Puppet Translator

A Google Translate Command Line Interface
https://www.npmjs.com/package/puppet-translator

Preface

This tool translates passed text via Google Translate.

This tool internally uses Google Chrome, so it should have been installed on your system. And you should also specify the path to the chrome. It can be done via a command line option or a environment variable PUPPET_TRANSLATOR_CHROME_BIN_PATH.

It is supposed that this tool will work on every environment as long as you can browse https://translate.google.com by Google Chrome.

Requirements

• Node.js v7.6.0+

  • This script uses async/await.

Install

$ npm install -g puppet-translator

Usage

$ puppet-translator [options]

In this form, you must specify -x or --text option which represents the text to be translated.

Or you can pass piped input to translate.

$ somme-command-which-generates-text | puppet-translator [options]

To know more, please see Options and Examples below.

Options

• -c, --chrome string

  Path to the Google Chrome, if you omit this option, a environment variable PUPPET_TRANSLATOR_CHROME_BIN_PATH will be used instead.

• -f, --from string

  Language code of the input text or "auto" to autodetection
  (Default: "auto")

• -t, --to string

  Language code of the output text
  (Default: "ja")

• -x, --text string

  Target text to translate

• -h, --help

  Show help

Examples

• English to Japanese

    $ puppet-translator -f en -t ja -x Hello
    こんにちは

• Japanese to English

    $ puppet-translator -f ja -t en -x こんにちは
    Hello

• Auto-detected-language to Japanese (pipe)

    $ echo "Hello World" | puppet-translator -f auto -t ja
    こんにちは世界

PUPPET_TRANSLATOR_CHROME_BIN_PATH environment variable must be defined to point a Google Chrome binary before these commands.

Otherwise you should specify it in command line via -c / --chrome option.

LICENSE

MIT License

AUTHOR

msr1k [email protected] (https://github.com/msr1k)

CHANGELOG

v1.0.3 (2019-12-12)

• Improve error output message.

v1.0.2 (2019-12-07)

• Support piped input.

v1.0.1 (2019-12-07)

• Add URI encoding to the given text.

v1.0.0 (2019-12-06)

• First release.