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Web Translator API

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97 points kozika | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 08:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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lynx97 ◴[25 Jun 25 10:35 UTC] No.44375695[source]▶
Can we please NOT autotranslate the web? I have yet to find a site where the quality of autotranslate does not make me stop using that site. I was already irritated when google started to show me de.wikipedia.org articles adespite me explicitly searching for the english article name. Then came Etsy, where the autotranslate quality was so bad I stopped using the site altogether.
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1. sandstrom ◴[25 Jun 25 13:09 UTC] No.44376905[source]▶
This is not auto-translation.

Rather, it's an API developers can use to add inline translation to web apps.

For example, under a comment in your app, you can (a) detect the language, and (b) if it's different from the current users/browsers language, offer to translate it with a small link (c) if the user clicks the link, the content is translated to their language.