gtranslate_selenium.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
    We do not recommend using this script for any purposes other than learning to use Selenium;
    for batched machine translation via Google Translate using 'document' translation feature 
    is arguably the most suitable. For regular translations one should use the Cloud API.
"""

import time

from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver import Firefox
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait

opts = Options()
opts.headless = True

driver = Firefox(options=opts, executable_path="geckodriver.exe")

try:
    driver.get("https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=ru")
    textarea = driver.find_element_by_id("source")
    textarea.send_keys("Humpy-Dumpty sat on the wall")
    
    try:
        WebDriverWait(driver, 1)
        result = driver.find_element_by_class_name("result")
        print(result.text)
    except TimeoutException:
        print("Fail!")

    time.sleep(5)
except Exception as e:
    print(e)
finally:
    driver.quit()