Thursday, April 4, 2013

Google Translate and Microsoft Bing Translator

I was trying to develop a service to programatically translate web pages. From what I learned so far, there're two main translate services offered by Google and Microsoft.

http://translate.google.com/

http://www.bing.com/translator

Both offer API, you just need obtain a key or token. But I couldn't find a way to programmatically post a web page address and then retrieve translated pages. The most can be achieved so far is just post text and get translation.

Also if you don't want to use API (because Google API is a paid service), you still can get transaltion using screen scraping. See links below.

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/12711/Google-Translator

http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/2011/Aug/06/Translating-with-Google-Translate-without-API-and-C-Code

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