Litokomane tsa API

Integrate ho fetolela matla ho likopo tsa hao le rona bonolo REST API.

Ho qala

TranslateAPI e fana ka interface e bonolo ea REST bakeng sa ho fetolela mongolo lipakeng tsa lipuo tse fetang 180. Liphetho tsohle tsa API li khutlisa likarabo tsa JSON.

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 → Li-keys tsa API
  3. Click "Create API Key" and copy your key

API keys start with ta_ followed by 56 hex characters.

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

Botšepehi

Ntlafatsa lipotso tsa hau ka ho sebelisa konopo ea API. U ka etsa konopo ea API ho tsoa ho eona dashboard.

Bopaki ba sehlooho (bo khothalletsoang)
Authorization: Bearer ta_your_api_key_here
ApiKey Header
Authorization: ApiKey ta_your_api_key_here
Parameter ea potso
https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/?api_key=ta_your_api_key_here
Sebelisa li-key tsa hau tsa API ka mokhoa o sireletsehileng! Ha ua lokela ho li bonts'a ka kotloloho ho li-client-side code kapa li-repositories tsa sechaba.

Ho fetolela mongolo

Ho fetolela mongolo ka puo e le 'ngoe.

POST https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/
Bophelo ba kopo
Parameter Mofuta E hlokahalang Tlhaloso
text string Ha ho joalo Text to translate (max 50,000 characters)
target_language string Yeah* Target language code (e.g., "es", "fr", "de")
source_language string Ha ho joalo Source language code. Default: "auto" (auto-detect)
engine string Ha ho joalo Translation engine: "auto" (default), "huggingface", or "madlad". See Translation Models. Litšoantšo tsa ho fetolela.

* Ho sebelisa target_language (string) bakeng sa puo e le 'ngoe kapa target_languages (array) bakeng sa ho feta. Bona Ho fetolela lihlooho tse ngata.

Likarabo
{
    "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.

Ho fetolela lihlooho tse ngata

Ho fetolela mongolo ka lipuo tse ngata ka kopo e le 'ngoe. E sebelisa sebaka sa ho qetela se tšoanang le ho fetolela ho le' ngoe.

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

Ho sebelisa target_languages (array) eseng target_language (string) bakeng sa liphetho tse ngata.

Likarabo
{
    "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
}
Mefuta: U ka fetolela ho fihlela ho lipuo tse 50 ka kopo e le 'ngoe.

Ho fetolela

Ho fetolela litokomane tse ngata ka nako e le 'ngoe ka ho sebetsana le async. Tlosa batch' me u hlahlobe liphetho.

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/
Phapang 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"
}'
Likarabo (HTTP 202 e amoheloa)
{
    "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/"
}
Phapang 2: Poll bakeng sa Liphetho
GET https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/jobs/{job_id}/
Mohlala oa polling (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)
Likarabo (li felile)
{
    "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 Tlhaloso
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

Ho fetolela litokomane tse ngata ho lipuo tse ngata ka nako e le 'ngoe:

{
    "texts": ["Hello", "Goodbye"],
    "target_languages": ["es", "fr"],
    "source_language": "en"
}
Result_data e felile
{
    "translations": [
        {"es": "Hola", "fr": "Bonjour"},
        {"es": "Adiós", "fr": "Au revoir"}
    ],
    "source_language": "en",
    "target_languages": ["es", "fr"],
    "character_count": 24,
    "processing_time": 2.45
}
Liparametara tsa kopo
Parameter Mofuta E hlokahalang Tlhaloso
texts array Ha ho joalo Array ea lihlooho tsa ho fetolela
target_language string Yeah* Kode ea puo ea sepheo bakeng sa puo e le 'ngoe
target_languages array Yeah* Array ea li-codes tsa puo ea sepheo bakeng sa lipuo tse ngata
source_language string Ha ho joalo Source language code. Default: "auto"

* Fetola e le efe target_language kapa target_languages, eseng ka bobeli.

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.

Ho fetolela litokomane

Ho fetolela litokomane ka ho feletseng ka ho boloka ho hlophisoa. E tšehetsa litokomane tse ngata.

