CafeTran

 In the latest build:

- Access to DeepL.com API Free plan

But, I've just read this on the DeepL website:

A subscription to DeepL API Free does not offer access to DeepL Translator (both web and desktop apps) or an integration with CAT tools.

With CTE I've always used DeepL as a resource without paying a cent. (It works very well except when it stops working, and to make it work again I have to restart CTE, but I'm not complaining since it's a free service.) 

So, can DeepL API Free actually integrate with CTE for free, as opposed to what DeepL says?

Thanks

Hi Igor,

Please see here (this article is dated two months ago):

https://support.deepl.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021200939-DeepL-API-Free

But, given the ambiguity I will register for the free account and see what happens.

Thanks

I got the free API to work, and I admit that it's cleaner and maybe somewhat faster than the DeepL Web resource.Many thanks for this additional implementation.

But I have a request: I see that in the DeepL pane there is the choice to "stop automatic MT service" so that the API doesn't work automatically at every segment switch. Plus, there is the "Translate" button which makes the MT service work for that segment only. This is very good to avoid that the API add up uselessly to the character count, but this implies having to right-click on the DeepL APi pane first to reach the "Translate" button, right?

Is this technically possible at all?

Hello Igor,

That would be a pity, because the free API works well and better than the Web resource. But why disable it if it works? When I subscribed to the free API account, DeepL clearly said that I can switch to the pro version at any time, so this should imply that you were correct in your interpretation and the link I provided is perhaps an information ran out of control.

My solution to using the Deepl API (free or otherwise) on Windows is to use an AHK keyboard macro on selected text that calls a little python script, and pastes the result over the selection.

In some Linux distros, for example MX Linux, you can bind scripts to keyboard shortcuts directly.

About MacOS, I have no idea.

 Advantage of my solution - work everywhere, where you can type/edit text.

Can you share this Python script, Piotr?

There you go. Please note that modules like pyperclip, deepl and polyglot must be installed in Python first. I use polyglot to determine the language of text, though deepl api can do it on its own.

How to install stuff in Python, you figure out yourself. The AHK script at the end binds to right_alt_i on windows and calls the python script. On other systems there are other ways of interacting with the system clipboard, also for you to figure out.

PYTHON SCRIPT BELOW THE FOLLOWING LINE
---------------------------------------------------------------------
import pyperclip

import deepl

from polyglot.text import Text, Word

auth_key = 'your_auth_key_here'

schowek = pyperclip.paste()

# wynik = re.findall(r'\"(.+?)\"', schowek)

# tekst = wynik[0]

text = Text(schowek)

srclng = text.language.code

if srclng == "en":

    tgl = "PL"

else:

    tgl = "EN-US"

translator = deepl.Translator(auth_key)

result = translator.translate_text(schowek, target_lang=tgl)

pyperclip.copy(result.text)

PYTHON SCRIPT ENDS ABOVE THE EMPTY LINE, AHK SCRIPT BELOW THE FOLLOWING LINE

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

^!i::

Send ^c

RunWait D:\your_path_to\deeplapi.py,, Hide

Send ^v

Wow, that looks interesting. I already googled for the three modules you mention and it looks like they are easy to be found :).

Although there are solutions for macOS too, I'll certainly dive into your solution at some point.

Thank you!

(And I already learned that "schowek" means clipboard.)

Modules are installed into Python using pip or pip3 . About schowek, yeah, I usually don't pay much attention to the language I use to name my variables. :-)

And you can ignore this part in the python script:

# wynik = re.findall(r'\"(.+?)\"', schowek)

# tekst = wynik[0]

It is commented out and is a relic of an earlier version of the script used for a specific purpose.

I'll see if I can remove it from my earlier post.