harishshan / translate-api

Translation API

Receive a Get Request with Text, Source Language and Target Language. Then, make a FREE Translation request to google to translate text into target language. The translation text is then returned as a response.

Installation

1. Clone the Repo
2. npm install
3. npm start: This start nodemon wich monitors any change to the file on localhost:4000

Requesting on local:

http://localhost:4000/?sourceLanguage=en&targetLanguage=ne&text=I%20Love%20You

Response: { "translateText": "म तिमीलाई माया गर्छु" }

Live request:

'http://translateapi.howtofixthis.com/?sourceLanguage=en&targetLanguage=ta&text=Tranlsation%20is%20the%20best'

Response: { "translateText": "म तिमीलाई माया गर्छु" }

Consuming on Client end

`

let freeTranslateThirdParty = function(sourceText, sourceLanguage, targetLanguage) { return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) { let encodedUrl = encodeURI('http://translateapi.howtofixthis.com/?sourceLanguage=' + sourceLanguage + '&targetLanguage=' + targetLanguage + '&text=' + sourceText);

    // Do the usual XHR stuff
    let request = new XMLHttpRequest();
    request.open('GET', encodedUrl);

    request.onreadystatechange = function() {
        // This is called even on 404 etc
        // so check the status
        if (request.status == 200) {
            let json = JSON.parse(request.response);

            resolve(json.translateText);
        } else {
            reject('Rejected !' + request.status);
        }
    };

    // Handle network errors
    request.onerror = function() {
      reject(Error('Network Error'));
    };

    // Make the request
    request.send();
});

}

freeTranslateThirdParty(sourceText, sourceLanguage, targetLanguage) .then(function(response) { //For 200 console.log('Translation ', response);
}) .catch(function(error) { //For any other console.error('Failed -', error);
});

`