> 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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