grunt-google-translate

A build task to translate JSON files to other languages using Google's Translation API. Pairs very well with angular-translate.

Massive thanks to MartyIce for allowing me to use the grunt-google-translate namespace.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-google-translate --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-google-translate');

The "google_translate" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named google_translate to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  google_translate: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

Options

options.googleApiKey

Type: String Default value: ', '

The API key used to access Google Translation services.

Usage Examples

Simple Example

In this example, I passed in a JSON file with english text. It will then create two files in the i18n/ folder called ru.json and zh-CN.json for Russian and Chinese respectively.

Note: This plugin will try and deduce the suffix (file type), so you don't need to explicity specify it. If you need it to have a different suffix, then specify the suffix as shown in the next example.

grunt.initConfig({
    google_translate: {
        default_options: {
            options: {
                googleApiKey: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE
            },
            files: [{
                src: '<%= yeoman.client %>/i18n/en.json',
                sourceLanguage: 'en',
                targetLanguages: ['ru', 'zh-CN'],
                dest: '<%= yeoman.client %>/i18n/'
            }]
        }
    }
});

Full Example

In this example, two files are being translated, one called locale-en.json and another called locale-fr.json. They are in different folders, and will create translated files in the same i18n/ folder.

Notice how the prefix and suffix is specified, it means the translated files will be named like locale-de.json instead of de.json.

grunt.initConfig({
    google_translate: {
        default_options: {
            options: {
                googleApiKey: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE
            },
            files: [{
                src: '<%= yeoman.client %>/i18n/locale-en.json',
                sourceLanguage: 'en',
                targetLanguages: ['ru', 'zh-CN'],
                dest: '<%= yeoman.client %>/i18n/',
                prefix: 'locale-',
                suffix: '.json'
            }, {
                src: '<%= yeoman.client %>/specialFolder/locale-fr.json',
                sourceLanguage: 'fr',
                targetLanguages: ['de', 'zh-CN'],
                dest: '<%= yeoman.client %>/i18n/',
                prefix: 'locale-',
                suffix: '.json'
            },]
        }
    }
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

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