[SalesForce] How to create/modify Custom Labels programatically?

Is there any possibility to create/modify programmatically custom labels using APEX or any other programming language?

As far as I observe there is a possibility to access them via

Label.your_label_name

But not able to create any or update it.

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Custom Labels are part of Metadata API. You can create it and modify by means of tools, that work with metadata. For example, using ant migration tool.

In apex you can do it with Andrew Fawcett's Apex Metadata API

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Just tested, Test class can access custom label. No need to enable seeAllDate=true.

[SalesForce] APEX: get a Custom Label translation in a certain language which is not equal to the current user’s language

In apex:page there is an attribute 'language' which you can set as the language of your choice/requirement to override the users language.

Check this link

language

The language used to display labels that have associated translations in Salesforce. This value overrides the language of the user viewing the page. Possible values for this attribute include any language keys for languages supported by Salesforce, for example, "en" or "en-US".

From documentation seems it should be possible. I haven't tried it out though.

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