Very Simple Google Translate REST PHP-CLI client

googleTranslate.php

#!/usr/bin/php5
<?php
/* Very Simple Google Translate REST client
* Created on march 19th 2011 ronan.guilloux
* @author ronan.guilloux
* @license http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.txt GNU AFFERO GPL v3
* @version 1.0
*/

// API Key available here : https://code.google.com/apis/console/, for dev purpose only
// URL model : http://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=APIKEY&q=WORD&source=en&target=fr&callback=handleResponse
// You shoud add a shortcut in your ~/.bashrc : alias gtr='php ~/shell/googleTranslate.php' 
// usage  : gtr lazy
$key = 'MyAPIKey'; // see https://code.google.com/apis/console/
$word = trim($argv[1]);
$url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=%s&q=%s&source=en&target=fr&callback=handleResponse';
$url = sprintf($url, $key, $word);
//echo 'fetching ' . $url;
echo "\n" . file_get_contents($url) . "\n";

?>

Neat! I use a python script to do that: https://github.com/ornicar/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/translate