Google translate from command line

[maniandram]

It's not a bug in the program.
Your shell is intrepting the ' to be a quote.
To solve the problem, escape the quote e.g. \'

[maxideci]

Save this in ~/bin/translate

#!/usr/bin/env python
from urllib2 import urlopen
from urllib import urlencode
import sys

# The google translate API can be found here: 
# http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#Examples

lang1=sys.argv[1]
lang2=sys.argv[2]
langpair='%s|%s'%(lang1,lang2)
text=' '.join(sys.argv[3:])
base_url='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?'
params=urlencode( (('v',1.0),
                   ('q',text),
                   ('langpair',langpair),) )
url=base_url+params
content=urlopen(url).read()
start_idx=content.find('"translatedText":"')+18
translation=content[start_idx:]
end_idx=translation.find('"}, "')
translation=translation[:end_idx]
print translation 

Make it executable:

chmod +x ~/bin/translate

Use it like this:

translate en es where are you

en (English) is the source language
es (Spanish) is the target language
"where are you" is the text to be translated

Output:

dónde estás

unutbu u rawk!!! such cool code...

I tried translating a web page thru command line?? i.e I want to pass an url as an command line argument and get a translated url as output.
for example I would like to convert German web page "http://www.sueddeutsche.de/" into English, using "http://translate.google.com/?hl=en#" is it possible??

Thanks!!

[ivanzoid]

Save this in ~/bin/translate

#!/usr/bin/env python
from urllib2 import urlopen
from urllib import urlencode
import sys

# The google translate API can be found here: 
# http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#Examples

lang1=sys.argv[1]
lang2=sys.argv[2]
langpair='%s|%s'%(lang1,lang2)
text=' '.join(sys.argv[3:])
base_url='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?'
params=urlencode( (('v',1.0),
                   ('q',text),
                   ('langpair',langpair),) )
url=base_url+params
content=urlopen(url).read()
start_idx=content.find('"translatedText":"')+18
translation=content[start_idx:]
end_idx=translation.find('"}, "')
translation=translation[:end_idx]
print translation 

Hi, I'm getting this error with this script now:

null, "responseDetails": "Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see http://code.google.com/apis/errors", "responseStatus": 403

Probably now we need to pass our google account's cookie somehow?..

[larryp7639]

Hi mag_dex

Interesting idea. I never tried it myself but if I were to, my starting point might be using a commandline driven textbased web browser such as Lynx maybe (?)

http://lynx.isc.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

Such a very amazing link!
Thanks you for the post.