Running Watson Machine Translation service from curl

demo-machine-translation.sh

# Get these from Bluemix and set as environment variables
#    $BLUEMIX_WATSON_MACHTRANS_USER
#    $BLUEMIX_WATSON_MACHTRANS_PASS
#    $BLUEMIX_WATSON_MACHTRANS_URL

export FORMAT="rt=text"  # or json or xml

export LANG_FROM="enus"
export LANG_TO="frfr"

export LANGUAGE="mt-$LANG_FROM-$LANG_TO"

export TEXT_TO_TRANSLATE="Hello. My name is Dale. I want to translate this into French. "

curl -X POST \
     --user $BLUEMIX_WATSON_MACHTRANS_USER:$BLUEMIX_WATSON_MACHTRANS_PASS \
     --data "$FORMAT&sid=$LANGUAGE&txt=$TEXT_TO_TRANSLATE" \
     $BLUEMIX_WATSON_MACHTRANS_URL

echo ''