API docs
JSON response fields are currently French (langues, detecte, attendu, confiance, longueur, profondeur, vitesse, resume). English aliases are not available.
Every endpoint is pay-per-call over x402 (USDC on Solana mainnet, gas sponsored). No account, no API key: an unauthenticated call returns HTTP 402 with a PAYMENT-REQUIRED header; settle it via the facilitator https://x402.dexter.cash and retry with the payment proof. Base URL: https://linguadetective.com.
POST /detect — $0.002
Detect the language(s) of a text. Offline trigram model, top-5 with confidence, ISO 639-3.
Request
curl -X POST https://linguadetective.com/detect \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"text":"Bonjour tout le monde, ceci est une phrase en français."}'
Response 200
{
"langues": [
{"code":"fra","nom":"français","iso6391":"fr","confiance":0.99},
{"code":"spa","nom":"espagnol","iso6391":"es","confiance":0.01}
],
"langue": "français",
"iso6393": "fra",
"confiance": 0.99,
"longueur": 52
}
Errors: 400 INVALID_INPUT (missing/empty text), 400 TEXT_TOO_SHORT (< 10 characters).
POST /verify — $0.004
Verify a text is written in the expected language (expected: ISO 639-1 or 639-3).
curl -X POST https://linguadetective.com/verify \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"text":"Bonjour tout le monde, ceci est une phrase en français.","expected":"fra"}'
{
"ok": true,
"detecte": "français",
"attendu": "français",
"confiance": 0.99
}
Errors: 400 INVALID_INPUT, 400 TEXT_TOO_SHORT, 400 INVALID_LANGUAGE (bad expected code).
POST /crawl — per page, progressive
Verify the language of whole pages. Three modes:
| Mode | Body | Price per page |
|---|---|---|
| links — you provide the URLs (max 200) | {"links":["https://…"],"langue":"fra"} | links: $0.015 / $0.010 / $0.006 for the 1–200 / 201–1000 / 1001+ brackets crawl (spider): +$0.005/page → $0.020 / $0.015 / $0.011 minimum $0.01/run |
| crawl — spider a whole site | {"url":"https://…","crawl":true,"langue":"fra","profondeur":2,"maxPages":100} | |
| page — one page | {"url":"https://…/page","langue":"fra"} |
Options: profondeur 0–5 (default 2), maxPages 1–200 (default 100), langue optional (ISO 639-1 or 639-3), vitesse "lente"|"normale"|"rapide" or 1–20 (default "normale"). Each page gets a verdict: conforme, non_conforme, incertain, erreur or indetermine, plus a summary (resume).
POST /api/audit — per page, progressive
Full multilingual audit of a batch of URLs (max 500) or a site (with options.crawl:true):
curl -X POST https://linguadetective.com/api/audit \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"urls":["https://example.com/"],"options":{"langue":"fra","crawl":true,"profondeur":2,"maxPages":100,"vitesse":"normale"}}'
Returns a structured JSON audit — score, classification, confiance, evidence, next_steps — plus a copy-pasteable Markdown report.
Prepaid credit
POST /v1/bundle/check— $0.006: buy a prepaid bundle, returns anX402-Credittoken.POST /v1/credit/topup— flexible amount (min $0.006): top up; returns anX402-Credittoken.
Send the token on later calls: each call debits the credit without a new Solana transaction — ideal for high volume.
Payment reference (x402)
| Chain | Solana mainnet — CAIP-2 solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp |
| Asset | USDC — mint EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v |
| Scheme | exact — gas sponsored (payer needs USDC only, no SOL) |
| Facilitator | https://x402.dexter.cash |
| Recipient | H3NuGHu9mpGgscj2DWtrs699PWdovPUicy2N9dDaYLTk |
MCP server
Agent frameworks can call these endpoints through the MCP server lingua-x402-mcp (npx -y lingua-x402-mcp) — tools detect_langue, verifier_langue, bundle_check, credit_topup. Setup and payment modes: Lingua Detective for AI agents.