#!/snap/bin/powershell

<#

.SYNTAX ./translate-text.ps1 [<text>] [<source-lang>]

.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

}