OpenAPI spec for text translation

This page contains only a guide that is auto-generated from DeepL's OpenAPI file.

For more detail about text translation, including information about request parameters, please see the Translate text entry.

Request Translation

post

/translate

Authorizations

Body

application/jsonapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded

source_langstring · enum

Language of the text to be translated. If this parameter is omitted, the API will attempt to detect the language of the text and translate it.

Example: EN

Options: BG, CS, DA, DE, EL, EN, ES, ET, FI, FR, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, LT, LV, NB, NL, PL, PT, RO, RU, SK, SL, SV, TR, UK, ZH

target_langstring · enumrequired

The language into which the text should be translated.

Example: DE

Options: AR, BG, CS, DA, DE, EL, EN-GB, EN-US, ES, ET, FI, FR, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, LT, LV, NB, NL, PL, PT-BR, PT-PT, RO, RU, SK, SL, SV, TR, UK, ZH, ZH-HANS, ZH-HANT

contextstring

Additional context that can influence a translation but is not translated itself.

Characters included in the context parameter will not be counted toward billing.

Example: This is context.

show_billed_charactersboolean

When true, the response will include the billed_characters parameter, giving the number of characters from the request that will be counted by DeepL for billing purposes.

split_sentencesstring · enum · default: 1

Sets whether the translation engine should first split the input into sentences.

Possible values are:

• 0 - no splitting at all, whole input is treated as one sentence
• 1 (default when tag_handling is not set to html) - splits on punctuation and on newlines
• nonewlines (default when tag_handling=html) - splits on punctuation only, ignoring newlines

Example: 1

Options: 0, 1, nonewlines

preserve_formattingboolean

Sets whether the translation engine should respect the original formatting, even if it would usually correct some aspects.

formalitystring · enum · default: default

Sets whether the translated text should lean towards formal or informal language. This feature is only available for certain target languages. Setting this parameter with a target language that does not support formality will fail, unless one of the prefer_... options are used. Possible options are:

• default (default)
• more - for a more formal language
• less - for a more informal language
• prefer_more - for a more formal language if available, otherwise fallback to default formality
• prefer_less - for a more informal language if available, otherwise fallback to default formality

Example: prefer_more

Options: default, more, less, prefer_more, prefer_less

model_typestring · enum

Specifies which DeepL model should be used for translation.

Options: quality_optimized, prefer_quality_optimized, latency_optimized

glossary_idstring

Specify the glossary to use for the translation. Important: This requires the source_lang parameter to be set. The language pair of the glossary has to match the language pair of the request.

Example: def3a26b-3e84-45b3-84ae-0c0aaf3525f7

tag_handlingstring · enum

Sets which kind of tags should be handled. Options currently available:

• xml
• html

Example: html

Options: xml, html

outline_detectionboolean · default: true

Disable the automatic detection of XML structure by setting the outline_detection parameter to false and selecting the tags that should be considered structure tags. This will split sentences using the splitting_tags parameter.

textstring[]required

Text to be translated. Only UTF-8-encoded plain text is supported. The parameter may be specified many times in a single request, within the request size limit (128KiB). Translations are returned in the same order as they are requested.

non_splitting_tagsstring[]

Comma-separated list of XML tags which never split sentences.

splitting_tagsstring[]

Comma-separated list of XML tags which always cause splits.

ignore_tagsstring[]

Comma-separated list of XML tags that indicate text not to be translated.

Responses

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{
  "translations": [
    {
      "detected_source_language": "EN",
      "text": "Hallo, Welt!",
      "billed_characters": 42,
      "model_type_used": "quality_optimized"
    }
  ]
}

The translate function returns a JSON representation of the translations in the order the text parameters have been specified.