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Dustin Getz
Dustin Getz

Reputation: 21801

Call Google Translate from Python

I want to execute this script (view source) that uses Google Translate AJAX API from python, and be able to pass arguments and get the answer back. I don't care about the HTML.

I understand I need to embed a Javascript interpreter of some sort. Does this mean I need to have a browser instance and manipulate it? What is the cleanest way to access this API from python?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2973

Answers (3)

Meori Oransky
Meori Oransky

Reputation: 688

Had to do this recently, and since I had to translate long strings, I couldn't use URL parameters, but rather use a data payload. Thought this is the best place to share this solution.
The trick basically is to use Python's excellent Requests module post, but since google require a GET request, use the 'X-HTTP-Method-Override' header to override the request method to GET.
(plainly using requests.get messes up the data payload)

the code:

import requests


def translate_es_to_en(text):
    url = "https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2"
    data = {
        'key': '<your-server-google-api-key>'
        'source': 'es',
        'target': 'en',
        'q': text
    }
    headers = {'X-HTTP-Method-Override': 'GET'}

    response = requests.post(url, data=data, headers=headers)
    return response.json()

Hope this helps anyone still tackling this

Upvotes: 1

tefozi
tefozi

Reputation: 5480

You can use google-api-translate-python to talk to google api.

EDIT: It wasn't clear where the sources are, found them here.

Upvotes: 3

Lennart Regebro
Lennart Regebro

Reputation: 172249

You can use the RESTful API instead. It's designed for environments that are not Javascript.

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/reference.html#_intro_fonje

That should be easy to use from Python.

Upvotes: 3

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