A simple Google Translate translator for API users | here you go

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: A simple Google Translate translator for API users
Poster: Dallas Cao
Post title: here you go

The api key is simply an authentication with Google server and it doesn't contain any personal information, whoever's api key you are using, you submit your text directly to google translate API and the process is identical.

Here is what happened:
1. You send an API key along with source text to Google.
2. Google says yes, the API key is valid. Send back translation.

How come using your own key give you an extra layer of privacy?

Of course in another scenario, when you use other people's API.

1. You submit your text to the API key'owners server.
2. That private server requests translation from google and then return the translation back to you.

Then using others' key and your own key is no longer the same.

And the third scenario: danger! Using your own key with the third party program, and the third party is rouge. Then it steals your api key and therefore can spend your money. Of course Samuel you are doing an open source program, you won't do that.

[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:

[quote]Dallas Cao wrote:
Using your own API key won't give you an extra layer of privacy. [/quote]

What is your source for that information?

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By the way, somehow the script got deleted from my FTP site. So I uploaded it again. Here are the versions currently available:

For premium Google Translate:

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For non-premium Google Translate:

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