Google Translate from command line

translate(){ wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-en}" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/'; }

2010-03-08 03:15:48

Usage:translate <phrase> <source-language> <output-language> Example:translate hello en es
See this for a list of language codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

translate() { lng1="$1";lng2="$2";shift;shift; wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=${@// /+}&langpair=$lng1|$lng2" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/'; }

allow multiword translations

 

cmd=$( wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-en}" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/'; ); echo "$cmd"

2010-03-13 01:09:00

translate <phrase> <source-language> <output-language> works from command line

 

wget -U "Mozilla/5.0" -qO - "http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=t&text=translation+example&sl=auto&tl=fr" | sed 's/\[\[\[\"//' | cut -d \" -f 1

tl = target language (en, fr, de, hu, ...);
you can leave sl parameter as-is (autodetection works fine)

substitute "example" with desired string;

 

curl -s -A "Mozilla" "http://translate.google.com.br/translate_a/t?client=t&text=Hi+world&hl=pt-BR&sl=en&tl=pt&multires=1&ssel=0&tsel=0&sc=1" | awk -F'"' '{print $2}'

Translates a phrase from English to Portuguese

Translates a string from English to Portuguese by using google translator web service. Source: http://www.commandlinefu.com