Translate.google.com Analysis [closed]

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I am currently developing a tool to translate words on the fly with googles translate website. To better understand googles querys I have to analyse their GET parameters.

This is an example created with language detection on, result language de and text 'good' at www.translate.google.com

1. client   t
2. hl   de // Home language
3. ie   UTF-8 // Encoding
4. it   sel.124835
5. multires 1
6. oe   UTF-8
7. otf  1
8. otf  1
9. prev conf
10. psl en // 'Language from' before (when you change it)
11. ptl de // 'Language to' before (when you change it)
12. sc  1
13. sl  auto // Language to translate from, source language
14. ssel    3
15. ssel    3
16. text    good // Text to translate
17. tl  de // Language to translate to, target language
18. tsel    0
19. tsel    0
20. uptl    de

Question: what do the parameters I have not commented mean?

Answer 1

If you're trying to reverse-engineer something like someone's GET parameters, then that's your goal, so do it! But a better option would be to use their supported and documented Translate API.

Answer 2

Do not scrape their webpage to hack together an API, they'll eventually shut you off, they're not big fans of that type of thing.

Here is a link to their API documentation for Google Translate.

https://developers.google.com/translate/