DeepL.com is a great translation service. It still provides better translations experience than the other popular translation providers. This workflow integrates the octfx/DeepLy PHP package into Alfred.
IMPORTANT: This workflow requires a (free) Api Key from DeepL to work!
Simply install the DeepL workflow by double-clicking the workflow file. You can add the workflow to a category, then click "Import" to finish importing. You'll now see the workflow listed in the left sidebar of your Workflows preferences pane.
Once imported, open the workflow settings (the x in the upper right corner), add your Deepl Api Key and set your default translation targets. The trick is to add your usual source language to the target languages as well, this enables you to easily translate back and forth.
To activate this workflow use the default keyword "dl", enter the passage you wanna get translated. Source language will be inferred automatically, the preferred destination language can be set in the workflow. You can also enforce the target language by using the > symbol – for example dl today will be nice weather > fr or for more than one target language dl will it rain today? > fr nl.
Source and destination language codes available
de, en, fr, es, it, ja, nl, pl, pt, ru, zhTip: Use ⏎ to copy translated text to your clipboard. Use ⌘ + ⏎ to show long sentences as screen overlay and ⎋ to go back. Send any system wide text selection via the hotkey combo ^⌥⌘D to DeeplTranslate.
This library requires PHP 7.2 or higher, the mbstring and the Json extension installed as your default php environment /usr/bin/php. Future versions of >= macOS Monterey 12.0.0 won't have PHP preinstalled you might need to install PHP yourself. Also check this github issue here.
This workflow requires that you have an DeepL Api Key. If you do not have one, now is the time ... vist DeepL-com to request an API key.
DeepL is a product from DeepL GmbH. More info: deepl.com/publisher.html
This package has been heavily inspired by Chris Konnertz DeepLy PHP package and uses a fork of a fork to interface with DeepL via PHP.
The source code for the workflow is available in the src folder and will require PHP 7.2 or higher with the mbstring and json extensions.
Install all dependencies through Composer:
cd src;
composer install;