Using Google Translate in C#

Using Google Translate in C#

See if this works for you

google-language-api-for-dotnet

http://code.google.com/p/google-language-api-for-dotnet/

Google Translator

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/GoogleTranslator.aspx

Translate your text using Google Api's

http://blogs.msdn.com/shahpiyush/archive/2007/06/09/3188246.aspx

Calling Google Ajax Language API for Translation and Language Detection from C#

http://www.esotericdelights.com/post/2008/11/Calling-Google-Ajax-Language-API-for-Translation-and-Language-Detection-from-C.aspx

Translation Web Service in C#

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/translation.aspx

Using Google's Translation API from .NET

http://www.reimers.dk/blogs/jacob_reimers_weblog/archive/2008/06/18/using-google-s-translation-api-from-net.aspx

C# Google translate without api and with unicode

If you check the header section of the returned HTML you will see that it uses charset "windows-1251" - which is specifically for the Cyrillic characters. You need to set the encoding for that.

There may be better ways to get header information prior to downloading the page, but if you are happy to download the page twice - then you could check the charset used & if it is "windows-1251", then change the encoding & download again.

Something like :

string result = webClient.DownloadString(url);
if (result.Contains("windows-1251"))
{
  webClient.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("windows-1251");
  result = webClient.DownloadString(url);
}
else if (result.Contains("ISO-8859-2"))
{
  webClient.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-2");
  result = webClient.DownloadString(url);
}

you may want to modify it to ensure that the "windows-1251" is in the header section

Language Translation API C#

Two mainstream options are

1. the Microsoft API, this is free to a certain limit

2. the Google API is a paid service

An cheap and dirty option would be to call the Google translate directly via a HTTP request (in another words screen scrape the Google translate page) with the new ASP.NET Web API its quite easy to do HTTP requests elegantly. eg: to translate the English phrase "test this" from English to French you need the below URL.

http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/test%20this

Here is the asp.net web api resource.

Converting strings in c# from google translate

Somehow, Google doesn't respect the ie=UTF8 query parameter. We need to add some headers to our request so that UTF8 is returned:

WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
webClient.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
webClient.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.UserAgent, "Mozilla/5.0");
webClient.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.AcceptCharset, "UTF-8");

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