looking for a quick way in for english-spanish translator

[Tuna]

> 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 " "
>
>

There's a keeper.

*saves to disk*