Switched to the microsoft translator

README.md

@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ setuptools install a script, called easy_install. You can find it in the python
 * arrow==0.6
 * markdown
 * winpaths
+* microsofttranslator
 
 easy_install will automatically get the additional libraries that these packages need to work properly.
 Run the following command to quickly install and upgrade all packages and their dependencies:

src/controller/messages.py

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class basicTweet(object):
  def translate(self, event=None):
   dlg = translator.gui.translateDialog()
   if dlg.get_response() == widgetUtils.OK:
-   text_to_translate = self.message.get_text().encode("utf-8")
+   text_to_translate = self.message.get_text()
    source = [x[0] for x in translator.translator.available_languages()][dlg.get("source_lang")]
    dest = [x[0] for x in translator.translator.available_languages()][dlg.get("dest_lang")]
    msg = translator.translator.translate(text=text_to_translate, source=source, target=dest)

src/extra/translator/translator.py

@@ -1,153 +1,11 @@
-# encoding: utf-8
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-#
+import keys
-# Copyright (C) 2013 Mesar Hameed <mhameed@src.gnome.org>
+from microsofttranslator import Translator
-# This file is covered by the GNU General Public License.
 
-import os
+def translate(text="", source="auto", target="en"):
-import re
+	t = Translator("twblue", "4KZA26GYIfmVAqQA/z16Hlucbg64hVSDTIpRjT2FqIU=")
-import sys
+	return t.translate(text, target).encode("utf-8")
-import threading
-from time import sleep
-from random import randint
-import logging
-log = logging.getLogger("translator")
-import urllib2
 
-# Each group has to be a class of possible breaking points for the writing script.
-# Usually this is the major syntax marks, such as:
-# full stop, comma, exclaim, question, etc.
-arabicBreaks = u'[،؛؟]'
-# Thanks to Talori in the NVDA irc room:
-# U+3000 to U+303F, U+FE10 to U+FE1F, U+FE30 to U+FE6F, U+FF01 to U+FF60
-chineseBreaks = u'[　-〿︐-︟︰-﹯！-｠]'
-latinBreaks = r'[.,!?;:\n]'
-splitReg = re.compile(u"{arabic}|{chinese}|{latin}".format(arabic=arabicBreaks, chinese=chineseBreaks, latin=latinBreaks))
-
-def translate(text, source="auto", target="en"):
-	if source == "": source = "auto"
-	t = Translator(lang_from=source, lang_to=target, text=text)
-	t.start()
-	while t.isAlive():
-		sleep(0.1)
-	t.join()
-	return t.translation
-
-def splitChunks(text, chunksize):
-	pos = 0
-	potentialPos = 0
-	for splitMark in splitReg.finditer(text):
-		if (splitMark.start() - pos +1) < chunksize:
-			potentialPos = splitMark.start()
-			continue
-		else:
-			yield text[pos:potentialPos+1]
-			pos = potentialPos + 1
-			potentialPos = splitMark.start()
-	yield text[pos:]
-
-class Translator(threading.Thread):
-
-	def __init__(self, lang_from, lang_to, text, lang_swap=None, chunksize=350, *args, **kwargs):
-		super(Translator, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-		self._stop = threading.Event()
-		self.text = text
-		self.chunksize = chunksize
-		self.lang_to = lang_to
-		self.lang_from = lang_from
-		self.lang_swap = lang_swap
-		self.translation = ''
-		self.lang_translated = ''
-		self.firstChunk = True
-
-	def stop(self):
-		self._stop.set()
-
-	def run(self):
-		for chunk in splitChunks(self.text, self.chunksize):
-			# Make sure we don't send requests to google too often.
-			# Try to simulate a human.
-			if not self.firstChunk:
-				sleep(randint(1, 10))
-			req = self.buildRequest(chunk, self.lang_from, self.lang_to)
-			try:
-				response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
-				translation, lang_translated = self.parseData(response)
-				if self.firstChunk and self.lang_from == "auto" and  lang_translated == self.lang_to and self.lang_swap is not None:
-					self.lang_to = self.lang_swap
-					self.firstChunk = False
-					req = self.buildRequest(chunk.encode('utf-8'), self.lang_from, self.lang_to)
-					response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
-					translation, lang_translated = self.parseData(response)
-			except Exception as e:
-				log.exception("Can not translate text '%s'" %chunk)
-				# We have probably been blocked, so stop trying to translate.
-				raise e
-			self.translation += translation
-		# some adjustment, better to do on full text
-		self.translation = self.fixNewlines(self.translation)
-		self.lang_translated = lang_translated
-
-	def buildRequest(self, text, lang_from, lang_to):
-		"""Build POST request which will be sent to Google."""
-		urlTemplate = 'http://translate.google.com/translate_a/single?client=t&sl={lang_from}&tl={lang_to}&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&dt=t&dt=bd&tk='
-		url = urlTemplate.format(lang_from=lang_from, lang_to=lang_to)
-		header = {'User-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0', 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
-		data = 'text=%s' %urllib2.quote(text)
-		req = urllib2.Request(url, data, header)
-		return req
-
-	def parseData(self, response):
-		"""Parse unstructured response."""
-		data = response.readlines()[0]
-		# get segments with couples ["translation","original text"]
-		l1, l2 = data.split(']],', 1)
-		translation = l1[3:]
-		if l2.startswith('[[\"'):
-			# get list of synonyms
-			syn = l2[l2.find(',[')+1:l2.find(']')].split(',')
-			temp = ', '.join([x.replace('\"', '') for x in syn])
-		else:
-			# get a list with each couple as item
-			sentences = translation.split('],[')
-			temp = ''
-			# get translation, removing first char (quote symbol)
-			for item in sentences:
-				item = item.split('\",\"', 1)[0][1:]
-				# join all translations
-				temp = ' '.join([temp, item])
-		translation = temp.decode('string-escape').decode('utf-8')
-		translation = self.fixPunctuation(translation)
-		# get the language of original text
-		tempLang = data.partition(']],,\"')[2]
-		lang = tempLang[:tempLang.find('\"')]
-		if lang == '':
-			lang = _("unavailable")
-		return translation, lang
-
-	def fixPunctuation(self, translation):
-		"""Clean text from space before punctuation symbol."""
-		# list of potentially positions of spaces to remove
-		spacePos = []
-		for puncMark in splitReg.finditer(translation):
-			spacePos.append(puncMark.start()-1)
-		if len(spacePos) == 0:
-			return translation
-		fixedTranslation = ''
-		for n in xrange(0,len(translation)):
-			temp = translation[n]
-			if n in spacePos and temp == ' ':
-				continue
-			else:
-				fixedTranslation += temp
-		return fixedTranslation
-
-	def fixNewlines(self, translation):
-		"""Adjust newlines and (subsequent or double) spaces."""
-		fixes = [('\r\n ', '\r\n'), ('\n ', '\r\n'), ('  ', ' ')]
-		for fix in fixes:
-			translation = translation.replace(fix[0], fix[1])
-		# first char is a space, so...
-		return translation[1:]
 
 languages = {
   "af": _(u"Afrikaans"),