can't use translation

[steermomo]

When i typing in translate windows,it has no response. I think that translate.google.cn isn't blocked in China. Just want to know whether it works well

[ivanpetrov16130]

@hakale , I have the same problem. Google services are working good. Russia, Ubuntu 15.10 x64.

[WuTianming]

I tried to run the translate script manually, and get an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./google_translate.py", line 53, in <module>
    if 'dict' in get_page.keys() and 'entry' in  get_page['dict'][0]:
AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'keys'

It seems the script cannot get translate results. I know that Google Translate API isn't available as a free service, you need to purchase it. The script is a little old. Maybe it DID some hack, but however it doesn't work now. I think you can write a script by yourself that uses other services like Bing Translate or Youdao Translate(for Chinese and English only). Baidu Translate is also good.

[WuTianming]

Hey guys, I made a simple Youdao translate script. The API Key is grabbed from https://github.com/felixonmars/ydcv, and you'd better get one by yourselves.

Preview:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python2
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from __future__ import unicode_literals
from __future__ import print_function
import re
import urllib
import urllib2
import json
import sys
from argparse import ArgumentParser
from subprocess import check_output
from time import sleep
from urllib import quote
from urllib2 import urlopen
import re
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

API = 'YouDaoCV'
API_KEY = '659600698'

def create_item(title, command, icon, subtext):
    print('[' + title + ']')
    print('command=' + command)
    print('icon=' + icon)
    print('subtext=' + subtext)

def print_explanation(data):
    result = ''
    _d = data

    query = _d['query']

    if 'basic' in _d:
        _b = _d['basic']
        for i in _b['explains']:
            create_item(i, 'copy', '', query)

    elif 'translation' in _d:
        for i in _d['translation']:
            create_item(i, 'copy', '', query)

    else:
        create_item('No related', '', '', 'Error')

def lookup_word(word):
    word = quote(word.encode('utf-8'))
    try:
        data = urlopen(
            'http://fanyi.youdao.com/openapi.do?keyfrom={0}&'
            'key={1}&type=data&doctype=json&version=1.2&q={2}'
            .format(API, API_KEY, word)).read().decode('utf-8')
    except IOError:
        create_item('Network is unavailable', '', '', 'Error')
        exit()
    else:
        print_explanation(json.loads(data))

query = sys.argv[1].split(' ')  # split the input into words. maybe not needed

for i in query:
    if i == u'':
        query.remove(i)         # remove empty strings

if len(query) != 1:             # translate the whole input string when there is only one word
    lookup_word(sys.argv[1])

for i in query:                 # get explanation of each word. maybe you don't need this
    lookup_word(i)

P.S. I'm just a python newbie and don't know much about python2. Please tell me if I made mistakes.

[WuTianming]

The code above is mainly grabbed from https://github.com/felixonmars/ydcv and I changed it a little for using with Mutate.

[WuTianming]

But note that you can use the API for 1000 times per hour only, but Mutate will run the script again every time you enter a letter to get results updated. That means, you can only type less than 1000 letters in an hour to translate using this script.

[azwarain]

How to make youdao translate from english to other language.

[WuTianming]

@azwarain seems not possible.

[samundra]

@azwarain @WuTianming Definitely we can do this, but we need to alter the existing API calls. This feature is not yet available in the mutate though.