translate.py

import http.client
import json
import ssl


_unverified_context = ssl._create_unverified_context()

def translate(to_translate, to_language="auto", from_language="auto"):
    import re
    import html    
    from urllib.parse import quote
    agent = {'User-Agent':
         "Mozilla/4.0 (\
        compatible;\
        MSIE 6.0;\
        Windows NT 5.1;\
        SV1;\
        .NET CLR 1.1.4322;\
        .NET CLR 2.0.50727;\
        .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30\
        )"}
    base_link = "/m?tl=%s&sl=%s&q=%s"        
    to_translate = quote(to_translate, safe="")
    link = base_link % (to_language, from_language, to_translate)    
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("translate.google.com",context = _unverified_context)    
    conn.request("GET", link,headers=agent)
    data=conn.getresponse().read().decode("utf-8")    
    expr = r'(?s)class="(?:t0|result-container)">(.*?)<'
    re_result = re.findall(expr, data)
    if (len(re_result) == 0):
        result = ""
    else:
        result = html.unescape(re_result[0])
    return (result)