Detecting whether or not text is English (in bulk)

Question

I\'m looking for a simple way to detect whether a short excerpt of text, a few sentences, is English or not. Seems to me that this problem is much easier than trying to dete

Answer 1

Google Translate API v2 allows automated queries but it requires the use of an API key that you can freely get at Google APIs console.

To detect whether text is English you could use detect_language_v2() function (that uses that API) from my answer to the question Python - can I detect unicode string language code?:

 if all(lang == 'en' for lang in detect_language_v2(['some text', 'more text'])):
    # all text fragments are in English