microsoft-translate.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Translate text_to_translate using microsoft translator service."""
import json
import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree
try:
    from urllib import urlencode
    from urllib2 import urlopen, Request
except ImportError: # Python 3
    from urllib.parse import urlencode
    from urllib.request import urlopen, Request

text_to_translate = 'hello world'

# provide credentials
# http://blogs.msdn.com/b/translation/p/gettingstarted1.aspx
# http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh454950.aspx
client_id, client_secret = open('credentials').read().split()

# get access token
data = urlencode(dict(
    grant_type='client_credentials',
    client_id=client_id,
    client_secret=client_secret,
    scope='http://api.microsofttranslator.com')).encode('ascii')
r = urlopen("https://datamarket.accesscontrol.windows.net/v2/OAuth2-13", data)
token = json.loads(r.read().decode('utf-8'))

# translate
req = Request("https://api.microsofttranslator.com/v2/Http.svc/Translate?" +
              urlencode({'text': text_to_translate, 'from': 'en', 'to': 'ko'}),
              headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + token['access_token']})
response = urlopen(req)
print(etree.parse(response).getroot().text)