google translate cli

translate.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# from pprint import pprint
try:
    import urllib2 as request
    from urllib import quote
except:
    from urllib import request
    from urllib.parse import quote


class Translator:
    tran_table = [(',,,,', ',None,None,None,'), (',,,', ',None,None,'),
                  (',,', ',None,'), ('[,', '[None,'), (',]', ',None]')]

    def __init__(self, to_lang, from_lang='auto'):
        self.from_lang = from_lang
        self.to_lang = to_lang

    def translate(self, source):
        json = self._get_json(source)
        for pattern, res in self.tran_table:
            json = json.replace(pattern, res)
        json = eval(json, {'false': False, 'true': True})
        # pprint(json)
        return json[0][0][0]

    def _get_json(self, source):
        escaped_source = quote(source, '')
        req = request.Request(
                url=("http://translate.google.com/translate_a/single?"
                     "client=t&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&dt=t&sl=%s&tl=%s&q=%s"
                     ) % (self.from_lang, self.to_lang, escaped_source),
                headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})
        r = request.urlopen(req)
        return r.read().decode('utf-8')

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import argparse
    import sys
    import locale
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
    parser.add_argument('texts', metavar='text', nargs='+',
                        help='a string to translate'
                             '(use "" when it\'s a sentence)')
    parser.add_argument('-t', '--to', dest='to_lang', type=str, default='zh',
                        help='To language (e.g. zh, zh-TW, en, ja, ko).'
                             ' Default is zh.')
    parser.add_argument('-f', '--from', dest='from_lang',
                        type=str, default='auto',
                        help='From language (e.g. zh, zh-TW, en, ja, ko).'
                             ' Default is auto.')
    args = parser.parse_args()
    translator = Translator(from_lang=args.from_lang, to_lang=args.to_lang)
    for text in args.texts:
        translation = translator.translate(text)
        if sys.version_info.major == 2:
            translation = translation.decode('utf-8')\
                                     .encode(locale.getpreferredencoding())
        sys.stdout.write(translation)
        sys.stdout.write("\n")