clip-translator

In the DeepL apps available for window and mac, you can easily translate with ctrl-c ctrl-c. I would like to get something similar on linux.

Install

Please check your google chrome version.

google-chrome --version
Google Chrome 81.0.4044.113

Install the closest version of chromedriver_binary.

pip install chromedriver_binary==81.0.4044.138.0

To check the available version

pip install chromedriver_binary==

Install this package

git clone https://github.com/kosuke55/clip-translator.git  
cd clip-translator  
pip install -e .  

Setting

Set keyboard shortcut by running script.

python set_keyboard_shortcut.py 'clip-translate' 'clip_translate_c' '<Primary><Alt>c'

(or manually...)
Search for "keyboard" and start it up, then select "shortcuts" and "custom shortcuts" field.

Press the + button to add a shortcut as shown in the following image.

If you want to use the server's desktop shortcut,

python create_desktop_shortcut.py

Run

click desktop shortcut and then the browser starts up.

or in the terminal

clip_translate_s

If you cannot launch with the shortcut, right-click the icon and select "Allow Launch".

After launching browser you can translate the text by pressing the shortcut key (ctrl-alt-c) after copying (ctrl-c).

Options

clip_translate_s -h
usage: clip_translate_s [-h] [--source SOURCE] [--target TARGET] [--mode MODE]
                        [--split SPLIT] [--remove-hyphen REMOVE_HYPHEN]
                        [--remove-newline REMOVE_NEWLINE]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --source SOURCE, -s SOURCE
                        source language (default: en)
  --target TARGET, -t TARGET
                        target language (default: ja)
  --mode MODE, -m MODE  Translation site (deepl or google) (default: deepl)
  --split SPLIT, -sp SPLIT
                        Use wordninja split (default: 0)
  --remove-hyphen REMOVE_HYPHEN, -rh REMOVE_HYPHEN
                        Remove hypen (default: 0)
  --remove-newline REMOVE_NEWLINE, -rn REMOVE_NEWLINE
                        Remove newline (default: 0)

To use google translate instead of deepl, run like

clip_translate_s -m google

Trouble Shooting

• Can't translate with the shortcut. If it was started with the command clip_translate_s, the following error is displayed.

socket.error: [Errno 98] Address already in use

This is not visible when launched from the desktop icon. You can kill the process on the port being used by running

kill_clip_trasnlate_s

• Can't launch an application from its icon. Launch from command line and check the error.

~
$ clip_translate_s
source: en
target: ja
mode: deepl
split: 0
remove_hyphen: 2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/kosuke55/.local/bin/clip_translate_s", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('clip-translator', 'console_scripts', 'clip_translate_s')())
  File "/home/kosuke55/clip-translator/clip_translator/translate.py", line 162, in run_server
    translator = Translator(args.source, args.target,
  File "/home/kosuke55/clip-translator/clip_translator/translate.py", line 48, in __init__
    self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 76, in __init__
    RemoteWebDriver.__init__(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 157, in __init__
    self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 92
Current browser version is 94.0.4606.71 with binary path /usr/bin/google-chrome

If the version of google chrome is not correct, install chromedriver_binaray again.

# check version list
$ pip install chromedriver_binary==
# Install the closest version of chromedriver_binary
$ pip install chromedriver_binary==94.0.4606.61.0