using-google-translate-api

How to Translate Text in Python

To run this:

• pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• Tutorial code is in translator.py.
• If you want to translate a document, you can use translate_doc.py:

  python3 translate_doc.py --help
  

  Output:

  usage: translate_doc.py [-h] [-s SOURCE] [-d DESTINATION] target
  
  Simple Python script to translate text using Google Translate API (googletrans
  wrapper)
  
  positional arguments:
  target                Text/Document to translate
  
  optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s SOURCE, --source SOURCE
                          Source language, default is Google Translate's auto
                          detection
  -d DESTINATION, --destination DESTINATION
                          Destination language, default is English
  

• For instance, if you want to translate text in the document wonderland.txt from english (en as language code) to arabic (ar as language code):

  python translate_doc.py wonderland.txt --source en --destination ar
  

  A new file wonderland_ar.txt will appear in the current directory that contains the translated document.
• You can also translate text and print in the stdout using translate_doc.py:

  python translate_doc.py 'Bonjour' -s fr -d en
  

  Output:

  'Hello'