Google Translate (Languages Configurable)

raguay.customct · September 28, 2015

For an interesting note, I just installed PHP 7.0 RC2 and the original script now works fine! With the standard PHP on a Mac, I could only get it to work with a VPS going to the states. Very Interesting....

rice.shawn · September 28, 2015

The workflow breaks also when installing another global php version (e.g. with homebrew). I had to fix the workflow with your proposed one-liner-fix.
PHP 5.6.13 (cli)
I have another question regarding your nice workflow: Is it possible to trigger the workflow with a hotkey? I've tried some combinations but I didn't get it done. My desired workflow would be: select some text -> press a shortcut -> fires up trans workflow with the selected text

The hotkey is a neat idea. I just added it to the workflow and push an update (1.3) to Packal.

Also, I rewrote getting / fetching mechanisms that should work with all versions. The configs did change a little bit, so you might have to reset them.

Jeroen · September 28, 2015

I love your workflow, yet I'm stuck with one question. Right now when you press enter, it copies the text to the clipboard. In many cases, I'm curious about the alternative translations. Would it be possible to open google translate in the browser with the picked languages so I can easily view the translations?

rice.shawn · October 1, 2015

I love your workflow, yet I'm stuck with one question. Right now when you press enter, it copies the text to the clipboard. In many cases, I'm curious about the alternative translations. Would it be possible to open google translate in the browser with the picked languages so I can easily view the translations?

Hm. The workflow needs to be redesigned (not necessarily completely rewritten) to accommodate this. I'll think of a way to make it happen and get back to you.

alfredappuser · October 2, 2015

The hotkey is a neat idea. I just added it to the workflow and push an update (1.3) to Packal.

Also, I rewrote getting / fetching mechanisms that should work with all versions. The configs did change a little bit, so you might have to reset them.

Thanks for updating!!!

For everyone else who has problems with the workflow after updating to v1.3:

Open filter.php

Delete the following code (line 91)

$trans = $alphred->get( $query, [ 'useragent' => 'alfredworkflow' ], 2419200, true );

and replace it with the following code

$ch = curl_init( $query );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'alfredworkflow' );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
$trans = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );

and you should be done.

rice.shawn · October 2, 2015

Thanks for updating!!!

For everyone else who has problems with the workflow after updating to v1.3:
Open filter.php
Delete the following code (line 91)
$trans = $alphred->get( $query, [ 'useragent' => 'alfredworkflow' ], 2419200, true );
and replace it with the following code
$ch = curl_init( $query );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'alfredworkflow' );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
$trans = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );
and you should be done.

Did you have problems with it? What were the errors? The Alphred model is nice because it will also cache the translations.

rice.shawn · October 2, 2015

Oh. Dammit. I used the wrong syntax for the user agent. Instead of useragent, it should be user_agent. I just posted a new version (1.3.1) that has the bug fix in it.

jhinden · October 3, 2015

Great workflow. Thanks!

Any plans to support extra features like 'speak', 'cyrillic>latin' etc. that are available on the google translate page itself?

rice.shawn · October 3, 2015

By "Cyrillic > latin" do you mean just transliterating the text? That should be easy to do without touching the Google API. As for speak, I'm not sure if that is possible. If you could help me figure out an API endpoint where I could get the sound file from, then it would be possible.

rice.shawn · October 3, 2015

Actually, I just figured out how to grab the sound files, so "listen" should be possible.

rice.shawn · October 3, 2015

Okay, so I just uploaded a new version (1.3.2) that implements the two new options:

(1) Press cmd + enter on a translation to open the Google Translate page in the browser.

(2) Press opt + enter on a translation to listen to the audio of the translation.

Note: audio translations are supported to about 100 characters according to what I found on the net, so it probably won't work well if you try to listen to more than that. Also, you can't change voices for the translations (they're just audio files that are downloaded from Google).

jhinden · October 3, 2015

Wow, amazing. The audio 'listen' is a great addition! Thanks, that's going to help a lot. Fun!

