This isn't a bug report, just a sharing of some findings while looking through minified source code.

While digging through the source code of Google's Google Dictionary Chrome extension, which has support for translating via Google Translate, I found the endpoint they use in order to do just that. Since googletrans frequently runs into 5xx errors, it might be useful to switch off to another endpoint, although this one is also annoyingly touchy with 403s.

Breakdown

Endpoint: https://clients5.google.com/translate_a/t

Query Parameters

| Query Parameter | Default | Notes | |-----------------|------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------| | client | dict-chrome-ex | Needs to be dict-chrome-ex or else you'll get a 403 error. | | sl | auto | Designates the source language of the text to translate. | | tl | (none) | Designates the destination language of the text to translate. | | q | (none) | Text to translate |

Example Response

URL: https://clients5.google.com/translate_a/t?client=dict-chrome-ex&sl=auto&tl=en&q=bonjour

{
  "sentences": [
    {
      "trans": "Hello",
      "orig": "bonjour",
      "backend": 1
    }
  ],
  "dict": [
    {
      "pos": "interjection",
      "terms": [
        "Hello!",
        "Hi!",
        "Good morning!",
        "Good afternoon!",
        "How do you do?",
        "Hallo!",
        "Hullo!",
        "Welcome!"
      ],
      "entry": [
        {
          "word": "Hello!",
          "reverse_translation": [
            "Bonjour!",
            "Salut!",
            "Tiens!",
            "Allô!"
          ],
          "score": 0.7316156
        },
        {
          "word": "Hi!",
          "reverse_translation": [
            "Salut!",
            "Bonjour!",
            "Hé!"
          ],
          "score": 0.084690653
        },
        {
          "word": "Good morning!",
          "reverse_translation": [
            "Bonjour!"
          ],
          "score": 0.065957151
        },
        {
          "word": "Good afternoon!",
          "reverse_translation": [
            "Bonjour!"
          ],
          "score": 0.02749503
        },
        {
          "word": "How do you do?",
          "reverse_translation": [
            "Bonjour!",
            "Salut!",
            "Ça marche?"
          ]
        },
        {
          "word": "Hallo!",
          "reverse_translation": [
            "Bonjour!",
            "Tiens!",
            "Salut!",
            "Allô!"
          ]
        },
        {
          "word": "Hullo!",
          "reverse_translation": [
            "Tiens!",
            "Allô!",
            "Salut!",
            "Bonjour!"
          ]
        },
        {
          "word": "Welcome!",
          "reverse_translation": [
            "Salut!",
            "Bonjour!",
            "Soyez le bienvenu!"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "base_form": "Bonjour!",
      "pos_enum": 9
    }
  ],
  "src": "fr",
  "alternative_translations": [
    {
      "src_phrase": "bonjour",
      "alternative": [
        {
          "word_postproc": "Hello",
          "score": 1000,
          "has_preceding_space": true,
          "attach_to_next_token": false
        }
      ],
      "srcunicodeoffsets": [
        {
          "begin": 0,
          "end": 7
        }
      ],
      "raw_src_segment": "bonjour",
      "start_pos": 0,
      "end_pos": 0
    }
  ],
  "confidence": 0.96875,
  "ld_result": {
    "srclangs": [
      "fr"
    ],
    "srclangs_confidences": [
      0.96875
    ],
    "extended_srclangs": [
      "fr"
    ]
  },
  "query_inflections": [
    {
      "written_form": "bonjour",
      "features": {
        "gender": 1,
        "number": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "written_form": "bonjours",
      "features": {
        "gender": 1,
        "number": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "written_form": "bonjour",
      "features": {
        "number": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "written_form": "bonjours",
      "features": {
        "number": 1
      }
    }
  ]
}

