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Python script that invokes Google translation, depending on `requests` library.
import json
import sys
import requests
tl, query = sys.argv[1:]
sl = 'auto'
ua = ('Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) '
'Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0')
query = query.strip()
# json response from Google transaltion server
jr = requests.get(
'https://translate.googleapis.com/translate_a/single',
params={
'client': 'gtx',
'sl': sl,
'tl': tl,
'dt': 't',
'q': query,
},
headers={
'user-agent': ua,
}).json()
# the translation result
tr = ''.join(x[0] for x in jr[0])
print(tr)
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