NAME

REST::Google::Translate - OO interface to Google Translate (aka Languages) API

SYNOPSIS

        use REST::Google::Translate;
        REST::Google::Translate->http_referer('http://example.com');
        my $res = REST::Google::Translate->new(
                q => 'hello world',
                langpair => 'en|it'
        );
        die "response status failure" if $res->responseStatus != 200;
        my $translated = $res->responseData->translatedText;
        printf "Italian translation: %s\n", $translated;

DESCRIPTION

"REST::Google::Translate" provides OO interface to Google REST (aka AJAX) API for languages translation.

METHODS

__PACKAGE__->http_referer()

Get/set HTTP "Referer" header.

Note: Google says that you should supply a valid HTTP referer header each time you perform a request to their AJAX API, so new() raises warning unless referer is specified.

__PACKAGE__->new()

"q" argument should contain a phrase for translation. "langpair" is used to specify translation languages.

According to Google API documentation the langpair languages should be separated by "|" (pipe) sign. For complete list of language pairs and other arguments please refer to 'Google Translate AJAX API' documentation. E.g.:

        my $res = REST::Google::Translate->new(
                q => 'hello world',
                langpair => 'en|it'
        );
    

The code above will perform a following HTTP GET request:

        http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=hello%20world&langpair=en%7Cit
    

Note: You can left protocol version number unspecified while making your searches since "v=1.0" is passed by default.

responseData

To access translated text you should use "responseData" method as follows

        $translated_text = $res->responseData->translatedText
    

SEE ALSO

REST::Google - the base class for this module;

<http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#fonje> - Google Translate AJAX API documentation;

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2008, Eugen Sobchenko <ejs@cpan.org> and Sergey Sinkovskiy <glorybox@cpan.org>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.