Google CGI API for Japanese Input sample script

googleime-cgi.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import urllib, urllib2
import json

class GoogleIMECGI(object):
    request_url = 'http://www.google.com/transliterate'
    langpair = ("ja-Hira", "ja")
    
    def __init__(self, lang_from = None, lang_to = None):
        if lang_from or lang_to:
            self.langpair = (lang_from, lang_to)
    
    def transliterate(self, text = None, text_tuple = None):
        if text_tuple != None:
            text = ",".join(text_tuple)
        
        if not text: return
        
        params = (("langpair", "|".join(self.langpair)),
                  ("text", text))
        
        url = "%s?%s" % (self.request_url, urllib.urlencode(params))
        
        r = urllib2.urlopen(url)
        response = r.read().replace("\n", "").replace(",]", "]")
        
        return json.loads(response)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    text = raw_input("Hiragana: ")
    for word in GoogleIMECGI().transliterate(text):
        print "%s:" % word[0]
        for w in word[1]:
            print "\t%s" % w

# $ python googleime-cgi.py
# Hiragana: ここではきものをぬぐ
# ここでは:
#	ここでは
#	ココでは
#	個々では
#	此処では
#	ここでは
# きものを:
#	着物を
#	きものを
#	キモノを
#	KIMONOを
#	kimonoを
# ぬぐ:
#	脱ぐ
#	ぬぐ
#	ぬぐ
#	ヌグ
#