Artificial Intelligence By Example

Implementing Google's translation service 

Google's translation service needs at least three values to return a result:

• developerKey: This is the API key obtained at the end of the "getting started" process described previously
• q="text to translate": In my code, I used source
• target="abbreviation of the translated text": en for English, fr for French, and so on

More options are available as described in the following sections.

With this in mind, the translation function will work as follows:

def g_translate(source,targetl): service = build('translate', 'v2',developerKey='your Key') request = service.translations().list(q=source, target=targetl) response = request.execute() return response['translations'][0]['translatedText']

In the Google_translate.py ...