My script like this: #-- coding:utf-8 -- from googletrans import Translator import sys import io

translator = Translator() tanstext = u'我们' tran_ch = translator.translate(tanstext ).text print tran_ch ############### yesterday this is ok and no problem，but today I run my script without internet, show some problem.And I run the script in the internet environment, but it's show same problem,can't run. The cmd show the Traceback like this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\JDstory\workstory\translation-project\filetocut\trans-test.py", line 10, in tran_ch = translator.translate(tanstext).text File "D:\software\Python27\lib\site-packages\googletrans\client.py", line 132, in translate data = self._translate(text, dest, src) File "D:\software\Python27\lib\site-packages\googletrans\client.py", line 57, in _translate token = self.token_acquirer.do(text) File "D:\software\Python27\lib\site-packages\googletrans\gtoken.py", line 180, in do self._update() File "D:\software\Python27\lib\site-packages\googletrans\gtoken.py", line 59, in _update code = unicode(self.RE_TKK.search(r.text).group(1)).replace('var ', '') AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group' ######################### That's why? Thank you so much!

In a perspective to help solving issue #234 I propose a solution that implements a proper way to use translate.googleapis.com as url service. This url service has following characteristics:

• no need for a token
• uses client gtx instead of webapp I made a few modifications to mainly deal with these characteristics, preserving the possibility to use standard webapp calls. The client should use 'translate.googleapis.com' as service url when instanciating Translator() object, adapted code will manage the valuation of client gtx in utils params. Looking forward to reading your remarks for improvement is needed before final merge.

I am trying to translate a list of tokens from chinese to english. I get the following error after a few attempts of translation. Is this because of rate limits?

File "/home/sharath/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/googletrans/client.py", line 127, in translate
   translated = self.translate(item, dest=dest, src=src)
 File "/home/sharath/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/googletrans/client.py", line 132, in translate
   data = self._translate(text, dest, src)
 File "/home/sharath/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/googletrans/client.py", line 63, in _translate
   data = utils.format_json(r.text)
 File "/home/sharath/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/googletrans/utils.py", line 62, in format_json
   converted = legacy_format_json(original)
 File "/home/sharath/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/googletrans/utils.py", line 54, in legacy_format_json
   converted = json.loads(text)
 File "/data/anaconda2/envs/dlatk/lib/python3.5/json/__init__.py", line 319, in loads
   return _default_decoder.decode(s)
 File "/data/anaconda2/envs/dlatk/lib/python3.5/json/decoder.py", line 339, in decode
   obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
 File "/data/anaconda2/envs/dlatk/lib/python3.5/json/decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode
   raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Googletrans version:

• 4.0.0rc1

I'm submitting a ...

• [x] bug report
• [ ] feature request

Current behavior:

python3
Python 3.7.4 (tags/v3.7.4:e09359112e, Jul  8 2019, 19:29:22) [MSC v.1916 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from googletrans import Translator
>>> translator = Translator()
>>> print(translator.translate("Author", src="en", dest="de").text)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "c:\Users\Max\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\googletrans\client.py", line 222, in translate
    translated_parts = list(map(lambda part: TranslatedPart(part[0], part[1] if len(part) >= 2 else []), parsed[1][0][0][5]))
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

Expected behavior:

I expect the "Author" word in deuch

Steps to reproduce:

• Install googletrans 4.0.0-rc1
• Call python and make steps from "Current behavior"

I'm using one of the basic code:

from googletrans import Translator

translator = Translator()

translation=translator.translate('안녕하세요.', dest='ja')

print(translation)

And I'm getting an attribute error : AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

Please let me know if the module is still working properly.

Googletrans version:

• 3.x

I'm submitting a ...

