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

Xeratul · 08-09-2011, 03:39 PM

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

corp769 · 08-09-2011, 03:55 PM

Hello,

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

Cheers,

Josh

corp769 · 08-09-2011, 04:02 PM

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

-Josh

Xeratul · 08-09-2011, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corp769

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)

corp769 · 08-09-2011, 04:17 PM

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?

MrCode · 08-09-2011, 04:22 PM

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.

corp769 · 08-09-2011, 04:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrCode

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.

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

Xeratul · 08-09-2011, 04:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corp769

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

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

corp769 · 08-09-2011, 04:51 PM

Well what exactly do you want in this script?

MTK358 · 08-09-2011, 05:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrCode

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/';

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

MrCode · 08-09-2011, 07:26 PM

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

corp769 · 08-09-2011, 07:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrCode

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

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

MrCode · 08-09-2011, 08:11 PM

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.

corp769 · 08-09-2011, 08:25 PM

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.....

corp769 · 08-09-2011, 08:36 PM

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