trans.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# This code shows an example of text translation from English to Simplified-Chinese.
# This code runs on Python 2.7.x and Python 3.x.
# You may install `requests` to run this code: pip install requests
# Please refer to `https://api.fanyi.baidu.com/doc/21` for complete api document

import requests
import random
import json
from hashlib import md5

# Set your own appid/appkey.
appid = 'INPUT_YOUR_APPID'
appkey = 'INPUT_YOUR_APPKEY'

# For list of language codes, please refer to `https://api.fanyi.baidu.com/doc/21`
from_lang = 'auto'
to_lang =  'zh'

endpoint = 'http://api.fanyi.baidu.com'
path = '/api/trans/vip/translate'
url = endpoint + path

query = 'Hello World! This is 1st paragraph.\nThis is 2nd paragraph.'

# Generate salt and sign
def make_md5(s, encoding='utf-8'):
    return md5(s.encode(encoding)).hexdigest()

salt = random.randint(32768, 65536)
sign = make_md5(appid + query + str(salt) + appkey)

# Build request
headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
payload = {'appid': appid, 'q': query, 'from': from_lang, 'to': to_lang, 'salt': salt, 'sign': sign}

# Send request
r = requests.post(url, params=payload, headers=headers)
result = r.json()

# Show response
print(json.dumps(result, indent=4, ensure_ascii=False))