Google Translate From The Command Line.

[justapeon]

./Google_translator "I am a hacker." en de

Ich bin ein Hacker.

$ ./Google_translator "I am a hacker." en ja

私はハッカーです。

Google_translator

#!/bin/bash
#// remove the previous line on a mac
if test -z $3; then
echo "Usage: $0 \"\" "
echo "Translates string \"\" from to "
echo "(CLI frontend to Google Translate)"
else
wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-$3}" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/';
fi
echo ""

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The following table contains a recent list of languages supported by Google Translate.

No. Language Name Native Language Name Code

1 Afrikaans Afrikaans af

2 Albanian Shqip sq

3 Arabic عربي ar

4 Armenian Հայերէն hy

5 Azerbaijani آذربایجان دیلی az

6 Basque Euskara eu

7 Belarusian Беларуская be

8 Bulgarian Български bg

9 Catalan Català ca

10 Chinese (Simplified) 中文简体 zh-CN

11 Chinese (Traditional) 中文繁體 zh-TW

12 Croatian Hrvatski hr

13 Czech Čeština cs

14 Danish Dansk da

15 Dutch Nederlands nl

16 English English en

17 Estonian Eesti keel et

18 Filipino Filipino tl

19 Finnish Suomi fi

20 French Français fr

21 Galician Galego gl

22 Georgian ქართული ka

23 German Deutsch de

24 Greek Ελληνικά el

25 Haitian Creole Kreyòl ayisyen ht

26 Hebrew עברית iw

27 Hindi हिन्दी hi

28 Hungarian Magyar hu

29 Icelandic Íslenska is

30 Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia id

31 Irish Gaeilge ga

32 Italian Italiano it

33 Japanese 日本語 ja

34 Korean 한국어 ko

35 Latvian Latviešu lv

36 Lithuanian Lietuvių kalba lt

37 Macedonian Македонски mk

38 Malay Malay ms

39 Maltese Malti mt

40 Norwegian Norsk no

41 Persian فارسی fa

42 Polish Polski pl

43 Portuguese Português pt

44 Romanian Română ro

45 Russian Русский ru

46 Serbian Српски sr

47 Slovak Slovenčina sk

48 Slovenian Slovensko sl

49 Spanish Español es

50 Swahili Kiswahili sw

51 Swedish Svenska sv

52 Thai ไทย th

53 Turkish Türkçe tr

54 Ukrainian Українська uk

55 Urdu اردو ur

56 Vietnamese Tiếng Việt vi

57 Welsh Cymraeg cy

58 Yiddish ייִדיש yi

Edited October 24, 2011 by justapeon