This directory contains samples for Google Translate API. With Google Translate API, you can dynamically translate text between thousands of language pairs.
Authentication for this service is done via an API Key. To obtain an API Key:
- Open the `Cloud Platform Console`_
- Make sure that billing is enabled for your project.
- From the Credentials page, create a new API Key or use an existing one for your project.
Install pip and virtualenv if you do not already have them.
Create a virtualenv. Samples are compatible with Python 2.7 and 3.4+.
$ virtualenv env $ source env/bin/activateInstall the dependencies needed to run the samples.
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
To run this sample:
$ python quickstart.pyTo run this sample:
$ python snippets.py
usage: snippets.py [-h]
api_key
{detect-language,list-languages,list-languages-with-target,translate-text}
...
This application demonstrates how to perform basic operations with the
Google Cloud Translate API
For more information, the documentation at
https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs.
positional arguments:
api_key Your API key.
{detect-language,list-languages,list-languages-with-target,translate-text}
detect-language Detects the text's language.
list-languages Lists all available languages.
list-languages-with-target
Lists all available languages and localizes them to
the target language. Target must be an ISO 639-1
language code. See https://g.co/cloud/translate/v2
/translate-reference#supported_languages
translate-text Translates text into the target language. Target must
be an ISO 639-1 language code. See
https://g.co/cloud/translate/v2/translate-
reference#supported_languages
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exitThis sample uses the `Google Cloud Client Library for Python`_. You can read the documentation for more details on API usage and use GitHub to `browse the source`_ and `report issues`_.