n8n-nodes-langbly

n8n community node for the Langbly translation API. Context-aware machine translation, 81-90% cheaper than Google Translate.

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. Sign up at langbly.com/signup (free, 500K chars/month)
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.

| Parameter | Required | Description | |-----------|----------|-------------| | Text | Yes | The text to translate | | Target Language | Yes | ISO 639-1 code (e.g., nl, de, fr) | | Source Language | No | Auto-detected if empty | | Format | No | text (default) or html | | Formality | No | formal, informal, or default |

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

| Plan | Price | Characters/mo | |------|-------|--------------| | Free | $0 | 500K | | Starter | $19/mo | 5M | | Growth | $69/mo | 25M | | Scale | $199/mo | 100M |

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License

MIT

Links

• Langbly Website
• API Documentation
• GitHub Repository