# How to use google translator from Julia level?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** nlp\
**Created:** [January 27, 2020, 11:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-use-google-translator-from-julia-level/33837 "2020-01-27T11:16:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 12:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-use-google-translator-from-julia-level/33837/4 "2020-01-27T12:51:19Z")

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You left out `HTTP.escapeuri(...)`. That said, it doesn’t seem to work for longer texts, as the returned string is split up. You can just `join` them, though:

```julia
function gtranslate(text, targetlang, sourcelang = "auto")
    url = "https://translate.googleapis.com/translate_a/single?client=gtx&sl=" * sourcelang * "&tl=" * targetlang * "&dt=t&q=" * HTTP.escapeuri(text)
    result = JSON.parse(String(HTTP.request("GET", url).body))
    join([s[1] for s in result[1]], "")
end

```

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