• bug report

Current behavior: I am trying to translate from AWS EC2 Instance with googletrans python library using below snippet:

translator = Translator(service_urls=['translate.google.com', 'translate.google.co.kr'])
translated_text = str(translator.translate("你好!", dest="en").text)

print(translated_text) # <------- outputs to 你好! but it should be ideally Hello there

Even I tried with proxy like below where I read proxy from file and use it at translator() method, but no luck:

translator = Translator(service_urls=['translate.google.com', 'translate.google.co.kr'],proxies=proxy)
translated_text = str(translator.translate("你好!", dest="en").text)
print(translated_text)

The same code was working for 6+ months at same instance, but from last 2-3 days , I am getting output same as input. I checked it translate.google.com , it was working fine, so thought it would be a bug with googletrans

Current Behaviour:

Suppose if I want to translate 你好! to English , At Output , I am getting same value "你好!" - before that it converts to "Hello there".

Environment:

1. Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
2. Python 3.7.3
3. GoogleTrans - 3.0.0, httpcore - 0.9.1 , httpx - 0.13.3
4. AWS Region : US_EAST

Please help me to figure out root-cause of this error. The same code works on different machine - is there any limitation on IP?

Even for Single text, this is happening. Any help appreciated, Thanks!

Google has changed their API yet again. Using this tool and the fix in #78 no longer works as it now gives this error:

\googletrans\gtoken.py", line 66, in _update code = unicode(self.RE_TKK.search(r.text).group(1)).replace('var ', '') AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

Does anybody have an idea how to fix this?

Googletrans version:

• [x] 4.0.0-rc1
• [ ] 3.x
• [ ] 2.x

I'm submitting a ...

• [x] bug report
• [ ] feature request

Current behavior:

I tried to use the bulk translate from sample code on documentation page. The translate method return error TypeError: the JSON object must be str, bytes or bytearray, not 'NoneType'

Expected behavior:

Should be same as written in documentation page. Bulk translate must return collection of translated object

Steps to reproduce:

Use list of string as an input parameter translate method

Related code:

translator = Translator(service_urls=[
      'translate.google.com',
      'translate.google.co.kr',
    ])

translations = translator.translate(['The quick brown fox', 'jumps over', 'the lazy dog'], dest='ko')
for translation in translations:
    print(translation.origin, ' -> ', translation.text)

TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-21-14c1e5590012> in <module>()
      4     ])
      5 
----> 6 translations = translator.translate(['The quick brown fox', 'jumps over', 'the lazy dog'], dest='ko')
      7 for translation in translations:
      8     print(translation.origin, ' -> ', translation.text)

1 frames
/usr/lib/python3.6/json/__init__.py in loads(s, encoding, cls, object_hook, parse_float, parse_int, parse_constant, object_pairs_hook, **kw)
    346         if not isinstance(s, (bytes, bytearray)):
    347             raise TypeError('the JSON object must be str, bytes or bytearray, '
--> 348                             'not {!r}'.format(s.__class__.__name__))
    349         s = s.decode(detect_encoding(s), 'surrogatepass')
    350 

TypeError: the JSON object must be str, bytes or bytearray, not 'NoneType'

Other information:

I tried the new version of googletrans 4.0.0rc1.

translator = Translator(service_urls=['translate.google.com'])
res = translator.translate(text)

After some time an exception occurs: AttributeError: 'Translator' object has no attribute 'raise_Exception'

To fix this I need to execute this line:

translator.raise_Exception = True

And then the exception writes: Exception: Unexpected status code "429" from ['translate.google.com']

Hi, my code is just simply as follows:

import googletrans from googletrans import Translator translator = Translator() translator.translate('bonjour')

I would like to test the package and the text is so short within the limit. But it raise error: raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None

and the error message is JSONDecodeError: Expecting value

Can anybody help me? It is really urgent and I don't know how to deal with it since the text is so short. Thanks a lot!

please append Ignore hashtags translation or an option to set ignored places for example I dont want to translate word jeff in my text: I see jeff at home.

And it will ignore jeff in translation. with this call : translate('I see jeff at #home.',ignore_char='_', ignore_hashtags=True) also home will not translate cuz of ignore_hashtags variable

Hello,

I have a question. I am using googletrans for translating several languages to English. But I as thinking If there is cost using this package since I have many labels which need to be translated daily.

