#!/bin/powershell <# .SYNTAX ./translate-text.ps1 [] [] .DESCRIPTION translates the given text into other languages .LINK https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell .NOTES Author: Markus Fleschutz / License: CC0 #> param([string]$SourceText = "", [string]$SourceLang = "en") if ($SourceText -eq "" ) { $SourceText = read-host "Enter text to translate" } $TargetLanguages = "af","da","de","el","es","hr","it","ja","ko","pl","pt","nl","ru","tr","uk","vi" function TranslateWithGoogle { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [Parameter(Position = 1, ValueFromPipeline = $true)] [ValidateNotNullorEmpty()] [string]$Text, [Parameter(Position = 2)] [ValidateNotNullorEmpty()] [string]$SourceLang, [Parameter(Position = 3)] [ValidateNotNullorEmpty()] [string]$TargetLang ) $URL = "https://translate.googleapis.com/translate_a/single?client=gtx&sl=$($SourceLang)&tl=$($TargetLang)&dt=t&q=$($Text)" $result = Invoke-RestMethod $URL return $result[0][0][0] } try { foreach($TargetLanguage in $TargetLanguages) { $Result = TranslateWithGoogle $SourceText $SourceLang $TargetLanguage write-output $TargetLanguage" : "$Result } exit 0 } catch { write-error "ERROR in line $($_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber): $($Error[0])" exit 1 }