A simple Google Translate translator for API users | hmm

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: A simple Google Translate translator for API users
Poster: Michael Joseph Wdowiak Beijer
Post title: hmm

Figure out how the Google Translate API works and build your own little app using AutoHotkey or AutoIT?

See e.g.:

"Use the Google Translate API for Free

The official Google Translate API is available for businesses only but you can use Google Apps Script to create your own Google Language Translation API without having to pay the enterprise license fee.

The text can be translated from one language to another using the LanguageApp service or, if you run out of quota, you can make a call to the secret translate.googleapis.com API that is internally used by the Google Translate extension for Chrome and requires no authentication.

You can publish the Google script and deploy it as a web app with parameters for source and target languages and the text query. You can specify any ISO language pair or say “auto” and the Google Translation API will auto detect the language of the source text.

* Written by Amit Agarwal */
/* web: ctrlq.org */

function doGet(e) {

var sourceText = ''
if (e.parameter.q){
sourceText = e.parameter.q;
}

var sourceLang = 'auto';
if (e.parameter.source){
sourceLang = e.parameter.source;
}

var targetLang = 'ja';
if (e.parameter.target){
targetLang = e.parameter.target;
}

/* Option 1 */

var translatedText = LanguageApp.translate(sourceText, sourceLang, targetLang)

/* Option 2 */

var url = " [url removed] "
+ sourceLang + "&tl=" + targetLang + "&dt=t&q=" + encodeURI(sourceText);

var result = JSON.parse(UrlFetchApp.fetch(url).getContentText());

translatedText = result[0][0][0];

var json = {
'sourceText' : sourceText,
'translatedText' : translatedText
};

// set JSONP callback
var callback = 'callback';
if(e.parameter.callback){
callback = e.parameter.callback
}

// return JSONP
return ContentService
.createTextOutput(callback + '(' + JSON.stringify(json) + ')')
.setMimeType(ContentService.MimeType.JAVASCRIPT);
}" ( [url removed] )

and:

[url removed] (tons of great, clear info)