n8n-nodes-langbly

n8n community node for the Langbly translation API. Context-aware machine translation at a 75% lower published usage rate than Google Cloud Translation Basic.

Features

• Translate Text - Translate any text to 100+ languages with context-aware quality
• Detect Language — Auto-detect the language of input text
• HTML Support — Preserve HTML tags during translation
• Formality Control — Choose formal or informal tone
• Batch Processing — Translate multiple items in a workflow

Installation

In n8n Desktop / Self-hosted

1. Go to Settings → Community Nodes
2. Click Install a community node
3. Enter: n8n-nodes-langbly
4. Click Install

Manual Installation

cd ~/.n8n/custom
npm install n8n-nodes-langbly

Setup

1. Create a Langbly account and add payment details to activate API access. The first 500K input characters each month are included.
2. Create an API key in your dashboard
3. In n8n, go to Credentials → New → Langbly API
4. Paste your API key

Operations

Translate Text

Translate text from one language to another.

Output:

{
  "translatedText": "Hallo wereld",
  "detectedSourceLanguage": "en",
  "sourceText": "Hello world",
  "targetLanguage": "nl"
}

Detect Language

Detect the language of input text.

Output:

{
  "detectedLanguage": "fr",
  "sourceText": "Bonjour le monde",
  "confidence": "high"
}

Example Workflows

Translate Incoming Emails

1. Email Trigger → receives email
2. Langbly → translates body to your language
3. Slack → sends translated email to channel

Multilingual Content Pipeline

1. Webhook → receives content
2. Langbly (Dutch) → translate to NL
3. Langbly (German) → translate to DE
4. Langbly (French) → translate to FR
5. Google Sheets → save all translations

Translate Spreadsheet Rows

1. Google Sheets Trigger → new row added
2. Langbly → translate specific column
3. Google Sheets → update row with translation

Pricing

Create an API key →

License

MIT

Links

• Langbly Website
• Pricing
• API Documentation
• GitHub Repository