python script to use google translation API

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python script to use google translation API

set your own apikey in credentials.py.

google_apikey = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"

then test it.

$ python google_translation_api.py
['こんにちは', '東京']
['Hello', 'Tokyo']

finally use function in your script

from google_translation_api import translate

translate(['こんにちは', '東京'])

credentials.py

google_apikey = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"

google_translation_api.py

from credentials import google_apikey
import requests


def translate(texts):
    url = "https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2"
    headers = {'X-Goog-Api-Key': google_apikey, }
    data = {'q': texts, 'target': 'en', }
    json = requests.post(url, data=data, headers=headers).json()
    translated_texts = [x['translatedText']
                        for x in json['data']['translations']]
    return translated_texts


if __name__ == '__main__':
    test_texts = ['こんにちは', '東京']
    print(test_texts)
    print(translate(test_texts))