Google Cloud Translate Pro

Translate text across 195 languages powered by Google Cloud Translation — the same engine behind Google Translate.

Quick Start

Get a free API key (500K credits, never expire):

curl -X POST https://api.socketsio.com/auth/signup \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"email":"you@example.com","password":"yourpassword"}'

Set your key:

export SOCKETSIO_API_KEY=tr-your-key-here

Capabilities

Translate

Translate text to any of 195 languages. Auto-detects source language.

curl -X POST https://api.socketsio.com/v1/translate \
  -H "X-API-Key: $SOCKETSIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q": "Hello, how are you?", "target": "zh"}'

Response:

{
  "data": {
    "translations": [{
      "translatedText": "你好，你好吗？",
      "detectedSourceLanguage": "en"
    }]
  }
}

Detect Language

Identify the language of any text with confidence score.

curl -X POST https://api.socketsio.com/v1/detect \
  -H "X-API-Key: $SOCKETSIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q": "Bonjour le monde"}'

Bulk Translate

Translate up to 128 texts in a single call.

curl -X POST https://api.socketsio.com/v1/translate \
  -H "X-API-Key: $SOCKETSIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q": ["Hello", "Goodbye", "Thank you"], "target": "es"}'

List Languages

Get all 195 supported languages with display names.

curl https://api.socketsio.com/v1/languages \
  -H "X-API-Key: $SOCKETSIO_API_KEY"

Agent Integration

For agent workflows, use the translate script directly:

python3 scripts/translate.py "Hello world" --target zh
python3 scripts/translate.py "Bonjour" --detect
python3 scripts/translate.py "Hello" "Goodbye" "Thanks" --target ja --bulk

The script reads SOCKETSIO_API_KEY from environment. See scripts/translate.py --help for all options.

Google Translate v2 Compatible

The API is a drop-in replacement for Google Cloud Translation v2. If you have existing code using Google Translate, change only the base URL:

# Before (Google, $20/M chars):
# url = "https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2"

# After (SocketsIO, $0.50/M chars):
url = "https://api.socketsio.com/v1/translate"

Same request format, same response format, 97% cheaper.

Supported Languages

195 languages including: Afrikaans, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, and 147 more.

Full list: run scripts/translate.py --languages or call the /v1/languages endpoint.

Pricing

For comparison: Google Translate API charges $20 per 1M characters. This skill uses the same Google engine at up to 97% less.

Links

• API Docs: https://socketsio.com/docs
• Dashboard: https://socketsio.com/dashboard
• Pricing: https://socketsio.com/pricing
• Support: support@socketsio.com