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Use requirements.txt to install all requirements.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Then start simple the small server with the fellowing command

python detect_language.py

To try the web service you can use curl

curl -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -X POST -d "text=Hello+world.+Has+the+sun+risen+on+you+today%3F" http://localhost:8001/

detect_language.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Small webservice based on wsgiservice that try to detect the natural language of one text
"""

from wsgiservice import *
from guess_language import guessLanguage

@mount('/')
class Index(Resource):
        NOT_FOUND = (KeyError,)

        def POST(self):
                """
                Get text from the post form and then try to determine de language
                with guess-language library
                """
                text = None
                if self.request.POST['text'] is not None:
                        text = self.request.POST['text']

                language = 'UNKNOWN' # Default value by guessLanguage
                if text is not None:
                        language = guessLanguage(text)

                return dict(language=language)

app = get_app(globals())

if __name__ == '__main__':
        from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server
        print "Running on port 8001"
        make_server('', 8001, app).serve_forever()

requirements.txt

WsgiService==0.3
-e git://github.com/dsc/guess-language.git#egg=guess-language