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baidut

Baidu translator for NodeJS and Browser with Promise ready.

Installation

Install it via npm install baidut.

Usage

You need to prepare Baidu environment first before making a call to translate.

Baidut.builder
    .setAppId("2015063000000001")
    .setKey("12345678")
    .build();

Then translate it via

Baidut.translate('苹果')
  .then((result) => {
      console.log("translated text: " + result.trans_result[0].dst);
  }, (e) => {
      console.log(e.code + ": " + e.message);
  });

There are options you can set when translate too.

Baidut.translate('สวัสดี', { http_request: true, from_lang: "th", to_lang: "en" })
    .then((result) => {
        console.log("translated text: " + result.trans_result[0].dst);
    }, (e) => {
        console.log(e.code + ": " + e.message);
    });

Above set http_request=true to force it to make a request via HTTP protocol, and set from_lang="th" to mark that the source langauge is Thai, and to_lang="en" to mark the result we want in English.
See list of language support at official document.

Note on Browser

As you likely to involve translating Unicode language as well thus defining that your HTML file has UTF-8 encoding is important to have conistency in displaying proper text for non-English language.

<head>
...
<meta charset="UTF-8">
...
</head>

Document

You can look here for document reference. Error code built-in for baidut can be seen here so you could have better error handling on your application by checking which code for which error.

License

MIT. See and understand license here.