bing-translate-api

bing-translate-api

A simple and free API for Bing Translator for Node.js.

Install

npm install bing-translate-api

Usage

From auto-detected language to English:

const { translate } = require('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], [proxyAgents])

text

Type: string

The text to be translated, can't be blank. The maximum text length is 5000.

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:

1. There is currently a limit of 50 characters for correction service.
2. 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:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/119.0.0.0

proxyAgents

Type: Got['Agents'] Default: undefined Since: v2.4.0

Set agents of got for proxy.

License

MIT © 2021-2023 plainheart.

Thanks

Great thanks to Bing Translator for providing so excellent translation service.

Related projects

• Capacitor Bing Translator - A fork of this project that works in Capacitor.