It will be great If you inform me about that.

Best regards, Narges

Googletrans version:

• [X] 4.0.0rc1
• [ ] 3.1.0a0
• [ ] 3.0.0
• [ ] 2.x

I'm submitting a ...

• [X] bug report
• [ ] feature request

Current behavior:

When try to translate a phrase like "Disappointed!" and "Delicious", in any form like "disappointed" or "disappointed!." or "DELICIOUS!" and so on, the library returns the TypeError described in the title.

Expected behavior:

Translate the word "Disappointed" to "Deluso". Translate the word "Delicious" to "Delizioso".

Steps to reproduce:

Run one of the codes in Related code.

Related code:

Example 1
import googletrans
translator = googletrans.Translator()
result=translator.translate('Disappinted!', src='en', dest='it')
print(result.text)

Example 2
import googletrans
translator = googletrans.Translator()
result=translator.translate('DELICIOUS!!', src='en', dest='it')
print(result.text)

Other information:

I think the error is caused by the fact that in Italian Disappointed and Delicious, if there isn't a specific subject that indicates if translate them in male or female form, are translatable in "Deluso" or "Delusa" (for disappointed) and "Delizioso" or "Deliziosa" (for delicious) .

• [X] bug report
• [ ] feature request

When I try to follow the guide given in the documentation I get an error.

from googletrans import Translator
translator = Translator()

translator.translate('Mitä sinä teet')


>>>AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

Googletrans version:

• [ ] 4.0.0rc1
• [ ] 3.1.0a0
• [x] 3.0.0
• [ ] 2.x

I'm submitting a...

• [x] bug report
• [ ] feature request

Current behavior:

It throws AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group' error.

Expected behavior:

Print the translated text of "我覺得今天天氣不好" Related code:

There is the full error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\hong\Desktop\VS_codes\line_bot\venv\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 2070, in wsgi_app
    response = self.full_dispatch_request()
  File "C:\Users\hong\Desktop\VS_codes\line_bot\venv\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1515, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
  File "C:\Users\hong\Desktop\VS_codes\line_bot\venv\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1513, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.dispatch_request()
  File "C:\Users\hong\Desktop\VS_codes\line_bot\venv\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1499, in dispatch_request
    return self.ensure_sync(self.view_functions[rule.endpoint])(**req.view_args)
  File "C:/Users/hong/Desktop/VS_codes/line_bot/app.py", line 126, in callback
    handler.handle(body, signature)
  File "C:\Users\hong\Desktop\VS_codes\line_bot\venv\lib\site-packages\linebot\webhook.py", line 260, in handle
    self.__invoke_func(func, event, payload)
  File "C:\Users\hong\Desktop\VS_codes\line_bot\venv\lib\site-packages\linebot\webhook.py", line 272, in __invoke_func
    func(event)
  File "C:/Users/hong/Desktop/VS_codes/line_bot/app.py", line 198, in handle_message
    print('English:', translator.translate('我覺得今天天氣不好', dest='en').text)
  File "C:\Users\hong\Desktop\VS_codes\line_bot\venv\lib\site-packages\googletrans\client.py", line 182, in translate
    data = self._translate(text, dest, src, kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\hong\Desktop\VS_codes\line_bot\venv\lib\site-packages\googletrans\client.py", line 78, in _translate
    token = self.token_acquirer.do(text)
  File "C:\Users\hong\Desktop\VS_codes\line_bot\venv\lib\site-packages\googletrans\gtoken.py", line 194, in do
    self._update()
  File "C:\Users\hong\Desktop\VS_codes\line_bot\venv\lib\site-packages\googletrans\gtoken.py", line 62, in _update
    code = self.RE_TKK.search(r.text).group(1).replace('var ', '')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

And my code

translator = googletrans.Translator()
print(translator.translate('我覺得今天天氣不好', dest='en').text)