youdao-tr-free

Youdao translate for free -- local cache and throttling (averag 1.5 calls/s, first 1000 calls exempted). Let's hope it lasts.

Limitation

Maximum of 50 characters per query -- you'll have to do some processing if you want to handle longer text.

Installation

pip install youdao-tr-free

or

• Install (pip or whatever) necessary requirements, e.g. pip install requests_cache`` or pip install -r requirements.txt```
• Drop the file youdao_tr.py in any folder in your PYTHONPATH (check with import sys; print(sys.path)
• or clone the repo (e.g., git clone https://github.com/ffreemt/youdao-tr-free.git or download https://github.com/ffreemt/youdao-tr-free/archive/master.zip and unzip) and change to the youdao-tr-free folder and do a python setup.py develop

Usage

from youdao_tr import youdao_tr
print(youdao_tr('hello world'))  # ->'你好，世界'
print(youdao_tr('hello world', to_lang='de'))  # ->'Hallo Welt'
print(youdao_tr('hello world', to_lang='fr'))  # ->'Bonjour le monde'
print(youdao_tr('hello world', to_lang='ja'))  # ->'こんにちは世界'

Consult the official website for language pairs supported.

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to everyone whose code was used