google-trans-cn-curl.sh

google-trans-cn-curl.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Filename: google-trans-cn-curl.sh
# Program: Access https://translate.google.cn/ from command line by 'curl(1)'
# Usage: ./google-trans-cn-curl.sh <text>
#

text="$1"
if [[ -z "$text" ]]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 <word>"
    exit 1
fi

# Detect language (English or Chinese) by the first character's ASCII code, like isalpha(3)
head=${text:0:1}
if [[ "$head" = "a" ]] || [[ "$head" = 'z' ]] || [[ "$head" > "a" ]] && [[ "$head" < "z" ]]; then
    sl="en"                         # Source Language code
    tl="zh-CN"                      # Translation language code
elif [[ "$head" = "A" ]] || [[ "$head" = 'Z' ]] || [[ "$head" > "A" ]] && [[ "$head" < "Z" ]]; then
    sl="en"                         # Source Language code
    tl="zh-CN"                      # Translation language code
else                            # Detect Chinese, translate to English
    sl="zh-CN"
    tl="en"
fi

# Encode URL
text=${text/ /+}

translation=$(curl --silent \
                   "http://translate.google.cn/translate_a/t?client=t&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sl=${sl}&tl=${tl}&text=${text}" -H \
                   'accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch' -H \
                   'accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.8,zh-CN;q=0.6,zh;q=0.4,zh-TW;q=0.2' -H \
                   'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36' -H \
                   'accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8' -H \
                   'x-client-data: CI22yQEIorbJAQiptskBCMS2yQEI8YjKAQjFlMoB' --compressed |
                     sed 's/[^"]*"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/')
echo "$text => $translation"