alfred-translate Workflow (Researching)

Google translate for Alfer Workflow

Note 1: I am just looking for a new way to get translations done with Alfred since the last workflow stoped working. If you want to give a hand, please leave an issue.

Note 2: I have noticed when calling the request to the google api, they detected many submissions and they block for a moment my IP.

Todo:

• [ ] Get the correct query
• [ ] Multilanguage
• [ ] Pack it on an alfred workflow

Documentation

• sl - source language code (auto for autodetection)
• tl - translation language
• q - source text / word
• ie - input encoding (a guess)
• oe - output encoding (a guess)
• dt - may be included more than once and specifies what to return in the reply.

Here are some values for dt. If the value is set, the following data will be returned:

• t - translation of source text
• at - alternate translations
• rm - transcription / transliteration of source and translated texts
• bd - dictionary, in case source text is one word (you get translations with articles, reverse translations, etc.)
• md - definitions of source text, if it's one word
• ss - synonyms of source text, if it's one word
• ex - examples
• rw - See also list.

• dj - Json response with names. (dj=1)

• client t probably represents the standalone google translate web app (as opposed to a mobile app, or the widget that pops up if you google search "translate")

• sl is source language

• tl is translate language (the language you want to translate into)

• srcrom seems to be present when the source text has no spelling suggestions

Valid request

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

?client=gtx&sl="+ sourceLang + "&tl=" + targetLang + "&dt=t&q=" + encodeURI(sourceText)

From stack overflow

https://translate.googleapis.com/translate_a/single?client=gtx&sl=en&tl=fr&dt=t&q=father&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 returns this json:

json [ [[ "père", "father", null, null,1]], null, "en" ] While this https://clients5.google.com/translate_a/t?client=dict-chrome-ex&sl=en&tl=fr&dt=t&q=father returns this json:

json { "sentences":[ { "trans":"père", "orig":"father", "backend":1 }, { "src_translit":"ˈfäT͟Hər" } ], "dict":[ { "pos":"noun", "terms":[ "père" ], "entry":[ { "word":"père", "reverse_translation":[ "father", "dad", "parent", "papa" ], "score":0.70910621, "previous_word":"le", "gender":1 } ], "base_form":"father", "pos_enum":1 }, { "pos":"verb", "terms":[ "engendrer", "concevoir" ], "entry":[ { "word":"engendrer", "reverse_translation":[ "generate", "engender", "give rise to", "beget", "breed", "father" ], "synset_id":[ 52561 ], "score":0.00017133754 }, { "word":"concevoir", "reverse_translation":[ "design", "conceive", "devise", "plan", "form", "father" ], "synset_id":[ 52561 ], "score":4.8327973e-05 } ], "base_form":"father", "pos_enum":2 } ], "src":"en", "alternative_translations":[ { "src_phrase":"father", "alternative":[ { "word_postproc":"père", "score":1000, "has_preceding_space":true, "attach_to_next_token":false } ], "srcunicodeoffsets":[ { "begin":0, "end":6 } ], "raw_src_segment":"father", "start_pos":0, "end_pos":0 } ], "confidence":1, "ld_result":{ "srclangs":[ "en" ], "srclangs_confidences":[ 1 ], "extended_srclangs":[ "en" ] }, "query_inflections":[ { "written_form":"father", "features":{ "number":2 } }, { "written_form":"fathers", "features":{ "number":1 } } ], "target_inflections":[ { "written_form":"père", "features":{ "gender":1, "number":2 } }, { "written_form":"pères", "features":{ "gender":1, "number":1 } }, { "written_form":"père", "features":{ "number":2 } }, { "written_form":"pères", "features":{ "number":1 } } ] }

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• Irish ga
• Albanian sq
• Italian it
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• Yiddish yi