“google translate” vs “translate api”

Question

I hear that the Translate API will be charged for, but what exactly prevents us form using the free Google Translate service here for free ? Otherwise put, what are the limi

Answer 1

According to the link below, nothing prevents you.

https://translate.googleapis.com/translate_a/single?client=gtx&sl=en&tl=es&dt=t&q=Hello

Set your requests content-type to application/json and it fixes the weird formatting, I found the uri pattern after bashing around the google websites for a while.

I wouldn't recommend translating the bible with it but I've done ~10k words this week without an issue.

If anyone finds another working client value I'd love to know.