Translate-Text

Translates text into other languages

Script

param([string]$Text = "", [string]$SourceLangCode = "en", [string]$TargetLangCode = "all")

function UseLibreTranslate { param([string]$Text, [string]$SourceLangCode, [string]$TargetLangCode)
	$Parameters = @{"q"="$Text"; "source"="$SourceLangCode"; "target"="$TargetLangCode"; }
	$Result = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://libretranslate.de/translate -Method POST -Body ($Parameters|ConvertTo-Json) -ContentType "application/json" -useBasicParsing).content | ConvertFrom-Json
	return $Result.translatedText
}

try {
	if ($Text -eq "" ) { $Text = Read-Host "Enter the text to translate" }

	if ($TargetLangCode -eq "all") {
		$TargetLangCodes = "ar","de","es","fr","ga","hi","it","ja","ko","pt","ru","zh"
		foreach($TargetLangCode in $TargetLangCodes) {
			$Translation = UseLibreTranslate $Text $SourceLangCode $TargetLangCode
			Write-Output "$($TargetLangCode): $Translation"
			Start-Sleep -seconds 6 # 10 requests maximum per minute
		}
	} else {
		$Translation = UseLibreTranslate $Text $SourceLangCode $TargetLangCode
		Write-Output "$Translation"
	}
	exit 0 # success
} catch {
	"?? ERROR: $($Error[0]) (script line $($_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber))"
	exit 1
}

Customize

Text string

Specifies the text to translate

SourceLangCode string

TargetLangCode string