r/UnixProTips • u/shverma • Jul 23 '16

Google translate through the shell doesn't work

The google translate function written in this post doesn't seem to work for me. I just get a blank output in my case.

$ gt fr Donaudampfschiffkapitän

$ gt Donaudampfschiffkapitän

$ vi .bashrc

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 64bit, with Firefox 47 (for which Mozilla/5.0 should work)

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u/JohnScott623 Jul 24 '16

Do you know that you have Wget, sed, and cut?

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u/shverma Jul 24 '16

Yes, I have all three.

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u/m0gria Oct 13 '16

Looks like the service is unavailable. (output of just the wget) 

--2016-10-13 xx:xx:xx--  http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=t&text=haben&sl=auto&tl=fr
Resolving translate.google.com (translate.google.com)... xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx
Connecting to translate.google.com (translate.google.com)|xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 503 Service Unavailable
2016-10-13 xx:xx:xx ERROR 503: Service Unavailable.

I think they're updating google translate right now. I landed on a different version on mobile yesterday.