Have you ever downloaded Google Translate extension to your browser?
Total size is 9.6MB and 9.5MB is from JavaScript files. This is not all, if you look inside, there are many duplicated code and request your translations is not the only one thing the extension does as background work.
If you look at translator.py you will see GTranslator class. It have two methods, query and speech. That class has only 57 lines and the entire translator is about 450 lines of code (Gui included). There is no hidden functionality or something else. Google Translator otherhand it has.
I think is clear now why.
- If you doesn't have pip installed, proceed with it installation here.
- Python3.8+ is required (i didn't tested with another version).
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
--cliWaits at terminal level for any clipboard contents and print translation on it.--clipboard-detection|-cbdWaits as running process for any clipboard contents and show the gui with the content already translated. (Usefull for read documents outside browser). But becarefull, everything you copy will be sended to Google's API servers.--guiShow the gui to user interactive use.
The process keeps waiting for clipboard contents, once you copy something the will gui appears with the translation already done. After the popup window is closed clipboard is cleaned automatically. To start the process again just copy some text and the gui will appears inmediatelly.
Ctrl-c at terminal level or kill -2 $(ps a | grep translator.py | awk 'NR == 1 {print $1;}') if was started as background process.
I use Ubuntu widh dwm, dmenu and clipmenu as a minimal setup, i think it shoud run at least on Mac but not sure about Window.
As you can see is a minimal gui with dark mode, you can customize/modify everything as you like, but becarefull night reading with day mode colors could fry your eyes.
This is the file where you must put all available languages you want. There is a complete list of supported languages at this file to take from. Again you must customized to your needs.