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I am struggling to find a way to input multiple texts in Google Translate API. My setup includes the following things.

My Question : How to add multiple texts to the input. ? Because the following code is not making any sense to me.

data = {'q':'cat', 'q':'dog','source':source,'target':target,'format':'html'}

This is my code.

data = {'q':'This is Text1', 'q':'This is Text2', 'q':'This is Text3', source':source,'target':target,'format':'html'}
_req = urllib.request.Request("https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key="+API_KEY)
_req.add_header('Content-length', len(data))
_req.data = urllib.parse.urlencode(data).encode("utf-8")
response = Connector._get(_req,_session)

Connector._get() is in some other file and it internally calls urllib.request.build_opener with data.

Thanks!

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  • @Nadan Bhat Can you also show some of of python code you use to build your request to google api ? Commented Mar 3, 2018 at 11:10
  • @Hugo I have updated the question. Commented Mar 3, 2018 at 11:27
  • what solution did you found finally, can you share? Commented Feb 16, 2019 at 14:07
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    @T.Todua {'q':strings, 'source':source,'target':target,'format':'html'} where strings is a list. ['my text', 'second text'] Commented Feb 18, 2019 at 4:57
  • @NandanBhat ok thnx,. you could have posted that as answer. Commented Feb 18, 2019 at 6:52

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To post multiple parameters (with the same name) in Python for an HTTP request, you can use a list for the values. They'll be added to the URL like q=dog&q=cat.

Example:

headers = { 'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8' }
params = {'q': ['cat', 'dog'],'source':source,'target':target,'format':'html'}
response = requests.post(
            "https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=",
            headers=headers,
            params=params
        )

Specifically, params = {'q': ['cat', 'dog']} is relevant to your question.

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I do not have tested by myself, but it seems that you should build the data string to give as data argument to your python urllib.request method. So something like data = "{\n \'q\':{}\n \'q\':{} {} etc.".format(qstr,qstr, etc...)

After that you could want to make it more painfull to have several qs. You could make a loop and building your string with += operations.

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Yeah ! But what I was thinking, As I have mentioned in the question, in Google Translate API they have showed the implementation. And also it works when I try from REST client (PostMan). I think that shouldn't be that complicated. There must be some easy workaround.
Ok I have tried just to make q a list of str in data dictionnary and printing _req.data is not ugly, hahaha. Maybe try it data = { 'q': [str1,str2,str3] , etc. }

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