Documentation for the Lecto Translation API which provides fast machine translation at reasonable prices.

• Fast, high quality Translation API powered by Neural Machine Translation models.
• Free Translation API trial plan, with paid plans as low as $0.3 per million characters.
• Text/HTML/JSON translation
• Multiple source texts and target languages in a single request.
• Protected JSON values: Skip translations as desired with JSON data payload.
• 90+ languages supported.

For personalized integration support or private plans with higher quotas, please contact [email protected] or via Telegram @lectoai . Or hit us up on Twitter @LectoAI

The OpenAPI 2.0 Documentation for the Lecto Translation API is present within this repo at ./swagger.yaml.

You can sign up to our site directly or access us via your RapidAPI subscription.

Firstly, sign up to the Lecto Translation API Dashboard. After signing up, you'll get access to your Personal API Key, which you can use to access the API right away. We provide a limited free trial for you to try out our API, after which you can subscribe to one of our Pricing Plans. The lowest pricing plan starts at just US$1.99/month for 1 million translated characters per month.

You must send your API Key as the value of the header X-API-Key.

Sample Request with API Key:

curl -i -X POST "https://api.lecto.ai/v1/translate/text" \
    -H 'X-API-Key: <API Key>' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H 'Accept: application/json' \
    --data-raw '{
        "texts": ["Just try it mate.","What are you waiting for?"],
        "to": ["pt-BR", "de"],
        "from": "en"
    }' --compressed

Sign up to a Free Translation API trial for Lecto Translation API at RapidAPI to obtain your RapidAPI API Key which is authorized to access the Lecto Translation API.

You can use your RapidAPI API Key with the Lecto Translation API for authentication after signing up to one of our plans. This API key must be sent as the value of the header X-Rapidapi-Key.

Sample Request with RapidAPI API Key:

curl -i "https://lecto-translation.p.rapidapi.com/v1/translate/text" \
    -H 'X-Rapidapi-Key: <RapidAPI API Key>' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H 'Accept: application/json' \
    --data-raw '{"texts":["Just try it mate.","What are you waiting for?"],"to":["hi"],"from":"en"}' \
    --compressed

We have provided several code samples to get you started with the Lecto Translation API.

A sample python script based on the requests package is available at examples/python/request.py. This sample works with the API on our website.

1. Install the requests package with python -m pip install requests

2. Run this sample python script with:

API_KEY=<YOUR-API-KEY> python examples/python/request.py

Note that the value of the API_KEY environment variable here is the API Key you obtained from the Lecto Translation API Documentation in the previous section.

A sample PHP script based on the guzzle HTTP client is available at examples/php/guzzle.php. This sample works with our RapidAPI offering.

1. Install Guzzle using composer as per the Installation instructions :

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
cd examples/php
composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle:^7.0

2. Run this sample PHP script from the root of this repo with your RapidAPI API Key.

RAPIDAPI_API_KEY=<RapidAPI API Key> php examples/php/guzzle.php

A sample NodeJS script based on the axios HTTP client is available at examples/javascript/axios.js. This sample works with our RapidAPI offering.

This script also demonstrates the use of the alternative content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST request header which can be used to translate source texts with special characters, such as newline, tabs etc. This is unlike content-type: application/json POST request which requires escaping such characters.

1. Install axios using npm as per the Installation instructions :

npm install axios

2. Run this sample Node script from the root of this repo with your RapidAPI API Key.

RAPIDAPI_API_KEY=<RapidAPI API Key> node examples/javascript/axios.js

We use node-fetch for NodeJS as fetch is not available natively in NodeJS. If you are using fetch client side (i.e. in a browser), then fetch is available natively and there is no need to import node-fetch.

1. Install node-fetch using npm as per the Installation instructions Make sure to install node-fetch@2 for version 2 which is the latest.

npm install node-fetch@2

2. Run this sample Node script from the root of this repo with your RapidAPI API Key.

RAPIDAPI_API_KEY=<RapidAPI API Key> node examples/javascript/fetch_node.js

For a pure browser (client-side) example of using the Browser fetch API, please refer to examples/javascript/fetch_browser.js. You must replace <YOUR_API_KEY> in the sample with your actual RapidAPI API key.