Google Translate API/something similar

[Barade]

Hi,
I'd like to write a tool which does automatically translate texts from German into English and replaces them in a new output file or directly in the text.


Unfortunately, I have no experience with an API like this. Google translate seems to use the input text as GET parameter. Beside I've found this: Translating Text | Google Cloud Translation API Documentation | Google Cloud Platform
but apparently you need an application key and therefore to pay for it?

What would be the best way to realize this using simple HTTP requests? Just make a call like:
Google Translate

and parse the result? Or is there any better API?

edit:
Found this service: Google Translator Toolkit
But I am not sure if it can parse war3map.wts files and if there is a HTTP API.

I'd like to write a tool which parses the war3map.wts file and makes a request for every entry of the war3map.wts file.

 

[Lord of theDing]

You can use the API that chrome uses to translate websites. Just access the URL "https://translate.googleapis.com/translate_a/single?client=gtx&sl={fromCulture}&tl={toCulture}&dt=t&q={text}" (replace the stuff in { } by your text). The response is something like JSON that can be easily parsed. I wrote a plugin for a japanese game that translates all text using google, you can look at the code here (Game is NSFW, github link is not )

 

[Aniki]

Just access the URL ...

Well that's really nice, now one only has to learn network programming (socksets, protocols, encryption, etc.) and apply this knowledge into a program... ;P

PS: if we change the client parameter to equal "t" (&client=t) it stops working... =), "gtx" doesn't seem to be magical?

 

[Lord of theDing]

Well that's really nice, now one only has to learn network programming (socksets, protocols, encryption, etc.) and apply this knowledge into a program... ;P

You don't have to invent the weel again, there are many great resources and libs to do that. I don't know what programming language you want to use, but here are some ways:
Python: What is the quickest way to HTTP GET in Python?
C++: GitHub - whoshuu/cpr: C++ Requests: Curl for People, a spiritual port of Python Requests
Java: How to send HTTP request GET/POST in Java - Java2Blog

 

[Barade]

As I wrote in my first post, you need an application key for Google Translate. HTTP GET calls are not the problem. It's easy to write such a program as long as you have a service available.

 

[GhostWolf]

If you use a simple HTTP GET rather than use their API, you don't need any key.
E.g. Google Translate

This will of course be super slow if you do a GET for each word, so if you do go this way, concatenate them with new lines.
Google Translate

If you want to use any of Google's APIs directly, you need to create a free developer account.