How to use about get-med

[serebrov]

These scripts were written around 5 years ago and google translate UI has changed, so they are not fully functional.
I did some review and cleanup, the translation by url still works, so as the gethtml.py script. What it does is: download the HTML, save it, pass the html file URL to google translate (for example, http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=ru&u=https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2093425/equation-of-a-plane-passing-through-intersection-of-two-planes-and-parallel-to-a), download and save the translated page.
The "core" translation feature is this function:

get-med/browser.py

Lines 110 to 120 in 4d96dca

	def translate_page(browser, url):
	t_url = 'http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=ru&u=' + urllib.quote(url)
	r = browser.open(t_url)
	soup = BeautifulSoup(r.read())
	t_url = soup.find_all('iframe')[0].get('src')
	if t_url[0:4] != 'http':
	t_url = 'http://translate.google.com' + t_url
	try:
	return download_page(browser, t_url, url)
	except Exception as e:
	print 'Can not translate page: ' + url + 't_url: ' + t_url + ' error: ' + str(e)

For PDFs I've did this: download PDF, convert it to html, translate html via google translate (the getpdf.py) - this doesn't work now because I was using the form on the google translate page and it now works differently than before.
But now the translation by URL also works for PDFs (for example
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=ru&u=http://pages.mtu.edu/~fmorriso/MathType-tipstricks-full.pdf), so you can quite easily adopt the approach used for htmls (or even use the gethtml.py script directly).

Note: I am not 100% sure, but I think the automated usage of google translate may violate Google TOS. It might be OK to translate few files for your personal use in a way I did here, but you shouldn't use this approach in the commercial software, instead use the translation API: https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/

[zaixi]

Thanks, this can already help me, I just translate a few PDFs personally.