Python script to automate use of Google Translate? (or othertranslator)

[Kenneth McDonald]

I have the need to occasionally translate a single word
programatically. Would anyone have a Python script that would let me
do this using Google (or another) translation service?

Thanks,
Ken

 

[Lie]

I have the need to occasionally translate a single word
programatically. Would anyone have a Python script that would let me
do this using Google (or another) translation service?

Thanks,
Ken

Are you sure you want to use Google translation service (or other
online translation services) cause you won't be able to translate if
you don't have internet. On the other hand, if you're only looking
translator for yourself, you could search for some firefox plugins or
Google Toolbar.

 

[Trent Nelson]

As a matter of fact, yes, I do! This happens to be my most favourite piece of Python code I've ever written, too...

In [1]: from translate import *

In [2]: translate('French', 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.')
Le renard brun rapide a sauté par-dessus le chien paresseux.

In [3]: translate('German', 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.')
Der schnelle braune Fuchs sprang über den faulen Hund.

In [4]: translate('Spanish', 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.')
El zorro marrón rápido saltó sobre el perro perezoso.

And translate.py:

import sys
from urllib import urlopen, urlencode
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

url = 'http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr'
languages = {
'French' : 'en_fr',
'German' : 'en_de',
'Italian' : 'en_it',
'Spanish' : 'en_es',
'Russian' : 'en_ru',
'Portuguese': 'en_pt',
'Dutch' : 'en_nl',
'Japanese' : 'en_ja',
}

def translate(lang, text):
kwds = { 'trtext' : text, 'lp' : languages[lang]}
soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen(url, urlencode(kwds)))
print soup.find('div', style='padding:10px;').string

if __name__ == '__main__':
translate(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2])

Enjoy!


Regards,


Trent.

 

[Stef Mientki]

As a matter of fact, yes, I do! This happens to be my most favourite piece of Python code I've ever written, too...

thanks Trent,
that's really beautiful !!

cheers,
Stef