Sometimes, it would be great to be able to translate a text from e.g. English to Danish directly from C#. This could be useful when you want to translate a Resource file into another language.
Google Translate is awesome. There’s also Windows Live Translator, but Microsoft are far behind Google (also) in this game.
Code:
using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
namespace Utilities
{
public static class Translator
{
/// <summary>
/// Translates the text.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="input">The input.</param>
/// <param name="languagePair">The language pair.</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static string TranslateText(string input, string languagePair)
{
return TranslateText(input, languagePair, System.Text.Encoding.UTF7);
}
/// <summary>
/// Translate Text using Google Translate
/// </summary>
/// <param name="input">The string you want translated</param>
/// <param name="languagePair">2 letter Language Pair, delimited by "|".
/// e.g. "en|da" language pair means to translate from English to Danish</param>
/// <param name="encoding">The encoding.</param>
/// <returns>Translated to String</returns>
public static string TranslateText(string input, string languagePair, Encoding encoding)
{
string url = String.Format("http://www.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&ie=UTF8&text={0}&langpair={1}", input, languagePair);
string result = String.Empty;
using (WebClient webClient = new WebClient())
{
webClient.Encoding = encoding;
result = webClient.DownloadString(url);
}
Match m = Regex.Match(result, "(?<=<div id=result_box dir=\"ltr\">)(.*?)(?=</div>)");
if (m.Success)
result = m.Value;
return result;
}
}
}
The translated string is fetched by the RegEx close to the bottom. This could of course change, and you have to keep it up to date.
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