Python Google translator

last modified January 29, 2024

Python Google translator tutorial shows how to translate text in Python with googletrans module.

Python googletrans is a module to translate text. It uses the Google Translate Ajax API to detect langauges and translate text.

Python googletrans list languages

In the first example, we list supported languages.

languages.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import googletrans

print(googletrans.LANGUAGES)

The program lists all supported languages in a Python dictionary.

import googletrans

We import the googletrans module.

print(googletrans.LANGUAGES)

We print the googletrans.LANGUAGES variable.

$ languages.py {‘af’: ‘afrikaans’, ‘sq’: ‘albanian’, ‘am’: ‘amharic’, ‘ar’: ‘arabic’, ‘hy’: ‘armenian’, ‘az’: ‘azerbaijani’, ’eu’: ‘basque’, ‘be’: ‘belarusian’, ‘bn’: ‘bengali’, ‘bs’: ‘bosnian’, ‘bg’: ‘bulgarian’, ‘ca’: ‘catalan’, ‘ceb’: ‘cebuano’, ’ny’: ‘chichewa’, ‘zh-cn’: ‘chinese (simplified)’, ‘zh-tw’: ‘chinese (traditional)’, ‘co’: ‘corsican’, ‘hr’: ‘croatian’, ‘cs’: ‘czech’, ‘da’: ‘danish’, … }

In the output, we can see the supported languages.

Python googletrans detect langauges

The googletrans can be used to detect languages.

detecting.py

#!/usr/bin/python

from googletrans import Translator

text1 = ’’’ A Római Birodalom (latinul Imperium Romanum) az ókori Róma által létrehozott államalakulat volt a Földközi-tenger medencéjében ’’’

text2 = ’’’ Vysoké Tatry sú najvyššie pohorie na Slovensku a v Poľsku a sú zároveň jediným horstvom v týchto štátoch s alpským charakterom. ’’’

translator = Translator()

dt1 = translator.detect(text1) print(dt1)

dt2 = translator.detect(text2) print(dt2)

In the examples, we have two different texts. We use the detect method to determine the lanugage of the text.

from googletrans import Translator

We import the Translator, which is used to do translations.

text1 = ’’’ A Római Birodalom (latinul Imperium Romanum) az ókori Róma által létrehozott államalakulat volt a Földközi-tenger medencéjében ’’’

text2 = ’’’ Vysoké Tatry sú najvyššie pohorie na Slovensku a v Poľsku a sú zároveň jediným horstvom v týchto štátoch s alpským charakterom. ’’’

These are the two texts to be translated. The first is Hungarian, the second Slovak.

translator = Translator()

An instance of the Translator is created.

dt1 = translator.detect(text1) print(dt1)

We determine the language of the text with detect and print the result to the console. The method prints the language and the confidence value, which is the probability of the correct guess of the language.

$ ./detecting.py Detected(lang=hu, confidence=1.0) Detected(lang=sk, confidence=1.0)

The two languages were correctly detected.

Python googletrans simple translation

The translation is done with the Translator’s translate method.

simple.py

#!/usr/bin/python

from googletrans import Translator

translator = Translator() translated = translator.translate(‘Бороди́нское сраже́ние’)

print(translated.text)

If we do not specify the source and the destination languages, googletrans tries to detect the language and translates it into English.

translated = translator.translate(‘Бороди́нское сраже́ние’)

We translate a Russian text. We get a tranlated object.

print(translated.text)

To get the translation, we print the text field of the translated object.

$ ./simple.py Battle of Borodino

The source and destination languages

In the following example, we specify the source and the destination languages.

source_dest.py

#!/usr/bin/python

from googletrans import Translator

translator = Translator()

translated = translator.translate(‘svízelná situace’, src=‘cs’, dest=‘hu’)

print(translated.text)

The example translates a Czech text into Hungarian.

translated = translator.translate(‘svízelná situace’, src=‘cs’, dest=‘hu’)

The source language is specified with the src option and the destination with the dest option.

$ ./source_dest.py bizonytalan helyzetben

Python googletrans translate list

We can translate a list of texts.

translate_list.py

#!/usr/bin/python

from googletrans import Translator

translator = Translator()

data = [‘Dobrý deň’, ‘majestátny orol’, ‘krehká dohoda’]

translated = translator.translate(data, src=‘sk’, dest=‘en’)

for trans in translated: print(f’{trans.origin} -> {trans.text}’)

In the example, we translate three text values in a Python list.

$ ./translate_list.py Dobrý deň -> Good day majestátny orol -> majestic eagle krehká dohoda -> fragile agreement

Source

Python Googletrans documentation

In this article we have worked with the Python Google translator.

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