Translator Plugin (Google, Bing) for SublimeText 3/4

Version: 3.6.0, [Google] & [Bing] translate, supported 194+ languages.

This plugin uses the public Google/Bing web endpoints, so no API key is needed and it works fast. These endpoints are unofficial and can break if Google/Bing change their URL schema or page markup.

This version includes Google & Bing translate, text readability analysis and statistics.

Please update the plugin, switch the engine to google, and check the result; then let me know how it went by leaving a comment in the relevant GitHub issue (https://github.com/dmytrovoytko/SublimeText-Translate/issues/). If the issue persists, switch back to bing.

🎯 Features:

• 194+ languages supported
• SublimeText 3 & 4 supported (4215 tested)
• Autodetect source language
• Ability to specify source & target languages in settings
• Ability to choose the target language in context menu
• Works without VPN/proxies in China (choose 'bingcn' engine)
• 3 work modes:
  • replace selected text with translation,
  • insert translation after it (default)
  • to_buffer - translation goes to clipboard (without changing the text)
• Ability to show translation in popup without changing original text
• Ability to translate your clipboard / current word if no text selected
• In-memory translation cache, should help reduce the frequency of HTTP 429 errors
• Adjustable delay between batch API calls, should help reduce the frequency of HTTP 429 errors
• Ability to replace line breaks inside text while translating (with space, comma, etc), useful to translate .po files
• Ability to analyze text readability and statistics (including Automated Readability Index, Coleman-Liau Index) to improve your documentation or SEO texts.

🚀 How to Use

Translate

1. Select some text in the editor (or place the cursor on a word).
2. Run Translate selected text command:

• via Tools ➡️ Translator ➡️ Translate selected text
• via Command Palette, Ctrl+Shift+P (⌘Cmd+Shift+P in OSX) > Translate selected text
• via hotkey (disabled by default, see Key Bindings below)

3. If you want translation to replace the original text, change results_mode to replace in settings.
4. If you just want to see translation without changing your text, set show_popup to true in settings.
5. To change the default target language, change target_language in settings.
6. Additional commands:

• to translate just once into a different language (without changing your default target_language setting): select text, run Translate selected to..., then pick the language from the list
• you can translate clipboard via Tools ➡️ Translator ➡️ Translate clipboard
• you can clear translation cache via Tools ➡️ Translator ➡️ Clear translation cache

7. Find supported languages via Tools ➡️ Translator ➡️ Print supported languages to console

Check readability

1. Select some text in the editor.
2. Run Analyze text command:

• via Tools ➡️ Translator ➡️ Analyze text
• via Command Palette, Ctrl+Shift+P (⌘Cmd+Shift+P in OSX) > Analyze text
• via hotkey (disabled by default, see Key Bindings below)

3. To clear highlights, use Tools ➡️ Translator ➡️ Clear Analysis highlights.

Key Bindings (optional)

No hotkeys are enabled by default. To enable them, go to Preferences ➡️ Package Settings ➡️ Translator ➡️ Key Bindings and remove // or add, for example:

[
    {"keys": ["ctrl+alt+g"], "command": "translator"},
    {"keys": ["ctrl+shift+alt+g"], "command": "translator_to"},
    {"keys": ["ctrl+alt+b"], "command": "translator_from_buffer"},
    {"keys": ["ctrl+alt+a"], "command": "translator_text_analysis"}
]

🛠️ Commands

• Translate selected text - translates selected text based on your settings
• Translate selected to... - you choose the target language before translation
• Translate clipboard - translates text of your clipboard based on your settings
• Translator: Print supported languages to console - to see available languages for changing translation settings
• Analyze text - to see text statistics, readability checks and highlights
• Clear Analysis highlights - to clear text analysis highlights

Installation

Via Package Control (recommended)

• If you don't have Package Control, follow this instruction
• Open the Command Palette (Tools ➡️ Command Palette… )
• Search for and choose “Package Control: Install Package” (give it a few seconds to return a list of available packages)
• Search for “Translator” and install.

🧰 Settings

via Preferences ➡️ Package settings ➡️ Translator ➡️ Settings

{
    "engine": "google",           // "google", "bing", 'bingcn' for cn.bing.com, 'googlehk' for google.com.hk
    "source_language": "",        // Leave empty for Auto detection
    "target_language": "en",      // ! Must be specified
    "results_mode": "insert",     // "insert", "replace" or "to_buffer"
    "show_popup": false,          // false or true
    "translation_cache": true,    // false or true, if not set default = true
    "translation_cache_size": 200,// if not set default = 200
    "translate_batch_delay": 0.5, // seconds between API calls, 0 disables
    "replace_linebreaks": false,  // false or true
    "linebreak_replacement": " ", // could be a space, comma, semicolon, etc
    "analysis_language": "en"     // Text Analysis: "en", "uk" (other values fall back to "en")
}

Troubleshooting

• !!Google translate error!! / !!Bing translate error!!: switch engine (google <-> bing), shorten the text (limit is ~1000 chars), and check console (View ➡️ Show Console).
• HTTP Error 429 / temporary ban / captcha: pause for an hour or more, then retry with fewer requests. Also opening https://translate.google.com / https://www.bing.com/translator (after a pause) may help (check captcha) - to show you're not a robot. If multi-select translates hit 429, experiment with increasing translate_batch_delay (e.g. 1.0).
• Bing Max retries exceeded / session errors: the plugin reuses one session per engine setup (captcha refreshes it automatically); if Bing hard-blocks you, switch engine or pause before retrying.
• Just installed and nothing works: restart Sublime Text so requests / regex dependencies finish installing, then retry.
• Wrong target language or empty output: confirm target_language is set, and source_language is empty for auto-detect.
• Copy diagnostics to report your issue via Tools ➡️ Translator ➡️ Copy diagnostics for issue reports.

📦️ Plugin repository at GitHub

Translation plugin (multi-engine, fast) for SublimeText 3 & 4

Feedback

• Something broken? Report it here: https://github.com/dmytrovoytko/SublimeText-Translate/issues/new?template=bug_report.md (please paste your engine, Sublime build, and console excerpt)
• Have an idea? Propose it here: https://github.com/dmytrovoytko/SublimeText-Translate/issues/new?template=feature_request.md
• Like the plugin? ⭐️Star⭐️ my repo: https://github.com/dmytrovoytko/SublimeText-Translate to help other people discover it 🙏

Made with ❤️ in Ukraine 🇺🇦 Dmytro Voytko https://github.com/dmytrovoytko/

📄 License

MIT

Credits

• Inspired by old Inline Google Translate package (by MTMGroup) stopped working as Google changed API.
• Used Bing translate API approach, 谢谢!
• Used Sentence-splitter for text analysis