{"categories":[{"label":"Artificial Intelligence","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/scientific-engineering-artificial-intelligence/7"},{"label":"Information Analysis","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/scientific-engineering-information-analysis/2"},{"label":"Linguistic","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/text-processing-linguistic/2"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Identifies the language of UTF-8 text using Facebook's pretrained fastText lid.176 model, supporting 176 languages with optional memory-efficient compressed mode.","skillfed_tags":["language-detection","fasttext","multilingual"],"use_cases":["Route user-submitted text to language-specific NLP pipelines or translation services","Identify the language of social media posts or forum content for moderation or analysis","Detect bilingual or code-switched text by requesting top-k candidate languages","Preprocess multilingual datasets by filtering or grouping documents by detected language","Build a language-aware search or recommendation system that respects user language preference"],"what_it_does":"fasttext-langdetect wraps Facebook's pretrained fastText language identification model (lid.176) in a simple Python API. It detects which of 176 languages a given UTF-8 string is written in, returning a language code and confidence score. The package handles multi-line input and whitespace normalization automatically, and offers a low-memory mode using a compressed model variant for memory-constrained environments.\n\nThe core use case is rapid, accurate language detection for text processing pipelines\u2014content routing, multilingual NLP preprocessing, or user-generated content classification. It depends on fasttext-predict and requests, both of which install without compilation. Models are cached locally on first download and can be overridden via the FTLANG_CACHE environment variable.","worth_installing":"Yes. Active maintenance, permissive MIT license, low install friction, no known vulnerabilities, and strong benchmark performance make this a solid choice for production language detection. The API is straightforward, and prebuilt wheels eliminate compilation overhead. Install it if you need fast, accurate language identification across 176 languages without external service calls."},"id":"fasttext-langdetect","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/fasttext-langdetect","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/fasttext-langdetect.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/fasttext-langdetect/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-05-26","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"fasttext-langdetect","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"80x faster and 95% accurate language identification with fastText"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":194294,"position":9839,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"1.1.1"}