translate-platforms

Translate Platforms

A Node module to translate words by multiple platforms.

Installation

npm install translate-platforms

Usage

const { google, microsoft, youdao, baidu } = require('translate-platforms');
// async/await. The second parameter can be a language name (ISO 639-1)
const result = await google('Hello world', { to: google.ja });
console.log(result); 
// Output:
// {
//     lang: { from: 'en', to: 'ja' },
//     word: 'Hello world', 
//     text: 'こんにちは世界', 
//     candidate: [ 'こんにちは世界', 'こんにちは' ] 
// }
 
// Promises with .then(). The third parameter is the source language.
microsoft('こんにちは世界', { to: microsoft.zh }).then(result => {
  console.log(result);  
  // Output:
  // { 
  //     lang: { from: 'ja', to: 'zh' },
  //     word: 'こんにちは世界', 
  //     text: '你好世界', 
  //     candidate: [ ] 
  // }
});

Parameters

function translate(word: string, language: { from: string, to: string }): object

parameter	description
word	The word want to translate.
from	The source language. Default is recognized automatically(auto). (Optional)
to	The target language. Default is Chinese(zh). (Optional)

Return Object

key	description
lang	The source language and target language.
word	The word want to translate.
text	The most match result.
candidate	Other translate result.

Language Code

Each platform supports different translation languages. You can check the interface function properties.

Support Platform

Supported platforms are Google, Microsoft, Yandex, Baidu, Tencent and Youdao.

Notice

Tencent does not support mutual translation of all languages, you can use the support function to get the translation language supported by the language.