POST https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/document/
Lipotso (li-multipart/form-data)
Parameter Mofuta E hlokahalang Tlhaloso
file file Ha ho joalo Tlaleho eo u batlang ho e fetolela (max 10MB)
target_language string Ha ho joalo Target language code (e.g., "es", "fr", "de")
source_language string Ha ho joalo Source language code. Default: "auto" (auto-detect)
Likarolo tsa lifaele tse tšehelitsoeng
Documents
  • .txt - Lifaele tsa mongolo o tloaelehileng
  • .docx - Litokomane tsa Word
  • .pdf - Litokomane tsa PDF (ho akarelletsa le tse scanned)
Data & Localization
  • .json - Lifaele tsa JSON (li fetolela li-string values)
  • .xml - Lifaele tsa XML
  • .srt - Lifaele tsa li-subtitle
  • .po / .pot - Lifaele tsa ho fetolela Gettext
Images (OCR)
  • .jpg / .jpeg - Litšoantšo tsa JPEG (OCR)
  • .png - Litšoantšo PNG (OCR)
  • .tiff / .tif - Litšoantšo tsa TIFF (OCR)
  • .bmp - Litšoantšo tsa BMP (OCR)
  • .webp - Litšoantšo tsa WebP (OCR)
Mohlala (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"
Likarabo
{
    "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"
}
Tšehetso ea OCR: Lifaele tsa litšoantšo le li-PDF tse scanned li sebetsana le ho tsebahala ha li-optical character (OCR) ho tlosa mongolo pele o fetoloa. Bakeng sa liphetho tse ntle, sebelisa litšoantšo tse hlakileng, tse nang le botsitso bo phahameng.
GET https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/document/{id}/

Check the status of a document translation or get the download URL.

Matšoao a boemo
pending Faele e lokollotsoemetse ho sebetsanoa
processing Ho fetolela ho ntse ho etsoa
completed Ho fetolela ho phethetsoe, ho na le ho kenya
failed Ho fetolela ho sa atlehe (check error_message)

Li-languages tse tšehelitsoeng

Fumana lethathamo la lipuo tsohle tse tšehelitsoeng.

GET https://api.translateapi.ai/api/v1/translate/languages/
Likarabo
{
    "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/
Bophelo ba kopo
Parameter Mofuta Tlhaloso
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!"
}'
Likarabo
{
    "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).

Litšoantšo tsa ho fetolela

Re sebelisa li-models tsa ho fetolela li-open source tse sebetsang ka li-infrastructure tsa GPU tsa rona. Li-models tsohle li na le laesense ea khoebo (Apache 2.0).

Mofuta Li-languages E loketseng
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt Lihlopha tsa lipuo tse fetang 50 Li-language tse tloaelehileng (EN, ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, RU, ZH, JA, jj.)
Google MADLAD-400 400+ lipuo Li-languages tse sa tloaelehang, li-coverage tse felletseng

API e khetha ka boiketsetso mofuta o motle ka ho fetisisa oa puo ea hau. U ka khetha ho bonts'a engine Parameter:

Enjene Tlhaloso
"auto" Bofela. E leka HuggingFace pele, e khutlela ho MADLAD-400
"huggingface" Force HuggingFace/MarianMT (e potlakileng ka ho fetisisa, lipuo tse fetang 50)
"madlad" Force MADLAD-400 (400+ lipuo)

Ho sebetsana le liphoso

Li-API li sebelisa li-standard HTTP status codes ho bonts'a katleho kapa ho hloleha.

Kopa Tlhaloso
200 Bophelo bo botle
202 Accepted — Batch job queued successfully
400 Bad Request — Invalid parameters (missing text, unsupported language, etc.)
401 Ha e amoheloe - konopo ea API e fosahetse kapa e sa nepahale
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 Not Available - Translation engine temporarily down
Bophara ba karabo ea bothata
{
    "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:

Likarolo Litšoantšo/khoeli Batch API Documents Theko
Free 250,000 $0 Ikopanye le rona
Motsamaisi 2,500,000 $9/mo Ikopanye
Pro 10,000,000 $29/mo Ikopanye
Lichelete 40,000,000 $79/mo Ikopanye
Litlhaku 125,000,000 $199/mo Ikopanye
Enterprise Unlimited $499/mo Contact Sales

Ha u feta tekanyetso ea hau, u tla fumana 402 Payment Required karabo ho fihlela khoeli e tlang kapa u ntlafatsa.

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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