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

Kurt