Use Google translate to translate a yml file from one language to generate a new one for a different language

translator.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

if ARGV.size != 2
  puts "Usage: #{$0} <from_language> <to_language>"
  exit -1
end

require 'rubygems'
require 'ya2yaml'   # this gem is needed for this to work!
require 'yaml'
require 'json'
require 'uri'

TRANSLATIONS_TABLE = {:"ja-JP" => :ja}

def translate(string)
  command = <<-EOF
  curl -s -A "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0" "http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=t&text=#{URI.escape(string)}&hl=#{@from_language}&sl=auto&tl=#{@googles_to_language}&multires=1&prev=conf&psl=auto&ptl=#{@from_language}&otf=1&it=sel.7123%2Ctgtd.3099&ssel=0&tsel=4&uptl=#{@googles_to_language}&sc=1"
  EOF
  command.strip!
  res = `#{command}`.gsub!(/,+/, ",")
  JSON.parse(res).first.first.first.strip
end

def process(hash)
  hash.inject({}) do |h, pair|
    key, value = pair
    h[key] = value.kind_of?(Hash) ? process(value) : translate(value)
    h
  end
end

@from_language = ARGV[0].to_sym
@users_to_language = ARGV[1].to_sym
@googles_to_language = TRANSLATIONS_TABLE[@users_to_language] || @users_to_language

directory = "config/locales/"
hash = YAML.load_file("#{directory}#{@from_language}.yml")[@from_language.to_s]
result = process(hash)

File.open("#{directory}#{@users_to_language}.yml", 'w') do |out|
  out.write({@users_to_language.to_s => result}.ya2yaml)
end

+1. The one change that you need to make is in line 22

return the string if res is nil (sometimes you'll get that based on what you're passing in)

This would be the new translate method

def translate(string)
command = <<-EOF
curl -s -A "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0" "http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=t&text=#{URI.escape(string)}&hl=#{@from_language}&sl=auto&tl=#{@googles_to_language}&multires=1&prev=conf&psl=auto&ptl=#{@from_language}&otf=1&it=sel.7123%2Ctgtd.3099&ssel=0&tsel=4&uptl=#{@googles_to_language}&sc=1"
EOF
command.strip!
res = #{command}.gsub!(/,+/, ",")
return string if res.nil?
JSON.parse(res).first.first.first.strip
end

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Hello can any help me i was trying to run this code but got error 403, from url call, your client does not have permission

FYI: This gist no longer works. I was bummed about that, so I wrote this: https://github.com/midwire/tr4n5l4te