LibreTranslate

Ruby wrapper to communicate with LibreTranslate API.

Installation

Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:

$ bundle add libretranslate

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

$ gem install libretranslate

If you're working on a Ruby on Rails application, generate the initializer to set your configuration:

$ rails generate libretranslate:install

Else, add the following in your code and modify it to your configuration:

require "libretranslate"

LibreTranslate.configure do |config|
  config.base_url = "https://libretranslate.com"
  config.api_key = ""
end

Usage

Detect the language of a single text

LibreTranslate.detect("Hello world!")

Translate text from one language to another

# With source and target languages
LibreTranslate.translate("Hello world!", source: "en", target: "fr")
# With source detection
LibreTranslate.translate("Hello world!", source: "auto", target: "fr")
# With HTML
LibreTranslate.translate("Hello <b>world</b>!", source: "en", target: "fr", format: "html")

Recover the list of supported languages

LibreTranslate.languages

Recover interface-specific settings

LibreTranslate.frontend_settings

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/noesya/libretranslate. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the Libretranslate project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.