3813: Support Google Translate API v3 - Composr CMS feature tracker

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3813	Composr	core	public	2019-06-08 16:07	2019-11-14 21:34

Reporter	Chris Graham	Assigned To	Guest
Priority	normal	Severity	feature
Status	new	Resolution	open

Summary	3813: Support Google Translate API v3
Description	https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/intro-to-v3 They offer a free tier (I don't believe they did so before). They provide support for defining terms... so we could provide some kind of editable master-list of terms that should not be translated.
Tags	Type: External dependency, Type: Internationalisation
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Chris Graham 2019-07-08 16:15 administrator ~6027	Actually the free tier is a pain - you need to put in credit card information, and they'll charge you if you go over a threshold. You can probably put limits on your keys to avoid that, but I don't think we should expect any users to need to risk paying for stuff for inbuilt Composr functionality. Better to consider integrating other translate APIs, here are the options I've found: - Microsoft (best choice IMO) - Yandex - IBM Watson (I don't trust it to continue to work reliably TBH, as it's translation API is a minor player)

Chris Graham 2019-07-08 16:28 administrator ~6028	Currently the 'translation' v11 unit test is failing as our free Google API year expired. I plan to fix that by making the Composr v11 translation API support multiple backends, using hooks, as I did for the weather API. I'm not sure what we'll do with the Google part of it - probably I'll keep testing working by moving our API key onto a paid tier with low usage limits, so it doesn't trigger a fee.

Chris Graham 2019-07-30 01:58 administrator ~6058	The v3 API requires 'service accounts', not API keys, making it more complex (asking anyone who's not a programmer to setup service accounts is too much IMO, especially because with API keys we can share a key across multiple APIs). It is also still in beta. So we can forget that for now at least.

Chris Graham 2019-07-30 17:22 administrator ~6059	Bing Translator support is now added. So a user can choose between Google Translate, or Bing Translator.

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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2019-06-08 16:07	Chris Graham	New Issue
2019-06-08 16:07	Chris Graham	Tag Attached: Type: Internationalisation
2019-06-27 17:37	Chris Graham	Tag Attached: Roadmap: v11
2019-06-27 17:38	Chris Graham	Tag Attached: Type: External dependency
2019-07-08 16:15	Chris Graham	Note Added: 0006027
2019-07-08 16:28	Chris Graham	Note Added: 0006028
2019-07-30 01:58	Chris Graham	Note Added: 0006058
2019-07-30 17:22	Chris Graham	Tag Detached: Roadmap: v11
2019-07-30 17:22	Chris Graham	Note Added: 0006059
2019-07-30 17:40	Chris Graham	Relationship added	related to 3540
2019-07-30 17:41	Chris Graham	Relationship added	related to 264