Google Cloud Translation

Bulk-translate any list of text into 130+ languages using Google's Cloud Translation API — no glue code, no auth headaches, just paste, run, and export.

What you get

• One translation per input string — order preserved, indexed for easy joins
• Auto-detect source language by default, or lock it in with an ISO 639-1 code
• HTML-safe mode that preserves tags and entities during translation
• Smart batching — up to 100 strings and 25,000 characters per API request, so 10,000 short rows go through in seconds
• Per-row error tolerance — a failed batch logs an error on each row in that batch and the run keeps going
• Character-level metering so you can see exactly what each row cost

Use cases

• Localise scraped product descriptions for multi-region ecommerce stores
• Translate support tickets and reviews before piping them into sentiment analysis or LLM summarisation
• Multilingual content pipelines — push blog posts, FAQs, or marketing copy through one actor, get N language variants back
• Ecommerce product translation — bulk-localise titles, descriptions, and attribute values across catalogues
• Translate scraped reviews/comments from any platform (Trustpilot, Amazon, Google Maps, TikTok) into one working language for analysis

How to use

1. Paste your strings into the Texts field — one per entry
2. Set Target Language (ISO 639-1 code, e.g. es, fr, de, ja, zh-CN)
3. Optionally set Source Language — leave empty to auto-detect per row
4. Choose Format: text (default) or html if your strings contain markup
5. Run the actor — results land in the Dataset tab, one row per input string

Full list of supported language codes: https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/languages

Output format

Each dataset record:

{
  "index": 1,
  "originalText": "Hello, world",
  "translatedText": "Hola, mundo",
  "detectedSourceLanguage": "en",
  "targetLanguage": "es",
  "characterCount": 12,
  "status": "success",
  "error": null
}

• index is 1-based and matches the order of your input
• detectedSourceLanguage is populated when source was auto-detected; null if you passed an explicit source
• characterCount is the length of the original input string — used for pricing visibility
• On failure, status is "error", translatedText is null, and error contains the reason — the run continues with the remaining rows

Pricing & credits

This actor is pay-per-event — you only pay for what you translate.

• Actor start — a small flat fee per run
• Characters translated — billed in 100-character units, rounded up per successfully translated row. A 12-character string costs 1 unit; a 250-character string costs 3 units.
• Failed rows are not charged.

See the actor's pricing tab in the Apify Console for current rates.