And, yeah transliteration would be nice as well.

Jeroen · October 5, 2015

Okay, so I just uploaded a new version (1.3.2) that implements the two new options:

(1) Press cmd + enter on a translation to open the Google Translate page in the browser.

(2) Press opt + enter on a translation to listen to the audio of the translation.

Note: audio translations are supported to about 100 characters according to what I found on the net, so it probably won't work well if you try to listen to more than that. Also, you can't change voices for the translations (they're just audio files that are downloaded from Google).

Sweet, this is awesome!

rice.shawn · October 5, 2015

Wow, amazing. The audio 'listen' is a great addition! Thanks, that's going to help a lot. Fun!

And, yeah transliteration would be nice as well.

Well, transliterating should be just as easy as having php run code as simple as:

$args = json_decode( $argv[1], true );
print iconv( mb_detect_encoding( $args['translation'] ), "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT", $args['translation']);

but it doesn't seem to be working so well. I keep getting some esoteric errors about characters not found in the charsets (of which they are a part), so there might be a bug in the iconv builds, which has happened before. I'll play around a bit more and see if I can figure out a way around the problem without having to write a transliteration map.

rice.shawn · October 8, 2015

It looks like Google may have changed the behavior of the API endpoint. Let me know if you run into problems. The debugger will probably say something like:

[STDERR: alfred.workflow.input.scriptfilter] [11:54:42][filter.php:103][ERROR] Request completely failed, and no cached data exists. cURL debug information follows:
[11:54:42][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error number: 22
[11:54:42][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error message: `The requested URL returned error: 503 Service Unavailable`.

If this error is widespread, then Google did change the API (or the API behavior).

xilopaint · October 10, 2015

The workflow works for me with the three default languages (greek, german and french). When I set new languages I get this error:

[STDERR: alfred.workflow.input.scriptfilter] [08:30:53][filter.php:103][ERROR] Request completely failed, and no cached data exists. cURL debug information follows:
[08:30:53][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error number: 22
[08:30:53][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error message: `The requested URL returned error: 503 Service Unavailable`.
[08:30:53][filter.php:103][ERROR] Request completely failed, and no cached data exists. cURL debug information follows:
[08:30:53][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error number: 22
[08:30:53][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error message: `The requested URL returned error: 503 Service Unavailable`.
[08:30:54][filter.php:103][ERROR] Request completely failed, and no cached data exists. cURL debug information follows:
[08:30:54][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error number: 22
[08:30:54][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error message: `The requested URL returned error: 503 Service Unavailable`.
[ERROR: alfred.workflow.input.scriptfilter] XML Parse Error 'The operation couldn’t be completed. (NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 4.)'. Row 1, Col 1: 'Document is empty' in XML:
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Edited June 22, 2019 by xilopaint

rice.shawn · October 10, 2015

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The workflow works for me with the three default languages (greek, german and french). When I set new languages I get this error:

It might just be that you're trying to translate strings that you already translated with the old ones. The newer version of the workflow caches the translations for some added speed, so it's probably just grabbing that information. I'm pretty sure that the unofficial API is dead, or, at the very least, I haven't figured out a way to get around it, and I haven't seen anyone else find a reliable way to do it either.

I did rewrite the workflow to use the Official (paid) translation API, but I haven't posted that anywhere. While it's cooler if it's free, using the API doesn't cost too much. It works out to $20 / 2 million characters, and you're just charged for what you use. I can post that version somewhere soon if people are interested.

Edited June 24, 2019 by deanishe
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rice.shawn · October 13, 2015

Okay, so if you look here: http://www.packal.org/workflow/translate-api, you'll find a new copy of this workflow that uses the paid translation API. It seems to work just fine with my tests. You'll have to get an API key from Google.

The workflow has a different bundleid, so it won't replace the old one, and the keyword for this one is just "tr".

