"google translate" vs "translate api"

Asked 10/11, 2011 at 20:20 Answered 6/12, 2018 at 11:13

Solved google-translate google-translation-api

I hear that the Translate API will be charged for, but what exactly prevents us form using the free Google Translate service here for free ? Otherwise put, what are the limitations of the free service?

Inessential answered 10/11, 2011 at 20:20 Comment(1)

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this is a question for Google's technical support. – Scutter 27/8, 2015 at 19:0

According to the link below, nothing prevents you.

https://translate.googleapis.com/translate_a/single?client=gtx&sl=en&tl=es&dt=t&q=Hello

Set your requests content-type to application/json and it fixes the weird formatting, I found the uri pattern after bashing around the google websites for a while.

I wouldn't recommend translating the bible with it but I've done ~10k words this week without an issue.

If anyone finds another working client value I'd love to know.

Zandra answered 19/11, 2015 at 11:38 Comment(5)

You should also specify your encodings properly otherwise accents will be messed up. &ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 should be included in your URL and don't forget to set the WebClient to Encoding = Encoding.UTF8 – Aqueous 7/5, 2017 at 1:1

In 2019, I have been (temporarily ≈ 1-2h) blocked after no more than about 100 requests. Changing public IP works (for this I had to restart my modem). – Notecase 7/8, 2019 at 12:42

@Notecase thanks for the feedback, I've just tried this method again myself and was blocked after ~100 sequential requests in under a minute. During that time a HTML page with a ReCaptcha was being returned instead of the expected response. The requests began succeeding again after several minutes of no requests and without submitting the ReCaptcha. – Zandra 27/8, 2019 at 21:40

I have asked a question to better understand the difference between the different Google API but it hasn't attracted a lot of attention: #57397573 – Notecase 28/8, 2019 at 11:19

anyone has any idea how to prevent google not translating a part of a string i tried it with notranslate class and and translate=no but dosent works. like here

<p id="textField">You can translate the <span class="notranslate"  translate="no" > not this part</span> this by selecting a language in the select box.</p>

– Clinton 8/9, 2020 at 8:31

There is nothing stopping you from using the Google Translate site, other than accessibility. The public API gives you a much tighter integration than, say, trying to embed Google Translate into your site via a frame.

Puparium answered 10/11, 2011 at 20:27 Comment(6)

so what is stopping me from manually crafting some HTTP packets and sending them to Google Translate servers from any C++ app ? The results would be cleanly displayed in some custom UI.. – Inessential 10/11, 2011 at 20:44

Nothing, go for it. Just don't be surprised when Google quickly notices a pattern and blocks you. You surely aren't the first person to try it. The question you need to ask yourself: is the time you're going to spend hacking around their site really worth less than the $20 you could pay to use their API? Unless you can make the whole thing work in half an hour of work, I'd say you're cutting yourself short. – Puparium 10/11, 2011 at 21:3

how do they block me :D ? the IP varries, there is no account needed to use the service.. what is "the pattern" ? – Inessential 10/11, 2011 at 21:14

The headers on your packets, for a start. I could think of a handful of ways to detect if someone was abusing my free service, and I'll bet that the guys at Google are a hell of a lot smarter than me. Again, why not just pay the money? – Puparium 10/11, 2011 at 21:22

no way they could ban my app judging by just the headers.. wth! No, I am not going to attempt to abuse it, only to use it :) – Inessential 10/11, 2011 at 21:42

I tried using google translate with public proxies with no luck. Other people are using the same proxies, and Google knows. – Achilles 18/1, 2013 at 23:57

$translatedText = "प्रशांत कुमार सिंह";
$detectedSourceLanguage = "en";

$url ='https://www.google.com/inputtools/request?text='.urlencode($translatedText).'&ime=transliteration_hi_'.urlencode($detectedSourceLanguage);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYPORT,3128);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,0);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$output = json_decode($response);
$resultText = '';

if($output[0] == 'SUCCESS'){
 if(isset($output[1])){
  if(isset($output[1][0])){
   if(isset($output[1][0][1])){
    $resultText = $output[1][0][1][0];
   }
  }
 }
}
echo  $resultText;

Rorry answered 6/12, 2018 at 11:13 Comment(0)

Recommended topics

Hot tags