huhx/go_translator

A command line tool that translate chinese to english and vice versa, it also provides the feature of querying the translation history.

Right now, it only supports the English and Chinese languages.

Background

When I want to translate words between chinese and english, using the Google translation web page I need to choose the source and target language. It is less convenient to me. So I decide to develop a command line tool that simplify the translation work since it can identify the language automatically.

Implementation

cobra: the core of the command line
viper: store the translation api key and secret
http: use to call translation api

Features

Translation:

trans "I love coding" # 我喜欢编码
trans 我喜欢游泳 # I like swimming

History record

trans -l

#                                 Query|                      Result|CreateTime
#                                  ----|                         ---|-------
#   Chinese people are very intelligent|                     **人非常聪明|2024-04-18 17:02:10
#                              我们的爱从未消失|   Our love never disappears|2024-04-18 17:04:12
#            make the world much better|                    让世界变得更美好|2024-04-18 17:04:30

Clean up history record

trans -c # successfully cleared

Deploy

prepare the viper configuration file: ~/.go_translator.yaml

appId: "{baidu_app_id}"
appSecret: "{baidu_app_secret}"
fileName: "go_translator_record.csv

https://fanyi-api.baidu.com/manage/developer

build the exec command

go build -o trans main.go
go install trans

# or
make deploy

huhx / go_translator