Console Translator

Installation

pip3 install cli_translate --user

Features

• Quick translation for text in clipboard

• Ability for replace text in clipboard with translation

• Ability for output with notify-send (useful with hotkey binding)

• Store all translated texts in sqlite database

• Google or Yandex translation clients

Configure Yandex Api key

The usage yandex translator require following steps

• go to https://translate.yandex.ru/developers/keys and register free api key

• define environment variable with name YANDEX_TRANSLATE_API_KEY and with api key as value Guide

Usage Examples

• itranslate -to es Clipboard text will be translated

• itranslate -to fr "Some text" "Some text" will be translated

• itranslate -to en -i Interactive text input mode

• itranslate -to en -p Clipboard text will be translated and replaced with translation

• itranslate --help See All available options

Tips and Tricks

• register bash/zsh aliases with most useful options; example `alias et="itranslate -to en -p -o -c yandex"

• save translation to file itranslate [options] > file.txt

• translate text from file itranslate [options] "$(cat /path/to_file.txt)"

• pipe result to another itranslate --raw "Hello World"|cowsay

Limitations

This utility is for personal use, not automated translations.

The volume of translated text lenght is limited per-request

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