paulo-raca / code_translate

Use a little help from Google Translator to make code from Chinese and Russian guys readable

code_translate

Use a little help from Google Translator to make code from Chinese and Russian guys readable

This script uses Pygments as a Lexer for source code, selects only the tokens types you want to translate (e.g., comments), send those to Google's Cloud Translation API and replace it back on the original file

API key

You'll need to generate your own Key to Google's Cloud Translation API. See the quickstart.

Usage

usage: code_translate.py [-h] [--src SRC] [--dest DEST] [--syntax LANG]
                         [--replace] [--tokens TOKEN_TYPE] [--regex REGEX]
                         [--google-api-key GOOGLE_API_KEY]
                         FILE [FILE ...]

Source code translation

positional arguments:
  FILE                  Files to translate

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --src SRC             Source Language
  --dest DEST           Dest Language
  --syntax LANG         Syntax used to parse the file
  --replace             Replace original file contents
  --tokens TOKEN_TYPE   Comma-separated list of token types to translate.
                        e.g., "String,Comment"
  --regex REGEX         Only translate tokens that match the regex specified.
                        e.g. "\p{IsHan}"
  --google-api-key GOOGLE_API_KEY
                        Google Translator API key.

Example

code_translate.py --google-api-key=xxx --replace --src=zh --dest=en --syntax=java --regex="\\p{IsHan}" ChineseCode.java