Metaphrase

A simple command line applilcaition for translating languages using ISO-639-1 Codes

To view the list of supported languages, check https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/languages

Run Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/mainaksamuel/metaphrase.git

Go to the project directory

  cd metaphrase

Install metaphrase

  python setup.py install

Usage/Examples

Use the ISO-639-1 language codes for setting the source --sl and target --tl languages.

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Getting help

  metaphrase --help               # general help
  metaphrase translate --help     # help with translating texts

Setting the target language using the --tl flag

  metaphrase translate --tl=de --text="How are you?"

Setting source language using the --sl flag

  metaphrase translate --sl=en --tl=es --text="How was your day?"

Getting text and target language prompts.

  $ metaphrase translate ↵
  Enter text to translate: Howdy ↵
  Enter the target language ISO-639-1 Code to translate to: fr ↵

License

MIT