitusiga aʻo leʻi faʻaliliuina. Mo ni faʻaiuga sili ona lelei, faʻaaoga ata manino, maualuga le faʻamaoniga.
GET https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/document/{id}/

Vaʻai i le tulaga o se faʻaliliuina o se faʻamatalaga poʻo le toe maua o le URL o le faʻapipiʻiina.

Tulaga o le tulaga
pending File uploaded, waiting to be processed
processing Faʻaliliuina i le taimi nei
completed Faʻaliliuina ua maeʻa, download avanoa
failed Faʻaliliuina na faʻaleagaina (tagai error_message)

gagana lagolagoina

Maua le lisi o gagana uma e lagolagoina.

GET https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/languages/
Tali
{
    "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/
Suʻesuʻega
Parameter Igoa: Faʻamatalaga
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!"
}'
Tali
{
    "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).

Faʻaliliuina o Faʻamatalaga

Matou te faʻaaogaina faʻataʻitaʻiga faʻatulagaga.

Faʻafanua Igilisi Lelei mo
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt 50+ gagana paʻu gagana masani (EN, ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, RU, ZH, JA, etc.)
Google MADLAD-400 400+ gagana Faa-Samoa

O le API e filifili faʻaonapo nei le faʻataʻitaʻiga sili ona lelei mo lau paʻu gagana. E mafai ona e filifilia se engine Paramita:

Inisinia Faʻamatalaga
"auto" Faʻatonu. Faʻatonu le HuggingFace muamua, toe foʻi i le MADLAD-400
"huggingface" Faasa HuggingFace/MarianMT (le vave, 50+ gagana)
"madlad" Force MADLAD-400 (400+ gagana)

Faʻatonutonu o faʻafitauli

O le API e faʻaaoga ai faʻamaufaʻailoga tulaga HTTP masani e faʻaalia ai le manuia poʻo le faʻaleagaina.

Faʻailoga Faʻamatalaga
200 Saʻo
202 Accepted — Batch job queued successfully
400 Bad Request — Invalid parameters (missing text, unsupported language, etc.)
401 Le faʻamaonia - Taʻiala API lē talafeagai poʻo le leai
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 Auaunaga le maua - Faʻaliliuina o le masini i lalo mo se taimi puupuu
Faʻatulagaga o le tali o le faʻafitauli
{
    "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:

Plane Characters/Month Batch API Documents Tau
Free 250,000 $0 Saini mo le saoloto
Faʻaola 2,500,000 $9/mo Taʻitaʻia
Faʻapitoa 10,000,000 $29/mo Taʻitaʻia
Faigamalaga 40,000,000 $79/mo Taʻitaʻia
Scale 125,000,000 $199/mo Taʻitaʻia
Enterprise Unlimited $499/mo Contact Sales

Afai e sili atu lou faʻatapulaʻaina, o le a e mauaina se 402 Payment Required tali seia oʻo i le masina mulimuli pe e te faʻafouina.

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.

Need More Credits?

Run out of characters mid-month? Purchase a one-time credit top-up without changing your plan. View top-up packs

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