# Google Cloud Translation (`seemuapps/google-cloud-translation`) Actor Translate a list of texts into any target language using the Google Cloud Translation API. Bulk-translate scraped content, product descriptions, reviews, or support tickets at scale. - **URL**: https://apify.com/seemuapps/google-cloud-translation.md - **Developed by:** [Andrew](https://apify.com/seemuapps) (community) - **Categories:** Developer tools, AI, Automation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $5.00 / 1,000 characters translated (per 100)s This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## 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: ### Output format Each dataset record: ```json { "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. # Actor input Schema ## `texts` (type: `array`): List of text strings to translate. Each entry is translated independently. ## `target` (type: `string`): ISO 639-1 language code to translate into (e.g. 'es', 'fr', 'de', 'ja', 'zh-CN'). See https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/languages. ## `source` (type: `string`): ISO 639-1 source language code. Leave empty to let Google auto-detect the source language for each text. ## `format` (type: `string`): How the input texts should be interpreted. Use 'html' to preserve HTML markup during translation. ## Actor input object example ```json { "texts": [ "Hello, world", "How are you today?", "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" ], "target": "es", "format": "text" } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): One record per input text: index, originalText, translatedText, detectedSourceLanguage, targetLanguage, characterCount, status, error. # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "texts": [ "Hello, world", "How are you today?", "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("seemuapps/google-cloud-translation").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "texts": [ "Hello, world", "How are you today?", "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", ] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("seemuapps/google-cloud-translation").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "texts": [ "Hello, world", "How are you today?", "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" ] }' | apify call seemuapps/google-cloud-translation --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=seemuapps/google-cloud-translation", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Google Cloud Translation", "description": "Translate a list of texts into any target language using the Google Cloud Translation API. Bulk-translate scraped content, product descriptions, reviews, or support tickets at scale.", "version": "1.0", "x-build-id": "sHNd7jOZGBZcixTy0" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/seemuapps~google-cloud-translation/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-seemuapps-google-cloud-translation", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/seemuapps~google-cloud-translation/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-seemuapps-google-cloud-translation", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/seemuapps~google-cloud-translation/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-seemuapps-google-cloud-translation", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "texts", "target" ], "properties": { "texts": { "title": "Texts", "type": "array", "description": "List of text strings to translate. Each entry is translated independently.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "target": { "title": "Target Language", "type": "string", "description": "ISO 639-1 language code to translate into (e.g. 'es', 'fr', 'de', 'ja', 'zh-CN'). See https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/languages.", "default": "es" }, "source": { "title": "Source Language (optional)", "type": "string", "description": "ISO 639-1 source language code. Leave empty to let Google auto-detect the source language for each text." }, "format": { "title": "Format", "enum": [ "text", "html" ], "type": "string", "description": "How the input texts should be interpreted. Use 'html' to preserve HTML markup during translation.", "default": "text" } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```