This is an exploratory self project, written in go, exploring the v2 (simple) and v3 (advanced) versions of the Google Translate API

To run this project, you need to have docker installed, as well as having an API key and service account created for using V2 and V3 of the translate APIs. Place the values in the .env file.

To start running the local server at port 8080, simply run:

docker-compose up

The V3 of the Translate API works without an API key, as long as a service account with the right permissions is assigned. It works because of Application Default Credentials

To build this project and testing in Cloud Run for V3 of the translate API (without using API Key), follow the following steps:

(make sure you replace the %GCP-PROJECT-ID% value to your project id)

1. Build docker image

docker build -t gcr.io/%GCP-PROJECT-ID%/google-translate-api:0.0.1 --platform linux/amd64 -f tools/Dockerfile.cloudrun .

2. Push the image to your image registry in your project

docker push gcr.io/%GCP-PROJECT-ID%/google-translate-api:0.0.2

3. Visit Cloud Run, and create a new service using your new image and service account (which has the translate permissions assigned)

Viola! You're done!