Google translate api browser

Install

npm install google-translate-api-browser

For cross origin requests it uses cors-anywhere. You can use public cors-anywhere server https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/ or set up your own. By default it does not use proxying.

Examples

For browser

import { translate } from "google-translate-api-browser";

translate("Je ne mangé pas six jours", { to: "en", corsUrl: "http://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/" })
  .then(res => {
    // I do not eat six days
    console.log(res.text)
  })
  .catch(err => {
    console.error(err);
  });

For node (commonjs)

You don't need to use CORS for node

const { translate } = require('google-translate-api-browser');

translate("Je ne mangé pas six jours", { to: "en" })
  .then(res => {
    // I do not eat six days
    console.log(res.text)
  })
  .catch(err => {
    console.error(err);
  });

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For node (esm)

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API

isSupported(lang: string): boolean

Verifies if the selected language is supported by Google Translate.

translate(text: string, options: Partial): Promise

text

The text to be translated

options

type TranslateOptions = {
  rpcids: string;
  from: LangKey;
  to: LangKey;
  hl: LangKey;
  tld: string;
  raw: boolean;
}

example

const options = {
  rpcids: 'MkEWBc',
  from: 'ua',
  to: 'en',
  hl: 'en',
  tld: 'com',
  raw: true,
}

returns

type TranslationResult = {
  text: string; // The translated text.
  pronunciation: string;
  from: {
    language: {
      didYouMean: boolean; // `true` if the API suggest a correction in the source language
      iso: string; // The code of the language that the API has recognized in the `text`
    };
    text: {
      autoCorrected: boolean; 
      value: string;
      didYouMean: string;
    }
  };
  raw?: any;
}

normaliseResponse(body: any, raw = false): TranslationResult

Formats the google translate response.

generateRequestUrl(text: string, options: Partial<Omit<TranslateOptions, 'raw'>>): string

Generates a url to google translate api.