I changed the behavior so that it outputs only one language at a time so that you don't pay for what you don't need. Also, the workflow is setup so that translations are cached for about a month, so if you keep translating the same word over and over, it won't actually hit the Google API after the first time.

Lastly, the "speak" action was taken out because that was also part of the unofficial API that is no longer working. I'll see if I can get that back in there sometime.

deanishe · October 13, 2015

FWIW, the API is cheap as chips.

I run scores of pages through it every month, and it costs a couple of euros at most.

xilopaint · October 20, 2015

Okay, so if you look here: http://www.packal.org/workflow/translate-api, you'll find a new copy of this workflow that uses the paid translation API. It seems to work just fine with my tests. You'll have to get an API key from Google.

The workflow has a different bundleid, so it won't replace the old one, and the keyword for this one is just "tr".

I changed the behavior so that it outputs only one language at a time so that you don't pay for what you don't need. Also, the workflow is setup so that translations are cached for about a month, so if you keep translating the same word over and over, it won't actually hit the Google API after the first time.

Lastly, the "speak" action was taken out because that was also part of the unofficial API that is no longer working. I'll see if I can get that back in there sometime.

The language code for Brazilian Portuguese is wrong (pt-BZ instead pt-BR).

Jeroen · October 20, 2015

Okay, so if you look here: http://www.packal.org/workflow/translate-api, you'll find a new copy of this workflow that uses the paid translation API. It seems to work just fine with my tests. You'll have to get an API key from Google.

The workflow has a different bundleid, so it won't replace the old one, and the keyword for this one is just "tr".

I changed the behavior so that it outputs only one language at a time so that you don't pay for what you don't need. Also, the workflow is setup so that translations are cached for about a month, so if you keep translating the same word over and over, it won't actually hit the Google API after the first time.

Lastly, the "speak" action was taken out because that was also part of the unofficial API that is no longer working. I'll see if I can get that back in there sometime.

Mmm, that's a shame, need to go through some hassle to get this api key. If someone doesn't mind me joining theirs for 5 phrases a week, let me know

mikedvzo · October 26, 2015

Behavior seemed to be erratic and the debug was throwing errors. I grabbed the latest and now it does not work at all.

Starting debug for 'Translate'

[sTDERR: alfred.workflow.input.scriptfilter] [23:02:19][filter.php:103][ERROR] Request completely failed, and no cached data exists. cURL debug information follows:

[23:02:19][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error number: 22

[23:02:19][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error message: `The requested URL returned error: 503 Service Unavailable`.

[23:02:20][filter.php:103][ERROR] Request completely failed, and no cached data exists. cURL debug information follows:

[23:02:20][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error number: 22

[23:02:20][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error message: `The requested URL returned error: 503 Service Unavailable`.

[23:02:20][filter.php:103][ERROR] Request completely failed, and no cached data exists. cURL debug information follows:

[23:02:20][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error number: 22

[23:02:20][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error message: `The requested URL returned error: 503 Service Unavailable`.

[23:02:21][filter.php:103][ERROR] Request completely failed, and no cached data exists. cURL debug information follows:

[23:02:21][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error number: 22

[23:02:21][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error message: `The requested URL returned error: 503 Service Unavailable`.

[23:02:21][filter.php:103][ERROR] Request completely failed, and no cached data exists. cURL debug information follows:

[23:02:21][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error number: 22

[23:02:21][filter.php:103][ERROR] cURL error message: `The requested URL returned error: 503 Service Unavailable`.

[ERROR: alfred.workflow.input.scriptfilter] XML Parse Error 'The operation couldn’t be completed. (NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 4.)'. Row (null), Col (null): 'Document is empty' in XML:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /Users/username/Dropbox/Sync/Alfred 2/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.ECA96D19-FE23-4E7B-ACCC-936A70338790/functions.php on line 22

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<items>

<subtitle>English: sit</subtitle>

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