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I am looking for a library that can detect in which programming language a code snippet is written. We can make the assumption that the code snippet is written in one language only.

E.g. for natural languages, I use the Python library guess_language:

>>> from guess_language import guess_language
>>> guess_language("Ces eaux regorgent de renégats et de voleurs.")
'fr'
>>> guess_language("Tienes que seguir tu corazón.")
'es'
>>> guess_language("いいえ！忍者がいます")
'ja'
>>> not guess_language("??")
True

If possible, it should return the probabilities of belonging to each programming language (e.g. for one code snippet given as input, the ouput could be 94% MATLAB, 30% Python, 5% Java, etc). Ideally, callable from Python/Java/C++ (descending order of preference), and free.

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    How will the snippets be presented to the library? You can use e.g. github.com/github/linguist if the snippets are in files. – Neil Slater Jul 22 '14 at 7:17
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    Depending on the size of the snippet this can be almost impossible to do reliably, you could probably do as well with a few regex rules that look for defining characteristics. – Steve Barnes Jul 22 '14 at 20:54
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    Similar question on Stack Overflow – Gilles Jul 23 '14 at 7:24
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    @FranckDernoncourt Do you care in which language the actual library is written? – RockPaperLizard♦ Nov 10 '14 at 11:45
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    @RockPaperLizard Not really, just if possible callable from Python/Java/C++ (descending order of preference). – Franck Dernoncourt Nov 10 '14 at 14:37
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Here's one github/linguist that used by github, a ruby library.

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  • Could you please give a usage example? Thanks! – Nicolas Raoul♦ Mar 14 '16 at 6:17
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Here's another one blackducksw/ohcount see the ohcount_detect_language function, its for C, also has Ruby and Python port.

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  • Could you please give a usage example? Thanks! – Nicolas Raoul♦ Mar 14 '16 at 6:17
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Another library isagalaev/highlight.js for JavaScript, see the highlightAuto function in highlight.js source, it gives 1 or 2 possible answer.

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  • Could you please give a usage example? Thanks! – Nicolas Raoul♦ Mar 14 '16 at 6:17

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