ghetto python script to run translations of a single word through google

gistfile1.py

import sys
import urllib2

langs = {
    "en": "English",
    "la": "Latin",
    "af": "Afrikaans",
    "sq": "Albanian",
    "ar": "Arabic",
    "hy": "Armenian",
    "az": "Azerbaijani",
    "eu": "Basque",
    "be": "Belarusian",
    "bn": "Bengali",
    "bg": "Bulgarian",
    "ca": "Catalan",
    "zh-CN": "Chinese",
    "hr": "Croatian",
    "cs": "Czech",
    "da": "Danish",
    "nl": "Dutch",
    "en": "English",
    "eo": "Esperanto",
    "et": "Estonian",
    "tl": "Filipino",
    "fi": "Finnish",
    "fr": "French",
    "gl": "Galician",
    "ka": "Georgian",
    "de": "German",
    "el": "Greek",
    "gu": "Gujarati",
    "ht": "Haitian Creole",
    "iw": "Hebrew",
    "hi": "Hindi",
    "hu": "Hungarian",
    "is": "Icelandic",
    "id": "Indonesian",
    "ga": "Irish",
    "it": "Italian",
    "ja": "Japanese",
    "kn": "Kannada",
    "ko": "Korean",
    "la": "Latin",
    "lv": "Latvian",
    "lt": "Lithuanian",
    "mk": "Macedonian",
    "ms": "Malay",
    "mt": "Maltese",
    "no": "Norwegian",
    "fa": "Persian",
    "pl": "Polish",
    "pt": "Portuguese",
    "ro": "Romanian",
    "ru": "Russian",
    "sr": "Serbian",
    "sk": "Slovak",
    "sl": "Slovenian",
    "es": "Spanish",
    "sw": "Swahili",
    "sv": "Swedish",
    "ta": "Tamil",
    "te": "Telugu",
    "th": "Thai",
    "tr": "Turkish",
    "uk": "Ukrainian",
    "ur": "Urdu",
    "vi": "Vietnamese",
    "cy": "Welsh",
    "yi": "Yiddish",
    }

url = "http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=t&text=%s&hl=en&sl=en&tl=%s&multires=1&prev=btn&ssel=0&tsel=0&sc=1"
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)'}

for e, lang in langs.iteritems():
    u = url % (sys.argv[1], e)

    req = urllib2.Request(u, "", headers)
    response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
    json = response.read()

    parts = json.split(",")
    if parts:
        translated = parts[0].replace("\"", "").replace("[", "")
        print "%14s: %s" % (lang, translated)
    

usage: python this_script.py word_to_translate