xlifftranslate

Translate xliff files using the Google Cloud Translation API

How to use it

1. Install globally with npm install -g xlifftranslate.
2. Follow the instructions at https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/application-default-credentials to setup your google application credentials.
3. Run xlifftranslate in your project directory.

Options

• --i18nPath specify the directory where the xliff files are found
• --verbose "true" adds verbose output with translations.
• --ignoreText "ignoreme ignoremetoo" ignores the specified strings with default delimiter " ".
• --ignoreDelimiter " " Specify the delimiter for the --ignoreText option
• --skipDifferent "true" Skip translations of strings where source and target don't match.
• --reTranslateExisting "true" Re-translate everything, even if it has a non-blank value.

Examples

To run, make sure your Google Translate API Credendials are in your environment:

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=service_account.json

Example run command

xlifftranslate --i18nPath src/i18n