Replaced translation services. Fixes #355

doc/changelog.md

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 * TWBlue can upload images in Tweets and replies again. ([#240,](https://github.com/manuelcortez/TWBlue/issues/240))
 * Fixed the way we use to count characters in Twitter. The new methods in TWBlue take into account special characters and URLS as documented in Twitter. ([#199,](https://github.com/manuelcortez/TWBlue/issues/199) [#315](https://github.com/manuelcortez/TWBlue/issues/315))
 * Proxy support now works as expected.
+* Changed translation service from yandex.translate to Google Translator. ([#355,](https://github.com/manuelcortez/TWBlue/issues/355))
 * And more. ([#352,](https://github.com/manuelcortez/TWBlue/issues/352))
 
 ## Changes in version 0.95

requirements.txt

@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ futures
 winpaths
 PySocks
 win_inet_pton
-yandex.translate
+# Install the latest RC of this lib
+# see https://github.com/ssut/py-googletrans/issues/234
+googletrans==4.0.0-rc1
 idna<3,>=2.5
 chardet
 urllib3

src/extra/translator/translator.py

@@ -1,9 +1,19 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+import logging
 from googletrans import Translator, LANGUAGES
 
+log = logging.getLogger("extras.translator")
+
+# create a single translator instance
+# see https://github.com/ssut/py-googletrans/issues/234
+t = None
+
 def translate(text="", target="en"):
+	global t
+	log.debug("Received translation request for language %s, text=%s" % (target, text))
+	if t == None:
 		t = Translator()
-	vars = dict(text=text, dst=target)
+	vars = dict(text=text, dest=target)
 	return t.translate(**vars).text
 
 supported_langs = None
@@ -103,4 +113,4 @@ languages = {
 }
 
 def available_languages():
-	return languages
+	return dict(sorted(languages.items(), key=lambda x: x[1]))