This directory contains samples for Google Translation API. With Google Translation API, you can dynamically translate text between thousands of language pairs.
Authentication is typically done through Application Default Credentials, which means you do not have to change the code to authenticate as long as your environment has credentials. You have a few options for setting up authentication:
When running locally, use the Google Cloud SDK
gcloud auth application-default login
When running on App Engine or Compute Engine, credentials are already set-up. However, you may need to configure your Compute Engine instance with additional scopes.
You can create a Service Account key file. This file can be used to authenticate to Google Cloud Platform services from any environment. To use the file, set the
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALSenvironment variable to the path to the key file, for example:export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/path/to/service_account.json
Install pip and virtualenv if you do not already have them.
Create a virtualenv. Samples are compatible with Python 2.7 and 3.4+.
$ virtualenv env $ source env/bin/activateInstall the dependencies needed to run the samples.
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
To run this sample:
$ python quickstart.py
To run this sample:
$ python snippets.py
usage: snippets.py [-h]
{detect-language,list-languages,list-languages-with-target,translate-text}
...
This application demonstrates how to perform basic operations with the
Google Cloud Translate API
For more information, the documentation at
https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs.
positional arguments:
{detect-language,list-languages,list-languages-with-target,translate-text}
detect-language Detects the text's language.
list-languages Lists all available languages.
list-languages-with-target
Lists all available languages and localizes them to
the target language. Target must be an ISO 639-1
language code. See https://g.co/cloud/translate/v2
/translate-reference#supported_languages
translate-text Translates text into the target language. Target must
be an ISO 639-1 language code. See
https://g.co/cloud/translate/v2/translate-
reference#supported_languages
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exitThis sample uses the Google Cloud Client Library for Python. You can read the documentation for more details on API usage and use GitHub to browse the source and report issues.