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Hi everyone, once in one of my sentiment analysis projects, I was requested to check which languages were spoken in the letters. So, I used the API below to help me with my project. Here is the link to download the API: How to identify languages in Alteryx – Alteryx Community

First step:

Go to Dashboard | Detect Language

Create an account, by default you will be signed up for free-plan which allows you to do 1000 requests/day or 1 MB/day.

Second Step:

Copy the API key and paste it inside the API tool in the workflow, and then you will be set up to start.

Note: In case the free plan is not sufficient, as it was not for me, I signed up for Plus. Then, I won some credits which allowed me to sign up for Premium for a few days, and it helped me. It was enough.

How does it work?

I have created a workflow in Alteryx to show how the language is detected.

Just link the input to API tool, select the column which needs to be detected and run the workflow.

Input:

Output:

As we can see, API is bringing the language for each row inputted.

Bonus:

If you want to bring the language name for each language detected.

Go to API’s website => Languages => copy and paste the languages code and language in a text input, and then Join them by Language code. as below:

Hope this helps you as It helped me and thank you so much.

 

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