Gengo API

A TypeScript Gengo API v2 client with promises.

Getting started

const gengo = initGengoAPI({
  publicKey: 'YOUR_GENGO_PUBLIC_KEY',
  privateKey: 'YOUR_GENGO_PRIVATE_KEY',
  useSandbox: true,
})

// Or using default env vars: GENGO_PUBLIC_KEY, GENGO_PRIVATE_KEY, GENGO_USE_SANDBOX
// const gengo = initGengoAPI();

const jobsRequest = {
  commment: 'My first translation order',
  jobs: [
    {
      type: 'text',
      slug: 'my-warm-greeting',
      body_src: 'Hello there',
      lc_src: 'en',             // English
      lc_tgt: 'es',             // Spanish
      tier: 'pro',              // Advanced Tier
    }
  ]
}

// Check price
const totalPrice: Money = await gengo.service.getQuote(jobRequest)
  .jobs.reduce((acc, job) => acc.add(new Money(job.credits, job.currency)), new Money(0, 'USD'))

if (totalPrice.isGreaterThan('10.00')) {
  throw 'too expensive!'
}

// Send to translators!
await gengo.account.submitJobs(jobRequest)

// Approve jobs later...
const jobIds = await gengo.jobs.listJobs({ status: 'reviewable' })
  .forEach(job => {
    await gengo.job.updateJob({ id: job.job_id, action: 'approve' })
  })

Methods

Account methods

• gengo.account.getStats()
• gengo.account.getMe()
• gengo.account.getBalance()
• gengo.account.getPreferredTranslators()

Job methods

• gengo.job.getJob(jobId)
• gengo.job.updateJob({ id: jobId, action: 'approve' })
• gengo.job.cancelJob(jobId)
• gengo.job.getJobFeedback(jobId)
• gengo.job.getJobRevisions(jobId)
• gengo.job.getJobRevision({ id: jobId, revId: revisionId })
• gengo.job.getJobComments(jobId)
• gengo.job.postJobComment({ id: jobId, body: 'Great job!' })

Jobs methods

• gengo.jobs.submitJobs(jobsRequest)
• gengo.jobs.listJobs({ status: 'approved' })
• gengo.jobs.getJobsById([jobId, jobId2])

Order methods

• gengo.order.getOrderJobs(orderId)
• gengo.order.cancelOrderJobs(orderId)
• gengo.order.getOrderComments(orderId)
• gengo.order.postOrderComment({ id: orderId, body: 'Great job!' })

Glossary methods

• gengo.glossary.getGlossaries()
• gengo.glossary.getGlossary(glossaryId)

Service methods

• gengo.service.getLanguagePairs({ lc_src: 'en' })

• gengo.service.getLanguages()

• gengo.service.getQuote(jobsRequest)

Error handling

If you need to handle errors granularly, bad Gengo API responses are thrown as GengoAPIError objects.

try {
  const comments = await gengo.job.getJobComments(2303)
} catch (error) {
  if (error instanceof GengoAPIError) {
    console.log(error.underlyingCode)
    console.log(error.underlyingMessage)
  }
}