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API

This page gives a few examples of how to use the Tatoeba API.

For one sentence

To retrieve sentence number 1:

https://tatoeba.org/eng/api_v0/sentence/1

Search results

Search: English sentences containing the word "Canadian" contained in list 907 that have direct Japanese translations

Note that unless the search string is preceded by an equals sign, the search will not be exact, so this query will also match "Canadians".

  • from: eng
  • to: jpn
  • list: 907

  • translations: direct only

    https://tatoeba.org/eng/api_v0/search?from=eng&list=907&query=Canadian&trans_filter=limit&trans_link=direct&trans_to=jpn&to=jpn

Search: English sentences containing the word "Boston" that have audio and Japanese translations (direct or indirect), sorted by creation date

  • from: eng
  • to: jpn
  • audio: yes
  • sort: by creation date

  • translations: direct and indirect

    https://tatoeba.org/eng/api_v0/search?from=eng&trans_filter=limit&query=Boston&sort=created&has_audio=yes&trans_to=jpn&to=jpn

Search: English sentences containing the word "=play" (exact match) in list 907 that have direct translations in Japanese

  • from: eng
  • to: jpn
  • list: 907
  • sort: words

  • translations: direct only

    https://tatoeba.org/eng/api_v0/search?from=eng&list=907&query=%3Dplay&sort=created&trans_filter=limit&trans_link=direct&trans_to=jpn&to=jpn

Other

To figure out how to make a call to the API, you can perform an advanced search, then change the first part of the URL from this:

https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences

to this:

https://tatoeba.org/eng/api_v0

For instance, if you use the advanced search interface to select English sentences without audio that contain the word "those", you will see that the URL looks like this:

https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/search?from=eng&has_audio=no&native=&orphans=no&query=those&sort=relevance&sort_reverse=&tags=&to=&trans_filter=limit&trans_has_audio=&trans_link=&trans_orphan=&trans_to=&trans_unapproved=&trans_user=&unapproved=no&user=

Change the first part of the URL in order to produce this URL, which uses the API:

https://tatoeba.org/eng/api_v0/search?from=eng&has_audio=no&native=&orphans=no&query=those&sort=relevance&sort_reverse=&tags=&to=&trans_filter=limit&trans_has_audio=&trans_link=&trans_orphan=&trans_to=&trans_unapproved=&trans_user=&unapproved=no&user=

Paging

You can use the count and perPage in the paging information to find out how many pages are contained in the search results. For instance, the following call:

https://dev.tatoeba.org/eng/api_v0/search?from=eng&list=907&query=Canadian&trans_filter=limit&trans_link=direct&trans_to=jpn&to=jpn&page=2

will produce the following result:

"paging": {
  "Sentences": {
    "finder": "all",
    "page": 2,
    "current": 8,
    "count": 18,
    "perPage": 10,
    "start": 11,
    "end": 18,
    "prevPage": true,
    "nextPage": false,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "sort": null,
    "direction": null,
    "limit": null,
    "sortDefault": false,
    "directionDefault": false,
    "scope": null,
    "completeSort": []
}

},

The relevant properties are:

  • page: current page
  • current: number of items displayed in the current page
  • count: total number of results
  • perPage: number of results per page

To find the number of pages in total, divide count by perPage and round up to the nearest integer.

For more information on the API

See Tatoeba/tatoeba2 GitHub issue #2669.

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