I was trying googletrans and it was working quite well. Since this morning I started getting below error. I went through multiple posts from stackoverflow and other sites and found probably my ip is banned to use the service for sometime. I tried using multiple service provider internet that has different ip and stil facing the same issue ? I also tried to use googletrans on different laptops , still same issue ..Is googletrans package broken or something google did at their end ?
>>> from googletrans import Translator
>>> translator = Translator()
>>> translator.translate('안녕하세요.')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module>
translator.translate('안녕하세요.')
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/googletrans/client.py", line 172, in translate
data = self._translate(text, dest, src)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/googletrans/client.py", line 75, in _translate
token = self.token_acquirer.do(text)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/googletrans/gtoken.py", line 180, in do
self._update()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/googletrans/gtoken.py", line 59, in _update
code = unicode(self.RE_TKK.search(r.text).group(1)).replace('var ', '')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'
Update 01/12/2020: This issue re-emerged lately, (apparently) caused once again by some changes on the Google translation API.
A solution is being discussed (again) in this Github issue. Although there is not a definitive solution yet a Pull Request seem to be solving the problem: https://github.com/ssut/py-googletrans/pull/237.
While we wait for it to be approved it can be installed like this:
$ pip uninstall googletrans
$ git clone https://github.com/alainrouillon/py-googletrans.git
$ cd ./py-googletrans
$ git checkout origin/feature/enhance-use-of-direct-api
$ python setup.py install
Original Answer:
Apparently it's a recent and widespread problem on Google's side. Quoting various Github discussions, it happens when Google sends you directly the raw token.
It's being discussed right now and there is already a pull request to fix it, so it should be resolved in the next few days.
For reference, see:
https://github.com/ssut/py-googletrans/issues/48 <-- exact same problem reported on the Github repo https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS/issues/60 <-- seemingly same problem on a text-to-speech library https://github.com/ssut/py-googletrans/pull/78 <-- pull request to fix the issue
To apply this patch (without waiting for the pull request to be accepted) simply install the library from the forked repo https://github.com/BoseCorp/py-googletrans.git (uninstall the official library first):
$ pip uninstall googletrans
$ git clone https://github.com/BoseCorp/py-googletrans.git
$ cd ./py-googletrans
$ python setup.py install
You can clone it anywhere on your system and install it globally or while inside a virtualenv.
Install the alpha version like this:
pip install googletrans==3.1.0a0
Translation example:
translator = Translator()
translation = translator.translate("Der Himmel ist blau und ich mag Bananen", dest='en')
print(translation.text)
#output: 'The sky is blue and I like bananas'
In case it does not work, try to specify the service url like this:
from googletrans import Translator
translator = Translator(service_urls=['translate.googleapis.com'])
translator.translate("Der Himmel ist blau und ich mag Bananen", dest='en')
See the discussion here for details and updates: https://github.com/ssut/py-googletrans/pull/237
If the above doesn't work for you, google_trans_new seems to be a good alternative that works for some people. It's unclear why the fix above works for some and doesn't for others. See details on installation and usage here: https://github.com/lushan88a/google_trans_new
#pip install google_trans_new
from google_trans_new import google_translator
translator = google_translator()
translate_text = translator.translate('?????????',lang_tgt='en')
print(translate_text)
#output: Hello china
Try google_trans_new. It solved the problem for me https://github.com/lushan88a/google_trans_new
pip install google_trans_new
from google_trans_new import google_translator
translator = google_translator()
translate_text = translator.translate('Hola mundo!',lang_src='es,'lang_tgt='en')
print(translate_text)
-> Hello world!
Here is an unofficial fix to this problem as Darkblader24 stated in: https://github.com/ssut/py-googletrans/pull/78
Update gtoken.py like this:
RE_TKK = re.compile(r'TKK=eval\(\'\(\(function\(\)\{(.+?)\}\)\(\)\)\'\);',
re.DOTALL)
RE_RAWTKK = re.compile(r'TKK=\'([^\']*)\';',re.DOTALL)
def __init__(self, tkk='0', session=None, host='translate.google.com'):
self.session = session or requests.Session()
self.tkk = tkk
self.host = host if 'http' in host else 'https://' + host
def _update(self):
"""update tkk
"""
# we don't need to update the base TKK value when it is still valid
now = math.floor(int(time.time() * 1000) / 3600000.0)
if self.tkk and int(self.tkk.split('.')[0]) == now:
return
r = self.session.get(self.host)
rawtkk = self.RE_RAWTKK.search(r.text)
if rawtkk:
self.tkk = rawtkk.group(1)
return
pip uninstall googletrans googletrans-temp
pip install googletrans-temp
Worked for me in Win10 and Ubuntu 16 (Python 3.6) as of 2019.2.24 -- Refer to one of the replies in https://github.com/ssut/py-googletrans/issues/94. The old fix pip install git+https://github.com/BoseCorp/py-googletrans.git --upgrade does not work any more over here.
Fixed is here https://pypi.org/project/py-translator/
$ pip3 install py_translator==1.8.9
from py_translator import Translator
s = Translator().translate(text='Hello my friend', dest='es').text
print(s)
out:Hola mi amigo
This worked for me:
pip install googletrans==4.0.0-rc1
Original answer can be found here: https://github.com/ssut/py-googletrans/issues/234#issuecomment-742460612
Update 10.12.20: New Alpha Version Release (Stable Release Candidate) is released: 4.0.0-rc1
It can be installed as follows:
pip install googletrans==4.0.0-rc1
Usage:
translation = translator.translate('? ??? ??? ??????.', dest='en')
print(translation.text)
>>This sentence is written in Korean.
detected_lang = translator.detect('mein english me hindi likh raha hoon')
print(detected_lang)
>>Detected(lang=hi, confidence=None)
detected_lang = translator.detect('? ??? ??? ??????.')
print(detected_lang)
>>Detected(lang=ko, confidence=None)
Making the following change to gtoken made it work for me:
RE_TKK = re.compile(r'tkk:\'(.+?)\'')
def __init__(self, tkk='0', session=None, host='translate.google.com'):
self.session = session or requests.Session()
self.tkk = tkk
self.host = host if 'http' in host else 'https://' + host
def _update(self):
"""update tkk
"""
# we don't need to update the base TKK value when it is still valid
r = self.session.get(self.host)
self.tkk = self.RE_TKK.findall(r.text)[0]
now = math.floor(int(time.time() * 1000) / 3600000.0)
if self.tkk and int(self.tkk.split('.')[0]) == now:
return
# this will be the same as python code after stripping out a reserved word 'var'
code = unicode(self.RE_TKK.search(r.text).group(1)).replace('var ', '')
# unescape special ascii characters such like a \x3d(=)
I obtained this snippet from the ticket here.
Note that this is slightly different from other change suggested earlier by Kerem.
For other uninitiated folks like me, gtoken.py can be found within AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\site-packages\googletrans on a Windows machine using Anaconda. To find AppData, go into the address bar in file explorer, type '%AppData%', and hit Enter.
It turns out putting the call whithin a try/except block solved the problem for me
try:
langs = translator.detect(update.message.text)
if langs.lang == 'en':
foo(translator.translate(update.message.text,dest='zh-cn').text)
else:
bar(translator.translate(update.message.text,dest='en').text)
except Exception as e:
print(e)