Google Translation API?

freebs

Does anyone know how to use the current version of Google's language translation API? I would love to get some sample code... I do know it's a paid service now, so the old example from the original forum no longer applies and the API documentation is a little too Java-ey for me right now.

dimkir

To get you started, looks like what you have to do is:

a) get application key from google

b) now you should be able to do:

String url = "https" + ":" + "//"; 
// i have to glue this strings like this
// because if i write it normally processing forum will convert it to link and it will look messy.
url += "/language/translate/v2?key=INSERT-YOUR-KEY&q=hello%20world&source=en&target=de";
String[] googleResponse = loadStrings(url);

if ( googleResponse != null){
for(String line: googleResponse){
    println(line); // this will print raw JSON reply from google server
}
}
else{
   println("Google replied with empty response");
}

later you need to glue together into one string googleResponse array and parse it with JSON.

freebs

Thanks Dimkir, I'm still new to the 'Processing way' and wasn't sure how to inject html requests (or indeed whether I had to at all). I'll give it a try and post back my results.