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I am kohai. I am a pluggable irc bot for managing real-time data events.
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Create API option for twitter "plugin" that allows for auto-translation #5

Closed Marak closed 12 years ago

Marak commented 13 years ago

We should expose an option for the twitter plugin that will enable the bot to attempt a auto-translation to english.

Based on the data we receive from twitter, we might be able to determine language, but most likely we will need to use translate.js auto-translate feature. I think translate.js supports this, but it might require a patch. Related issue: https://github.com/Marak/translate.js/issues/11

It would also be great to store the language detected per @username, so if we !tweet @username back at some point, it will auto-translate to @usernames original language. <=== Twitter BabelFish

AvianFlu commented 13 years ago

At least partially addressed by #35

AvianFlu commented 13 years ago

"Important: The Google Translate API has been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011. Due to the substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse, the number of requests you may make per day will be limited and the API will be shut off completely on December 1, 2011. For website translations, we encourage you to use the Google Translate Element."

Seemed relevant.

AvianFlu commented 13 years ago

Until translation is implemented, kohai is going to drop all non-english tweets.

https://github.com/nodejitsu/kohai/commit/a1c06aa25f8d33b541de95f06a29e5b7e0afc84a

AvianFlu commented 12 years ago

This is more of a hook.io-twitter issue, and no immediate solution has presented itself. Closing issue.