Add Google Translate

[Fruggy]

Add Google Translate

[mike-ward]

What are you expecting for look and feel (how should the UI present this feature and how to activate it)?

[Fruggy]

I would guess if the language isn't showing the preferred one then a button would be there to translate it to the preferred language.

I'm not good at this stuff and when I brought it up to you in email you asked me to put it here so I did.

[mike-ward]

I'll mimic what twitter does in their UI. It's sensible and doesn't involve popups.

[mike-ward]

Anyone interested in trying my first attempt at this? https://github.com/mike-ward/tweetz/suites/1609622510/artifacts/29447486

[Fruggy]

Works great Mike! Thanks!

[mike-ward]

This one is close to final. Also adds translate to quoted and related content when appropriate.

https://github.com/mike-ward/tweetz/suites/1612589201/artifacts/29536334

[Fruggy]

Thanks

[mike-ward]

OK, one small problem with the translation feature. It's not free. Currently, I'm using Microsoft's service because its free tier is the most generous (2M chars per month). I suspect that number will be exceeded at some point. The only sensible work around is to add some settings to allow folks to get/use their own service key from Microsoft. It's free but you do have to give them a credit card. Thoughts?

[Fruggy]

If you have to add it, it's fine.
I'm wondering why Google Translate and Microsoft are not free to use and are they the same?

[mike-ward]

Both API's are free to use to a point.

Google starts charging $15 per 1 million characters after the first 500,000 characters.

Microsoft starts charging $10 per 1 million characters after the first 2M characters.

[Fruggy]

Does this mean the free limit has been reached?
I've been getting it for a few days now.
I also see nowhere to put the API from Google or Microsoft.

[mike-ward]

Could not get Microsoft to put a spending cap on my credit card for this service. They are not forthcoming about this and after a few calls had to cancel.

Google's API is damn near impossible to use and again, I don't see a way to limit spending.

Other providers require a minimum of $25 per month and again, credit cards.

Usage was less than 10,000 chars per day. Well below limits but again, without a spending cap, not worth the risk.

I've got another solution in the works but it only supports 7 languages (en, ar, fr, de, it, pt, ru). Should have something later today.

As to adding your own keys to an API, that's more complicated than it seems. In the case of the Microsoft API you need 3 other pieces of info besides the API key. Not something I want to try to support.

[mike-ward]

fixed in v2.9.1