looking for a quick way in for english-spanish translator

[jdawg]

Tuna wrote:
>> Kurt Granroth wrote:
>>     
>>> jdawg wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I am wanting to do a quick way to get english-spanish/spanish-english
>>>> translation ultimately from the command line.
>>>>
>>>> As a first step, I tried this:
>>>> wget 'http://translate.google.com/translate_t#es|en|pavimentado'
>>>>
>>>> and I got this back:
>>>> ---------- error -----------
>>>> --08:49:36--  http://translate.google.com/translate_t
>>>>            => `translate_t'
>>>> Resolving translate.google.com... 74.125.95.113, 74.125.95.100,
>>>> 74.125.95.101, ...
>>>> Connecting to translate.google.com|74.125.95.113|:80... connected.
>>>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
>>>> 08:49:41 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
>>>> ---------- end of error ----------
>>>>
>>>> So does anyone know a site where I can do this kind of thing. all the
>>>> ones I have found so far, won't let you do it.
>>>>         
>>> The output for that would be tricky to handle, even if it did work,
>>> since that URL returns a fully formatted HTML page.  You would have to
>>> do a lot of HTML parsing from the command line.
>>>
>>> A far better route would be to use the Google API.
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/
>>>
>>> The docs they have there are all Javascript specific, but at the core,
>>> it's all just JSON formatted requests and responses over HTTP.  'wget'
>>> and 'sed' should be able to make quick work of them.  If not, maybe you
>>> could create a couple line perl wrapper?
>>>
>>> Here's some example uses of the Google API (not the language one, but
>>> the concept is identical) in other languages:
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/index.html#fonje_snippets
>>>       
>> And, to follow up to myself, here is an example using curl and sed.
>> wget works just as well... I used curl here only because it's one
>> command line option easier to output to stdout:
>>
>> $ curl --silent
>> "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=hello&langpair=en%7Ces"
>> | sed -e 's,^.*translatedText":",,g' -e 's,"}.*$,,g'
>> hola
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>>     
>
> My friend wrote a python script that does all this. Some IRC'ers in here
> will remember bobsalad, he uses this script now.
>
> http://www.coderprofile.com/networks/source-codes/521/google-translator-script
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I wrote a humble bash script to do this. I like it because it can 
translate a whole phrase at a time, not simply words like dictionary does.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

[ $1 = 'e' ] && langpr='en%7Ces'
[ $1 = 's' ] && langpr='es%7Cen'
if [ -z $langpr ]; then
langpr='en%7Ces'
else
 shift
fi

phrase=$( echo $* | sed 's/ /%20/g')

curl --silent 
"http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=${phrase}&langpair=${langpr}" 
| sed -e 's!^.*translatedText":"!!' -e 's!}.*$!!' | tr -d '"' | fold -s 
-w 72

echo " "



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