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Google Translate

Terminal - Google Translate
translate(){ wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-en}" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/'; }
2010-03-08 03:15:48
User: matthewbauer
Functions: sed wget
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Google Translate

Usage:

translate <phrase> <source-language> <output-language>

Example:

translate hello en es

See this for a list of language codes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

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Terminal - Alternatives
translate() { lng1="$1";lng2="$2";shift;shift; wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=${@// /+}&langpair=$lng1|$lng2" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/'; }
2010-05-02 22:15:30
User: bandie91
Functions: sed wget
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Google Translate

allow multiword translations

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cmd=$( wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-en}" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/'; ); echo "$cmd"
2010-03-13 01:09:00
User: dtolj
Functions: sed wget
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Google Translate
translate <phrase> <source-language> <output-language>

works from command line

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wget -U "Mozilla/5.0" -qO - "http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=t&text=translation+example&sl=auto&tl=fr" | sed 's/\[\[\[\"//' | cut -d \" -f 1
2011-03-06 13:46:16
User: sairon
Functions: cut sed wget
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Google Translate

substitute "example" with desired string;

tl = target language (en, fr, de, hu, ...);

you can leave sl parameter as-is (autodetection works fine)

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curl -s -A "Mozilla" "http://translate.google.com.br/translate_a/t?client=t&text=Hi+world&hl=pt-BR&sl=en&tl=pt&multires=1&ssel=0&tsel=0&sc=1" | awk -F'"' '{print $2}'
2011-07-03 00:11:52
User: gean01
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Translates a phrase from English to Portuguese

Translates a string from English to Portuguese by using google translator web service.

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See https://redmine.sputnick-area.net/projects/show/polytranslator

Comment by sputnick 167 weeks and 3 days ago

Also try:

translate(){ curl -s "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=hi&langpair=$(curl -s "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/detect?v=1.0&q=$1" | sed 's/.*"language":"\([^"]*\)".*/\1^C/')%7C$2" | sed 's/.*{"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*/\1\n/'

Will fetch the source language for you.

Comment by matthewbauer 167 weeks and 3 days ago
translate(){ curl -s "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=hi&langpair=$(curl -s "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/detect?v=1.0&q=$1" | sed 's/.*"language":"\([^"]*\)".*/\1^C/')%7C$2" | sed 's/.*{"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*/\1\n/'; }
Comment by matthewbauer 167 weeks and 3 days ago

Actually, if you leave the source language blank, it will guess it anyway and it's normally pretty successful. Also, you can have the command translate to English if you don't provide a language to translate to by using a default value for the second parameter, like this:

translate(){ wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=%7C${2:-en}" | sed 's/.*{"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*/\1\n/'; }
Comment by eightmillion 167 weeks and 2 days ago

In bash it doesn't work with spaces or accentuated letters (in french for example). This one does it (accentuated, bash working, and guessing source language if not provided) :

translate(){ curl -s "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=`perl -MURI::Escape -e 'print uri_escape($ARGV[0]);' "$1"`&langpair=`if [ "$3" != "" ]; then echo $2; fi;`%7C`if [ "$3" == "" ]; then echo $2; else echo $3; fi;`" | sed 's/{"responseData": {"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}, .*}/\1\n/'; }
Comment by fab4am 167 weeks and 2 days ago

ok the wget one seems to work too with spaces and accents

Comment by fab4am 167 weeks and 2 days ago

how do you know the abbreviations for languages? link please.

Comment by kjowens 164 weeks and 4 days ago

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

Comment by matthewbauer 164 weeks and 4 days ago

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