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Looking for a bash/sh script to translate a word with Internet (no package to install

Hello,

I would be glad if someone would have any ideas to translate a word with Internet (no package to install)?

Simple wget would be great :)

here some packages
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-359574.html

Many thanks
Happy Tux

Hello,

From what language to what language are you looking to translate?

Cheers,

Josh

Never mind my last post, you just gave me a project ;)

-Josh

Quote:

Originally Posted by corp769 (Post 4438139)

Never mind my last post, you just gave me a project ;)

-Josh

I like coding too... I never stop kind of doing sh (for cross platform)
( I usually try to avoid bash, and prefer sh for wider compatibility)

Well before I decide to actually do it, I dug around a bit, and came across this - https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/twandgtw/
What do you think of that?

I found this on the Arch forums; it basically sends off $1 to Google Translate, GT translates the phrase/word/whatever (from the language you specify as $2; autodetect otherwise), then it snips out the actual translated word(s) from the wget'd page.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-en}" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/';

The post I got it from

Hope this helps. :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrCode (Post 4438150)

Code:

#!/bin/bash

wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-en}" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/';

The post I got it from

Hope this helps. :D

So I'm going to be "that guy" and one up you - http://www.commandlinefu.com/command...-in-mp3-format
Text to speech! :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by corp769 (Post 4438155)

So I'm going to be "that guy" and one up you - http://www.commandlinefu.com/command...-in-mp3-format
Text to speech! :D

thanks. I remember i saw once that green page ...

We gotta make a $1, $2, ... for making our own script in an *.sh
Ipgeo.sh indeed rocks, and it says how to use it ;) nice job

Well what exactly do you want in this script?

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrCode (Post 4438150)

Code:

#!/bin/bash

wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-en}" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/';

I think I read that Google is planning on removing the Google Translate API.

I've improved the little "Google Translator script" thingy…it's in my LQ blog. :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrCode (Post 4438262)

I've improved the little "Google Translator script" thingy…it's in my LQ blog. :D

Hmmm... I'm going to check out how many languages google supports. Maybe I can add some to your code? :p

Quote:

Maybe I can add some to your code?

Err…how exactly do you mean? Do you mean somehow adding language support on the server end, or do you just mean giving some hints as to what languages are available (and maybe forcibly restricting the options to those languages)?

Anyway, as to your "one-up": you can just pipe the output of my blog script to espeak and have it speak out the translation. :D :p

Actually, I thought of something else dude....

Code:

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" = "--languages" ]; then

        echo ""

        echo "Supported languages:"

        echo ""

        echo "English - EN              Afrikaans - AF"

        echo "Albanian - SQ            Arabic - AR"

        echo "Armenian - HY            Azerbaijani - AZ"

        echo "Basque - EU              Belarusian - BE"

        echo "Bengali - BN              Bulgarian - BG"

        echo "Catalan - CA              Chinese - ZH"

        echo "Croatian - HR            Czech - CS"

        echo "Danish - DA              Dutch - NL"

        echo "Estonian - ET            Filipino - FIL (NOT TESTED)"

        echo "Finnish - FI              French - FR"

        echo "Galician - GL            Georgian - KA"

        echo "German - DE              Greek - EL"

        echo "Gujarati - GU            Haitian Creole - HT"

        echo "Hebrew - IW              Hindi - HI"

        echo "Hungarian - HU            Icelandic - IS"

        echo "Indonesian - IN          Irish - GA"

        echo "Italian - IT              Japanese - JA"

        echo "Kannada - KN              Korean - KO"

        echo "Latin - LA                Latvian - LV"

        echo "Lithuanian - LT          Macedonian - MK"

        echo "Malay - MS                Maltese - MT"

        echo "Norwegian - NO            Persian - FA"

        echo "Polish - PL              Portuguese - PT"

        echo "Romanian - RO            Russian - RU"

        echo "Serbian - SR              Slovak - SK"

        echo "Slovenian - SL            Spanish - ES"

        echo "Swahili - SW              Swedish - SV"

        echo "Tamil - TA                Telugu - TE"

        echo "Thai - TH                Turkish - TR"

        echo "Ukrainian - UK            Urdu - UR"

        echo "Vietnamese - VI          Welsh - CY"

        echo "Yiddish - JI"

        echo ""

        exit

elif [ "$1" = "" -o "$2" = "" -o "$3" = "" ]; then

        echo "Usage: $0 \"<str>\" <lang1> <lang2>"

        echo "Translates string \"<str>\" from <lang1> to <lang2>"

        echo "(CLI frontend to Google Translate)"

        echo "Type $0 --languages for a list of supported languages."

        exit

else

        wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-$3}" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/';

fi

Now you have the full list of supported languages on google's end.....

Damn you and your ideas....

Code:



#!/bin/bash

text1=""

if [ "$1" = "--languages" ]; then

        echo ""

        echo "Supported languages:"

        echo ""

        echo "English - EN                Afrikaans - AF"

        echo "Albanian - SQ                Arabic - AR"

        echo "Armenian - HY                Azerbaijani - AZ"

        echo "Basque - EU                Belarusian - BE"

        echo "Bengali - BN                Bulgarian - BG"

        echo "Catalan - CA                Chinese - ZH"

        echo "Croatian - HR                Czech - CS"

        echo "Danish - DA                Dutch - NL"

        echo "Estonian - ET                Filipino - FIL (NOT TESTED)"

        echo "Finnish - FI                French - FR"

        echo "Galician - GL                Georgian - KA"

        echo "German - DE                Greek - EL"

        echo "Gujarati - GU                Haitian Creole - HT"

        echo "Hebrew - IW                Hindi - HI"

        echo "Hungarian - HU                Icelandic - IS"

        echo "Indonesian - IN                Irish - GA"

        echo "Italian - IT                Japanese - JA"

        echo "Kannada - KN                Korean - KO"

        echo "Latin - LA                Latvian - LV"

        echo "Lithuanian - LT                Macedonian - MK"

        echo "Malay - MS                Maltese - MT"

        echo "Norwegian - NO                Persian - FA"

        echo "Polish - PL                Portuguese - PT"

        echo "Romanian - RO                Russian - RU"

        echo "Serbian - SR                Slovak - SK"

        echo "Slovenian - SL                Spanish - ES"

        echo "Swahili - SW                Swedish - SV"

        echo "Tamil - TA                Telugu - TE"

        echo "Thai - TH                Turkish - TR"

        echo "Ukrainian - UK                Urdu - UR"

        echo "Vietnamese - VI                Welsh - CY"

        echo "Yiddish - JI"

        echo ""

        exit

elif [ "$1" = "" -o "$2" = "" -o "$3" = "" ]; then

        echo "Usage: $0 \"<str>\" <lang1> <lang2>"

        echo "Translates string \"<str>\" from <lang1> to <lang2>"

        echo "(CLI frontend to Google Translate)"

        echo "Type $0 --languages for a list of supported languages."

        exit

else

        text1=`wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-$3}" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/';`

        echo ""

        echo "Original text: $1"

        echo "Converted text: $text1"

        echo ""

        read -p "Would you like the converted text spoken to you? [Yy/Nn]" answer

        if [ $answer = "Y" -o $answer = "y" ]; then

                espeak -v $3+f2 "$text1"

        fi

fi

I'm done until you think of something else to add :p