fedeztk / got

Translating TUI written in go using simplytranslate's API

got

Table of Contents

Demo - Usage - Features - Testing

go-translation (shortly got), a simple translator and text-to-speech app built on top of simplytranslate and lingvatranslate APIs. The interface is made with the awesome bubbletea tui library.

⚠️ simplytranslate is currently down. I still kept it as a valid backend in the hope of a future comeback, by default got uses now lingvatranslate

Screenshots here

Disclaimer: this is my absolute first project in golang, so bugs and clunky code are expected…

The project is still a work-in-progress, breaking changes and heavy refactoring may happen

Demo

Kooha-05-01-2022-18-10-58.mp4

Usage

• Install got:

With the go tool:

go install github.com/fedeztk/got/cmd/got@latest

Or from source:

# clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/fedeztk/got.git
# install manually 
make install

In both cases make sure that you have the go bin directory in your path:

export PATH="$HOME/go/bin:$PATH"

If you are an Arch user there is also an AUR package available:

paru -S go-translation-git

• Copy the sample config file under ~/.config/got/ as config.yml or let the program generate one for you at the first run
• Run it interactively:

got            # use last used engine, default is google
got -e reverso # change engine to reverso

• Or in oneshot mode:

got -o -s en -t it "Hello World"          # use default (google)
got -o -e libre -s en -t it "Hello World" # use libre-translate

For more information check the help (got -h)

Features

• Interact with various translation engines easily via the terminal, no need to open a browser!
• Clean interface with 3 tabs, switch between them with tab/shift-tab:
  • text input: input the sentence you want to translate, press enter to translate
  • language selection: choose between 108 languages, select source language with s, target with t and i to invert the target with the source. Press ? to show the full help menu Full help:
  • translation: pager that shows the result of translation. Copy translation with y, listen the translation with p
• engines (only available with simplytranslate backend): choose between google, libre-translate, reverso and iciba (deepl is not working yet)
• quit anytime with esc or ctrl-c
• automatically remembers the last languages used

Testing

Development is done through docker, build the container with:

make docker-build

Check that the build went fine:

docker images | grep got

Test it with:

make docker-run

Pre-built Docker image available here