# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import re
import sys
import urllib
import simplejson
baseUrl = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate"
def getSplits(text,splitLength=4500):
'''
Translate Api has a limit on length of text(4500 characters) that can be translated at once,
'''
return (text[index:index+splitLength] for index in xrange(0,len(text),splitLength))
def translate(text,src='', to='en'):
'''
A Python Wrapper for Google AJAX Language API:
* Uses Google Language Detection, in cases source language is not provided with the source text
* Splits up text if it's longer then 4500 characters, as a limit put up by the API
'''
params = ({'langpair': '%s|%s' % (src, to),
'v': '1.0'
})
retText=''
for text in getSplits(text):
params['q'] = text
resp = simplejson.load(urllib.urlopen('%s' % (baseUrl), data = urllib.urlencode(params)))
try:
retText += resp['responseData']['translatedText']
except:
raise
return retText
def test():
msg = " Write something You want to be translated to English,\n"\
" Enter ctrl+c to exit"
print msg
while True:
text = raw_input('#> ')
retText = translate(text)
print retText
if __name__=='__main__':
try:
test()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print "\n"
sys.exit(0)
