It stands for "host language", according to this page
What does `hl` stand for? [closed]
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14-01-2022 - |
Question
Various Google API endpoints and webpages use a hl=<language code>
parameter in the query string to set the language.
Example
hl=en
or
hl=no
What does hl
stand for?
Solution
OTHER TIPS
It is not intuitively obvious, but hl
designates the web interface language per this page.
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