Example

Example

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""
Description: Language Recognizer API usage example.
Copyright: (C) 2016 EffectiveSoft Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Technical support: technical-support@effective-soft.com
"""

import json
import urllib
import urllib2


# sample text
sample_text = "Ces droits et tous les autres, ne sont que des manisfestations concrète du droit général a l'existence et à l'acquisition de sa fin. Ces déterminations doivent provenir du fait.";

# set the URL for POST request and specify API key for authorization purposes (change YourAPIKey to the Intellexer API key)
api_url = "http://api.intellexer.com/recognizeLanguage?apikey=YourAPIKey"

# print response results
def print_response(response):
	languages = response.get('languages')
	for lang in languages:
		print "Language ", lang['language']
		print "Encoding ", lang['encoding']
		print "Weight ", lang['weight']

# create request to the Language Recognizer API service
def request_api(url, text):
	header = { 'Content-Type' : "application/octet-stream" }
	req = urllib2.Request(url, text, header)
	conn = urllib2.urlopen(req)
	try:
		json_response = json.loads(conn.read())
	finally:
		conn.close()
	print_response(json_response)

# perform the request
try:
	request_api(api_url, sample_text)
except urllib2.HTTPError as error:
	print 'HTTP error - %s' % error.read()

Output

Language  French
Encoding  utf-8
Weight  9.11012893258