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Paulcraey
Paulcraey

Reputation: 391

Can web page translation by Google be detected?

I have a web page, in Dutch, with a poll with a radio button. I'd like to know which language the users speak. Is there a way I can detect if the page has been translated by Google when they submit? I do not use a translation bar, I am talking about the spontaneous google translation.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 6723

Answers (2)

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 3351

When translated through Google Translate, the target language is injected into the lang attribute of the main html tag, you can retrieve it with:

document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].getAttribute('lang')

which results in something like

en-x-mtfrom-nl... and this in turn you can log to your server or set as a cookie.

Upvotes: 2

Tschallacka
Tschallacka

Reputation: 28742

Just check a known element if the text matches your text.

function isDutch() {
    return $('#readmore').text() === "Meer lezen";
}

or a non jQuery solution:

function isDutch() {
    document.querySelector('#readmore').innerText  === "Meer lezen";
}

Just make sure the element you have is an easy translatable sentence like read more.

Then you update a hidden field in your form with the result.

You can do this the moment a click is registered on your radio button.

I just tested it on a russian site, lenta.ru and ran $('a[href="/parts/news"]').text(); after having translated it by right clicking the page and selecting translate this page(chrome). The content returned was in my language(dutch) in the jquery text().

proof of translation detection

Upvotes: 6

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