Introduction:

This tool uses google translator to translate msgid(s) in django PO file. You can supply a target language and folder or .PO file absolute location in the input and tool will provide you translated file(s) in dest folder.

I used this tool to translate edX strings in urdu language.

• Python 2 is used.
• Tutorial for osx or linux only.

Setup

• Install requirements by running command on console.

  pip install -r requirements.txt

• Setup google service account key.

• Enable google translator api on your project from google cloud console.

• Export google service account key variable on console.

  export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="/home/user/Downloads/service-account-file.json"

To run:

• Use command python main.py
• Input file path like sample/wiki.po or folder path like sample
• Input language or languages for example ur for urdu and en for english.
• For single language input like: ur
• For multi language input like: zh-CN,ur,ar. You can add as much languages you want. Add comma to separate them without spaces.
• You can find list of supported languages here.

(ven) amir$ python main.py
Please input file or folder full path: sample  # whole folder
Please input target language(s) comma separated i.e en for english: ur,ar  # language codes urdu, arabic

Useful links

• https://cloud.google.com/translate/quotas
• http://polib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html#creating-po-catalogs-from-scratch
• https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/reference/libraries#client-libraries-resources-go