You need to use a Google API developer token in order to pay for use of
the Google Translate API. We check for the environment variable
GOOGLE_API_TOKEN so in your .bash_profile (or other shell init
script) you should have
export GOOGLE_API_TOKEN=...
Make sure to have Python 3 installed, e.g., on macOS, you can use Homebrew with
$ brew install python3
Clone this repo and cd into it, then run
$ python3 setup.py install
to install the executable translate-files.
Example usage, to convert from traditional (zh-TW) to simplified
(zh-CN):
$ translate-files --source zh-TW --target zh-CN test/tw/*.txt
converts each of the input files from traditional to simplified output
files with an extra extension .output added to the original files'
paths.
Note: as usual, if you want to do something like convert an entire directory tree, using the shell to generate all the paths:
$ find rootDir -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 translate-files --source zh-TW --target zh-CN
will run translate-files on all .txt files under rootDir
recursively.