strapi-provider-translate-langbly

Langbly translation provider for strapi-plugin-translate.

Context-aware machine translation. Higher quality than Google Translate, 81-90% cheaper.

Installation

npm install strapi-provider-translate-langbly

Also make sure you have strapi-plugin-translate installed:

npm install strapi-plugin-translate

Configuration

Add to your config/plugins.js (or config/plugins.ts):

module.exports = {
  translate: {
    enabled: true,
    config: {
      provider: 'langbly',
      providerOptions: {
        apiKey: process.env.LANGBLY_API_KEY,
        // Optional: custom locale mappings
        // localeMap: {
        //   'zh-Hans': 'zh-CN',
        //   'zh-Hant': 'zh-TW',
        // },
      },
      // Optional: field-level translation config
      translatedFieldTypes: [
        'string',
        'text',
        'richtext',
        'component',
        'dynamiczone',
        'blocks',
      ],
    },
  },
};

Getting an API Key

1. Sign up at langbly.com/signup (free, no credit card)
2. Create an API key in your dashboard
3. Add it to your .env file:

LANGBLY_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

Features

• Context-aware - Translations that understand intent, not just words
• 100+ languages — All major languages supported
• All Strapi field types — Plain text, rich text, markdown, blocks (jsonb)
• Rate limited — Built-in Bottleneck rate limiter (200ms interval, 5 concurrent)
• Chunked requests — Automatically splits large content into API-friendly chunks
• Locale mapping — Configurable Strapi-to-Langbly locale code mapping
• Google Translate v2 compatible — Same proven API format

Supported Formats

| Format | Support | |--------|---------| | Plain text | Full | | HTML | Full | | Markdown | Full (via html conversion) | | Blocks (jsonb) | Full (via html conversion) |

Pricing

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

Provider Options

| Option | Type | Default | Description | |--------|------|---------|-------------| | apiKey | string | process.env.LANGBLY_API_KEY | Langbly API key | | apiUrl | string | https://api.langbly.com | API base URL | | localeMap | object | {} | Custom locale code mappings |

License

MIT