README.md

gotr

Google translate in the command line.

Disclaimer:

This is not an officially supported way of accessing Google Translate. It can break at any time, so don't use it on production systems. (That said, it has been stable since the first release: 2014-01-06.)

Usage:
  gotr <from> <to> <phrase>
  gotr [-sdi] <from> <to> <phrase>
  gotr -h | --help
  gotr --history
  gotr --list

Options:
  -h, --help        Show help
  -s, --speech      Enable speech synthesis
  -d, --disablelog  Disable query loging into ~/.gotr_history
  -i, --ignore      Ignore extra meanings
  --list            Print list of available languages
  --history         Print log history in JSON

How to install

You can download binaries from releases.

Homebrew

brew tap sparrovv/tap
brew install gotr

Examples

$ gotr en pl equivocal
dwuznaczny
dwuznaczny, wymijający, podejrzany

$ gotr en zh "May the force be with you"
愿原力与你同在

Speech synthesis

Temporarly broken

Unfortunately it's not available to all languages and some less popular ones don't have it yet.

Logging

By default all queries are logged into ~/.gotr_history. It can be disabled with -d flag.

Tips

• To only check the pronunciation, specify <to> to be same as <from>.

$ gotr -s en en obstreperous
obstreperous

• Passing <from> and <to> might be cumbersome. You might consider creating aliases for your default languages:

alias ep="gotr en pl"

alias pe="gotr pl en"

alias gees="gotr -s en en"

Requirements

To play audio, install afplay(OSX) or mpg123.

Other similar projects:

• https://github.com/pawurb/termit (written in ruby)