yinan-c / alfred-translate-it

An Alfred workflow to translate text from any source to any target.

Alfred Translate-It

An Alfred 5 workflow to translate text using OpenAI, DeepL, Google, Bing, Baidu and Youdao. This workflow also supports Universal Actions.

Requirements

• Alfred PowerPack
• Python3 (system shipped Python3 not recommended, use other sources like, Homebrew or pyenv installed Python3)
• Google translation is free and unlimited and requires no dependency, but may fail in mainland China.
• OpenAI Translation requires OpenAI API
• DeepL Translation requires DeepL API
• Other translation services require translators library, install via:

# PYPI
pip install --upgrade translators

# Conda
conda install -c conda-forge translators

# Source
git clone https://github.com/UlionTse/translators.git
cd translators
python setup.py install

Usage

• Set up: target language, method of translation and your APIs. (Please check supported source language code from DeepL API docs and Translators library)
• Type anything after keyword trans to translate, it will auto-detect the source language.
• Then select any result and ⏎ to copy text to your clipboard
• ⌘ + ⏎ to view large text (useful if results are long)
• For universal control, simply select any text and search for translate.
• Set up basic language configs (base target and keyword) in case you want to add a second translation target, which might be beneficial for bidirectional translation or multilingual support.

Thanks

• Open-source project UlionTse/translators, a library which aims to bring free, multiple, enjoyable translation to individuals and students in Python.
• Inspired by a discussion in a great macapp tisfeng/easydict
• py-googletrans

Any suggestions are welcome!

Please consider buying me a coffee if you find this workflow helpful