ibm-watson-language-translator

Unofficial Node.js client library and CLI for a subset of the IBM Watson™ Language Translator service API.

Installation:

npm install @warren-bank/ibm-watson-language-translator

Library API:

• translate(api_key, api_url, input_language_code, output_language_code, input_strings_array)
  • input parameters:
    • api_key
      • type: string
      • unique to an IBM Cloud account
    • api_url
      • type: string
      • unique to an IBM Cloud account
    • input_language_code
      • type: string
      • value is restricted to the list of supported languages
    • output_language_code
      • type: string
      • value is restricted to the list of supported languages
    • input_strings_array
      • type: array of strings
      • each string will be translated from input_language_code to output_language_code
      • the order of strings is preserved in the resolved return value
  • return value:
    • Promise that resolves to an array of translated strings in the same order as the input array

Supported Languages

| code | name | |---------|-----------------------| | "ar" | Arabic | | "eu" | Basque [1] | | "bn" | Bengali | | "bs" | Bosnian | | "bg" | Bulgarian | | "ca" | Catalan [1] | | "zh" | Chinese (Simplified) | | "zh-TW" | Chinese (Traditional) | | "hr" | Croatian | | "cs" | Czech | | "da" | Danish | | "nl" | Dutch | | "en" | English | | "et" | Estonian | | "fi" | Finnish | | "fr" | French | | "fr-CA" | French (Canadian) | | "de" | German | | "el" | Greek | | "gu" | Gujarati | | "he" | Hebrew | | "hi" | Hindi | | "hu" | Hungarian | | "ga" | Irish | | "id" | Indonesian | | "it" | Italian | | "ja" | Japanese | | "ko" | Korean | | "lv" | Latvian | | "lt" | Lithuanian | | "ms" | Malay | | "ml" | Malayalam | | "mt" | Maltese | | "cnr" | Montenegrin | | "ne" | Nepali | | "nb" | Norwegian Bokmål | | "pl" | Polish | | "pt" | Portuguese | | "ro" | Romanian | | "ru" | Russian | | "sr" | Serbian | | "si" | Sinhala | | "sk" | Slovak | | "sl" | Slovenian | | "es" | Spanish | | "sv" | Swedish | | "ta" | Tamil | | "te" | Telugu | | "th" | Thai | | "tr" | Turkish | | "uk" | Ukrainian | | "ur" | Urdu | | "vi" | Vietnamese | | "cy" | Welsh |

[1] Basque and Catalan are supported only for translation to and from Spanish.

related docs

Library Example:

const translate = require('@warren-bank/ibm-watson-language-translator')

{
  const print_translated_strings = async function(...args) {
    const translated_strings_array = await translate(...args)

    console.log(JSON.stringify(translated_strings_array, null, 2))
  }

  const api_key              = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
  const api_url              = 'https://api.us-south.language-translator.watson.cloud.ibm.com/instances/yyyyyyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyyyyyyyyyy'
  const input_language_code  = 'en'
  const output_language_code = 'de'
  const input_strings_array  = ['Hello world', 'Welcome to the jungle']

  print_translated_strings(api_key, api_url, input_language_code, output_language_code, input_strings_array)
}

CLI Usage:

ibm-translate <options>

options:
========
"-h"
"--help"
    Print a help message describing all command-line options.

"-v"
"--version"
    Display the version.

"-k" <key>
"--api-key" <key>
    [optional] IBM Cloud account API key.
    Default: Value is read from "IBM_TRANSLATOR_API_KEY" environment variable.

"-u" <url>
"--api-url" <url>
    [optional] IBM Cloud account API URL.
    Default: Value is read from "IBM_TRANSLATOR_API_URL" environment variable.

"-i" <language>
"--input-language" <language>
    [required] Language code for input string.

"-o" <language>
"--output-language" <language>
    [required] Language code for translated output string, written to stdout.

"-s" <text>
"--input-string" <text>
    [required] Input string to be translated.

language codes:
===============
  "ar"    Arabic
  "eu"    Basque [1]
  "bn"    Bengali
  "bs"    Bosnian
  "bg"    Bulgarian
  "ca"    Catalan [1]
  "zh"    Chinese (Simplified)
  "zh-TW" Chinese (Traditional)
  "hr"    Croatian
  "cs"    Czech
  "da"    Danish
  "nl"    Dutch
  "en"    English
  "et"    Estonian
  "fi"    Finnish
  "fr"    French
  "fr-CA" French (Canadian)
  "de"    German
  "el"    Greek
  "gu"    Gujarati
  "he"    Hebrew
  "hi"    Hindi
  "hu"    Hungarian
  "ga"    Irish
  "id"    Indonesian
  "it"    Italian
  "ja"    Japanese
  "ko"    Korean
  "lv"    Latvian
  "lt"    Lithuanian
  "ms"    Malay
  "ml"    Malayalam
  "mt"    Maltese
  "cnr"   Montenegrin
  "ne"    Nepali
  "nb"    Norwegian Bokmål
  "pl"    Polish
  "pt"    Portuguese
  "ro"    Romanian
  "ru"    Russian
  "sr"    Serbian
  "si"    Sinhala
  "sk"    Slovak
  "sl"    Slovenian
  "es"    Spanish
  "sv"    Swedish
  "ta"    Tamil
  "te"    Telugu
  "th"    Thai
  "tr"    Turkish
  "uk"    Ukrainian
  "ur"    Urdu
  "vi"    Vietnamese
  "cy"    Welsh

[1] Basque and Catalan are supported only for translation to and from Spanish.

CLI Example:

source ~/IBM_TRANSLATOR_API_CREDENTIALS.sh

ibm-translate -i 'en' -o 'de' -s 'Hello world'
ibm-translate -i 'en' -o 'de' -s 'Welcome to the jungle'

Legal:

• copyright: Warren Bank
• license: GPL-2.0