Topic on Talk:Content translation

DeepL (www.deepl.com) offers better translations that Google translate,

can be the possible to integrate their translations on this service?

Regards

nobody offers a browser-side javascript api interface yet (although there is a server side javascript interface), so I cannot incorporate DEEPL into the GoogleTrans gadget. If there were such an api I certainly would. Please let me know when there is one available

@Endo999: If developers want to use another translator service such as DeepL, we are talking about thousands of requests from Content Translation users. So it is obligatory to ask a partnership between the Wikimedia Foundation and the translator engine. Of course This kind of request takes a long time.

there is an official API now, but is only available via "pro" version, https://www.deepl.com/api.html

I"ve looked at the api that deepl provides. It supports server scripts but not browser javascript calls, like Google translation does. Basically, in order to integrate DEEPL into the GoogleTrans wikipedia gadget, which I maintain, DEEPL would need to receive a dynamic request for a script file (like Google translate). And then to return the JSON interface as a javascript file, like Google translate does. Until this happens it is necessary to have a Perl script on a webserver interface with DEEPL, something that Wikipedia does not support.

Endo999 thanks for the update. Actually all calls to yandex and consorts made by content translation users come from a WM proxy as part of CX software (so translators' ips are not sent to distant translate service). So call another api endpoint should not be a technical problem, but rather a commercial one.

I would like having an update on it from CX devs :)