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capacitor-bing-translator
A simple and free API for Bing Translator for Capacitor.js.
Install
npm install capacitor-bing-translator
Platforms
All Capacitor native platforms are supported (Android & iOS).
Web platform is not supported, because of CORS; Unless you disable CORS in your browser (for example with this extention or using CLI flags)
Usage
From auto-detected language to English:
import { translate } from 'bing-translate-api'
translate('你好', null, 'en').then(res => {
console.log(res.translation)
}).catch(err => {
console.error(err)
})
Translation result
{
// original text
"text": "你好",
// user-specified language code
"userLang": "auto-detect",
// translated text
"translation": "Hello",
// `correctedText` is returned only when `correct` is set as `true`
// supported since v1.1.0
"correctedText": "",
// detected language
"language": {
// language code of translated text
"to": "en",
// detected language code of original text
"from": "zh-Hans",
// score of language detection
// supported since v1.1.0
"score": 1
}
}
API
translate(text, [from], [to], [correct], [raw], [userAgent])
text
Type: string
The text to be translated, can't be blank. The maximum text length is 1000.
from
Type: string
Default: auto-detect
The language code of source text.
MUST be auto-detect
or one of the codes/names (not case sensitive) contained in lang.json
to
Type: string
Default: en
The language in which the text should be translated.
MUST be one of the codes/names (not case sensitive) contained in lang.json.
correct
Type: boolean
Default: false
Since: v1.1.0
Whether to correct the input text.
Note that:
- There is currently a limit of 50 characters for correction service.
- Only the languages in the list are supported to be corrected.
raw
Type: boolean
Default: false
Whether the translation result contains raw response from Bing API.
userAgent
Type: string
The header value of user-agent
used in API requests.
Default:
navigator.userAgent
License
MIT © 2021-2023 plainheart.
Thanks
Great thanks to Bing Translator for providing so excellent translation service.
Related projects
Bing translate api for Node.js
Bing Translate API - A free Bing translation api for using in Node.js. Capacitor Bing Translator is a fork of that.
Google translate api for Capacitor
If you want to use google translate API instead of Bing, use the google-translate-api-x
package. and use a custom requestFunction
like this:
const result = await translate('سلام دنیا', {
to: 'en',
autoCorrect: true,
forceBatch: false,
fallbackBatch: false,
async requestFunction(url: string, options: RequestInit) {
const result = await CapacitorHttp.request({
url,
headers: {
...options.headers,
'user-agent': navigator.userAgent,
},
method: options.method,
data: options.body || null,
webFetchExtra: {
credentials: options.credentials,
},
})
return new Response(
JSON.stringify(result.data),
{
headers: result.headers,
status: result.status,
},
)
},
})