An example script to run Copius transliterator with Python

run_copius_transliterator.py

# This is an example from Niko Partanen how to use Copius transliterator from Python.
# The idea is to replicate the form that the website uses, and send that information
# there directly. For the website it essentially looks like someone would be just using
# it normally. 

import requests
from lxml import html

def run_copius_transliterator(language, text, direction):
    
    files = {
        'inField': (None, text),
        'dir': (None, direction),
    }

    r = requests.post(f'https://www.copius.eu/trtr.php?lang={language}', files = files)

    tree = html.fromstring(r.content)

    text = tree.xpath('//div[@class="trans"]/text()')

    return(''.join(text))

sentence = 'Пусьылі, пусьылі тшаксӧ, а из понды пусьыны.'

print(run_copius_transliterator(language = 'kom', text = sentence, direction = 'cl'))
print(run_copius_transliterator(language = 'kom', text = sentence, direction = 'ci'))