Problems to configurate Chromium to translate websites.

Camello · 07-20-2022, 04:30 AM

Hello,

I install chromium* but I can't find how to configure it to always translate from any language to Spanish the websites I visit in a permanent way/stable.

Right-clicking on the page in question opens in the URL the application for the language translations, but I can't find an option to make this permanent -- so every time I switch to another page, or even on the same page when I go to another link, it comes back into English.

An option to translate in 'languages' is frozen:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...1&d=1658309044

What am I missing?. What else do I need to do?

*sudo apt install chromium -y

sudo apt install chromium-l10n chromium-shell
chromium-driver

*Version 103.0.5060.114 (Official Build) built on Debian 11.3, running on Debian 11.4 (64-bit)

*Debian 11 Bullseye.

Thanks for any suggestions, comments.

teckk · 07-20-2022, 11:49 AM

What language and other headers is your web browser reporting to websites?

In a terminal run:

Code:

ncat -klp 8100 -v

Then navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8100 in your web browser. Look at the terminal.

Or got to one of those web sites that tells you.
https://www.whatismybrowser.com/dete...rowser-sending

You can then go to chromium's config and set the default language for page requests. Look at it again and see what header it is sending.

Another help for that would be, open netcat in a terminal again and:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python

from urllib import request

agent = ('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64 x64; rv:102.0) '
            'Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0')

user_agent = {'User-Agent': agent,
            'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,'
            'application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
            'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3',
            'Accept-Encoding': 'none',
            'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8',
            'Connection': 'keep-alive'}
            
url = 'http://127.0.0.1:8100'

req = request.Request(url, data=None, headers=user_agent)

request.urlopen(req).read()

Look and see what is reported in the terminal

You can change the language in that header, look and see what it reports. That will give you a better understanding of what is being sent.

teckk · 07-20-2022, 11:55 AM

You could also of course change that to:

Code:

url = 'https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-http-headers-is-my-browser-sending'

req = request.Request(url, data=None, headers=user_agent)
with open('test.html', 'wb') as f:
    f.write(request.urlopen(req).read())

And get a real world interaction with a web page to see what headers your browser is reporting. And a hard copy 'test.html', to look at.

Camello · 07-20-2022, 12:36 PM

It's too late, I uninstalled it, it was too complicated for me because I also installed google-chrome (it doesn't have that problem with the translator) but it had others in the configuration, it didn't let me open the email, both made me lose a lot of time ...

I went other ways.

I am only commenting this so as not to leave your replies unanswered.

Anyway thank you very much for everything.

teckk · 07-20-2022, 01:11 PM

Welcome.

Thought that I had this in my bookmarks somewhere.
https://www.fincher.org/Utilities/Co...uageList.shtml