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Google Translate API

A Node.JS library to consume Google Translate for free.

GitHub release Dependencies Known Vulnerabilities license

Feature Highlights

  • Automatically detect source language
  • Automatic spelling corrections
  • Automatic language correction
  • Fast and reliable

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Installation

# Stable version, from npm repository
npm install --save @iamtraction/google-translate

# Latest version, from GitHub repository
npm install --save iamtraction/google-translate

Usage

// If you've installed from npm, do:
const translate = require('@iamtraction/google-translate');

// If you've installed from GitHub, do:
const translate = require('google-translate');

Method: translate(text, options)

translate(text, options).then(console.log).catch(console.error);
Parameter Type Optional Default Description
text String No - The text you want to translate.
options Object - - The options for translating.
options.from String Yes 'auto' The language name/ISO 639-1 code to translate from. If none is given, it will auto detect the source language.
options.to String Yes 'en' The language name/ISO 639-1 code to translate to. If none is given, it will translate to English.
options.raw Boolean Yes false If true, it will return the raw output that was received from Google Translate.

Returns: Promise<Object>

Response Object:

Key Type Description
text String The translated text.
from Object -
from.language Object -
from.language.didYouMean Boolean Whether or not the API suggest a correction in the source language.
from.language.iso String The ISO 639-1 code of the language that the API has recognized in the text.
from.text Object -
from.text.autoCorrected Boolean Whether or not the API has auto corrected the original text.
from.text.value String The auto corrected text or the text with suggested corrections. Only returned if from.text.autoCorrected or from.text.didYouMean is true.
from.text.didYouMean Boolean Wherether or not the API has suggested corrections to the text
raw String The raw response from Google Translate servers. Only returned if options.raw is true in the request options.

Examples

From automatic language detection to English:

translate('Tu es incroyable!', { to: 'en' }).then(res => {
  console.log(res.text); // OUTPUT: You are amazing!
}).catch(err => {
  console.error(err);
});

From English to French, with a typo:

translate('Thank you', { from: 'en', to: 'fr' }).then(res => {
  console.log(res.text); // OUTPUT: Je vous remercie
  console.log(res.from.autoCorrected); // OUTPUT: true
  console.log(res.from.text.value); // OUTPUT: [Thank] you
  console.log(res.from.text.didYouMean); // OUTPUT: false
}).catch(err => {
  console.error(err);
});

Sometimes Google Translate won't auto correct:

translate('Thank you', { from: 'en', to: 'fr' }).then(res => {
  console.log(res.text); // OUTPUT: ''
  console.log(res.from.autoCorrected); // OUTPUT: false
  console.log(res.from.text.value); // OUTPUT: [Thank] you
  console.log(res.from.text.didYouMean); // OUTPUT: true
}).catch(err => {
  console.error(err);
});

Extras

If you liked this project, please give it a ⭐ in GitHub.

Credits to matheuss for writing the original version of this library. I rewrote this, with improvements and without using many external libraries, as his library was not actively developed and had vulnerabilities.