A simple script that hooks into facebook and google translate api's. Allowing you to speak to different languages on the fly!
Example:
Friend: Sends you a message in Romanian
You: Recieve message translated to English
You: Send reply in English
Friend: Recieves your reply in Romanian
- Install
nodeandnpm - Change to that directory and run
npm install - Open
credentials.js, you'll need to input your facebook username, password, a google-translate API key and the languages you're going to translate between. - Run
npm start - Wait for somebody to message you.
- Have facebook open in a tab, just to keep an eye on what the script is sending/receiving
- The script currently waits for someone to message you first. It's all purely reactive right now.
- If you chat through the script, it will translate for everyone you chat to.
- Fixed:
It will not tell you who has started speaking to you. Just comes up with the message. - You may have to disable two factor authentication/login review on facebook to get login working.
- You will reply to whoever has messaged you, conversations are threaded as they come in.
This is a proof of concept more than anything else, something I knocked together in about an hour. I'd love to come back and give this more maintenance in the future. I just have to find the time.