stranslate

Google translate free and unlimited access, stranslate because gtranslate is taken

Install it

pip install itranslate

# or pip install git+https://github.com/ffreemt/google-itranslate
# or use poetry
# poetry add itranslate
# poetry add git+https://github.com/ffreemt/google-itranslate

# to upgrade:
pip install itranslate -U

# or poetry add itranslate@latest

Use it

The quality from this service is not as good as web google translate. There is nothing we can do about it.

It's unclear whether your ip will be blocked if you relentlessly use the service. Please feedback should you find out any information.

from itranslate import itranslate as itrans

itrans("test this and that")  # '测试这一点'

# new lines are preserved, tabs are not
itrans("test this \n\nand test that \t and so on")
# '测试这一点\n\n并测试这一点等等'

itrans("test this and that", to_lang="de")  # 'Testen Sie das und das'
itrans("test this and that", to_lang="ja")  # 'これとそれをテストします'

For those who cannot access google translate, a temporary solution has been implemented. Set cf (it stands for cloudflare) to True, e.g.,

itrans("test this and that", to_lang="de", cf=True) 

Text longer than 5000 characters will be trimmed to 5000. Hence for a long document, you may try something like the following or similar.

from textwrap import wrap
from itranslate import itranslate as itrans

long_doc = """ long long text formatted with \n and so on"""
tr_doc = " ".join([itrans(elm) for elm in wrap(long_doc,
    width=5000,
    break_long_words=False,
    break_on_hyphens=False,
    drop_whitespace=False,
    replace_whitespace=False,
)])

async version: atranslate

If you feel so inclined, you may use the async version of itranslate atranslate:

import asyncio
from itranslate import atranslate as atrans

texts = ["test this", "test that"]
coros = [atrans(elm) for elm in texts]

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()

trtexts = loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.gather(*coros))

print(trtexts)
# ['测试这一点', '测试']

Proxy support

itrans("test this and that", proxies="http://localhost:8030")

or

proxies = {
    "http": "http://localhost:8030",
    "https": "http://localhost:8031",
}
itrans("test this and that\n another test", proxies=proxies)

itranslate uses httpx to fetch contents and inherits httpx's proxy mechanism. Check https://www.python-httpx.org/advanced/ for other ways of setting up proxies.

Other google translate related repos

Much more sophisticated than itranslate

• https://github.com/ssut/py-googletrans

• https://github.com/nidhaloff/deep-translator

• https://github.com/mouuff/mtranslate

• https://github.com/lushan88a/google_trans_new

• https://github.com/Animenosekai/translate

Disclaimer

google-stranslate makes use of a translate interface floating around the net and is for study and research purpose only. The interface may become invalid without notice, which would of course render the package totally unusable.