---
title: Translation
description: Represents the result of machine translating some status content
menu:
  docs:
    parent: entities
aliases: [
  "/api/entities/Translation",
  "/api/entities/translation",
]
---

## Examples

Translation of status with content warning and media

```json
{
  "content": "<p>Hello world</p>",
  "spoiler_text": "Greatings ahead",
  "media_attachments": [
    {
      "id": 22345792,
      "description": "Status author waving at the camera"
    }
  ],
  "poll": null,
  "detected_source_language": "es",
  "provider": "DeepL.com"
}
```

Translation of status with poll:
```json
{
  "content": "<p>Should I stay or should I go?</p>",
  "spoiler_text": "",
  "media_attachments": [],
  "poll": [
    {
      "id": 34858,
      "options": [
        {
          "title": "Stay" 
        },
        {
          "title": "Go"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "detected_source_language": "ja",
  "provider": "DeepL.com"
}
```


## Attributes

### `content` {#content}

**Description:** HTML-encoded translated content of the status.\
**Type:** String (HTML)\
**Version history:**\
4.0.0 - added

### `spoiler_warning` {#spoiler_warning}

**Description:** The translated spoiler warning of the status.\
**Type:** String\
**Version history:**\
4.2.0 - added

### `poll` {#poll}

**Description:** The translated poll options of the status.\
**Type:** Array\
**Version history:**\
4.2.0 - added

### `media_attachments` {#media_attachments}

**Description:** The translated media descriptions of the status.\
**Type:** Array\
**Version history:**\
4.2.0 - added

### `detected_source_language` {#detected_source_language}

**Description:** The language of the source text, as auto-detected by the machine translation provider.\
**Type:** String (ISO 639 language code)\
**Version history:**\
4.0.0 - added

### `provider` {#provider}

**Description:** The service that provided the machine translation.
**Type:** String\
**Version history:**\
4.0.0 - added

## See also

{{< page-relref ref="methods/statuses#translate" caption="POST /api/v1/statuses/:id/translate" >}}

{{< caption-link url="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/serializers/rest/translation_serializer.rb" caption="app/serializers/rest/translation_serializer.rb" >}}