Lingva-scraper NPM

Installation

Just install the package using NPM

npm i --save lingva-scraper

Or using Yarn

yarn add lingva-scraper

And import it directly using CommonJS

const { getTranslationInfo } = require("lingva-scraper");

Or with the ES6 syntax

import { getTranslationInfo } from "lingva-scraper";

The package doesn't provide a default export, but you can alternatively use the wildcard import syntax

import * as LingvaScraper from "lingva-scraper";

Usage

Main API

Translation text

getTranslationText(source: LangCode<"source">, target: LangCode<"target">, query: string): Promise<string | null>

Retrieves the translated text given a pair of languages and a query text.

import { getTranslationText } from "lingva-scraper";

const translation = await getTranslationText("auto", "es", "win");

Translation information

getTranslationInfo(source: LangCode<"source">, target: LangCode<"target">, query: string): Promise<TranslationInfo | null>

Retrieves the full translation information, optionally including the detected source, typos, pronunciation representations, definitions, examples, similar words or extra translations.

import { getTranslationInfo } from "lingva-scraper";

const info = await getTranslationInfo("zh", "en", "早安");

Text to speech

getAudio(lang: LangCode<"target">, text: string, isSlow?: boolean): Promise<number[] | null>

Retrieves an audio buffer in the form of a Uint8Array, and represented as a number[] in order to be serializable.

import { getAudio } from "lingva-scraper";

const audio = await getAudio("ca", "gerd");

Utilities

There are also some utility constants and functions exported in order to ease the use of the package.

LanguageType

An enumeration representing the two language types (source and target) and very used among the rest of utilities.

import { LanguageType } from "lingva-scraper";

LanguageType.SOURCE // "source"
LanguageType.TARGET // "target"

languageList

An object that includes the whole list of languages used in this package, as well as two other properties with the language list filtered by type.

import { languageList } from "lingva-scraper";

languageList.all // whole list
languageList.source // i.e. languageList[LanguageType.SOURCE]
languageList.target // i.e. languageList[LanguageType.TARGET]

isValidCode()

A function that checks whether a string is a valid language code, optionally differentiating it based on a certain language type.

import { isValidCode } from "lingva-scraper";

const isValidLang = isValidCode(str);
const isValidSource = isValidCode(str, LanguageType.SOURCE);

replaceExceptedCode()

A function that checks whether a language code is valid regarding a language type, and changes it with a suitable replacement if not.

import { replaceExceptedCode } from "lingva-scraper";

const targetLang = replaceExceptedCode(LanguageType.TARGET, lang);

mapGoogleCode()

A function that maps the given Lingva language code with a valid Google one, in case they're different.

import { mapGoogleCode } from "lingva-scraper";

const googleLang = mapGoogleCode(lang);

mapLingvaCode()

A function that maps the given Google language code with a valid Lingva one, in case they're different.

import { mapLingvaCode } from "lingva-scraper";

const lang = mapLingvaCode(googleLang);

Related projects

Lingva Translate - The web application for which this package was built
SimplyTranslate-Engines - The backend for SimplyTranslate, which helped to discover some key endpoints
Kainet Scraper - A YouTube Music scraper built by the same author with a similar structure