09 June 2007
Translate your text using Google Api's
Here is how you can translate a Text using Google's "Unofficial" API's.
The URL for Google Translate is - http://www.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&ie=UTF8&text={0}&langpair={1}
- "text" is your input string which needs to be translated.
- langpair is the language pairs involved in the tranlsation. E.g. "ar|en" means translate from Arabic to English.
The result when you browse to the URL is a HTML page. You will have to do screen scraping to get your translated text.
Below is a C# function which translates, scrapes and gives you the result. I am using String.Substring function but you can use Regex too.
/// <summary>
/// Translate Text using Google Translate API's
/// Google URL - http://www.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&ie=UTF8&text={0}&langpair={1}
/// </summary>
/// <param name="input">Input string</param>
/// <param name="languagePair">2 letter Language Pair, delimited by "|".
/// E.g. "ar|en" language pair means to translate from Arabic to English</param>
/// <returns>Translated to String</returns>
public string TranslateText(
string input,
string languagePair)
{
string url = String.Format("http://www.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&ie=UTF8&text={0}&langpair={1}", input, languagePair);
WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
webClient.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
string result = webClient.DownloadString(url);
result = result.Substring(result.IndexOf("id=result_box") + 22, result.IndexOf("id=result_box") + 500);
result = result.Substring(0, result.IndexOf("</div"));
return result;
}
More details about this Unofficial Google Translation API can be found Here
