Google Translate without API

Google translate is a great tool, and every one knows it well. [http://translate.google.com]

Here is how you can use it in .Net programatically without using Google API:

  Function Translate(ByVal WordToTranslate As String) As String

    Dim wc As New System.Net.WebClient

    wc.Proxy.Credentials = Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials

    Dim url As String = String.Format("http://www.google.com/" & _

                        "translate_t?hl=en&ie=UTF8&text={0}&" & _

                        "langpair=en|de", WordToTranslate)

    Dim result As String = wc.DownloadString(url)

    result = result.Substring(result.IndexOf("id=result_box") + 22)

    result = result.Substring(0, result.IndexOf("</div"))

    result = result.Substring(result.IndexOf(">") + 1)

    While result.IndexOf("<") = 0

      result = result.Substring(result.IndexOf("<"))

      result = result.Substring(result.IndexOf(">") + 1)

    End While

     TranslatedOutput As String = result.Substring(0, result.IndexOf("<"))

    Return TranslatedOutput

  End Function

This code translates English - German. What you have to do is -  just change the highlighted langpair or change the code to pass it as parameter.

Here is the list of language codes.

• Arabic – ar
• Bulgarian – bg
• Chinese (Simplified) – zh-CN
• Chinese (Traditional) – zh-TW (only available as a destination language)
• Croatian – hr
• Czech – cs
• Danish – da
• Dutch – nl
• English – en
• Finnish – fi
• French – fr
• German – de
• Greek – el
• Hindi – hi
• Italian – it
• Japanese – ja
• Korean – ko
• Norweigan – no
• Polish – pl
• Portuguese – pt
• Romanian – ro
• Russian – ru
• Spanish – es
• Swedish – sv