DeepL Translate

An unofficial python package to translate text using DeepL.

Installation

pip install git+https://github.com/ptrstn/deepl-translate

Usage

Supported languages

Currently the following languages are supported:

Abbreviation	Language	Writing in own language
BG	Bulgarian	Български
ZH	Chinese	中文
CS	Czech	Česky
DA	Danish	Dansk
NL	Dutch	Nederlands
EN	English	English
ET	Estonian	Eesti
FI	Finnish	Suomi
FR	French	Français
DE	German	Deutsch
EL	Greek	Ελληνικά
HU	Hungarian	Magyar
IT	Italian	Italiano
JA	Japanese	日本語
LV	Latvian	Latviešu
LT	Lithuanian	Lietuvių
PL	Polish	Polski
PT	Portuguese	Português
RO	Romanian	Română
RU	Russian	Русский
SK	Slovak	Slovenčina
SL	Slovenian	Slovenščina
ES	Spanish	Español
SV	Swedish	Svenska

You can either input the abbreviation or the language written in english.

Command line tool

Help

deepl --help

usage: deepl [-h] [--version] [--formal | --informal] [-t TEXT | -f FILE] source_language target_language

Python client to translate texts using deepl.com

positional arguments:
  source_language       Source language of your text
  target_language       Target language of your desired text

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  --formal              Use formal tone in translation
  --informal            Use informal tone in translation
  -t TEXT, --text TEXT  Text to be translated
  -f FILE, --file FILE  File to be translated

Example 1

This will translate a Spanish (ES) text into Russian (RU):

deepl spanish russian -t "¡Buenos días!"

Доброе утро!

Example 2

This will translate the file (test.txt) text from Italian (IT) into Portuguese (PT):

deepl IT PT --file test.txt

Example 3

This will translate a Spanish (ES) text into Russian (RU) in formal tone:

deepl ES RU --text "¿Cómo te llamas?" --formal

Как Вас зовут?

Note: informal would be "Как тебя зовут?"

Example 4

This will translate a Japanese (JP) text into German (DE) in informal tone:

deepl JP DE --text "お元気ですか？" --informal

Wie geht es dir?

Note: formal would be "Wie geht es Ihnen?"

Python library

Example 1

This will translate a Chinese (ZH) text into Dutch (NL):

import deepl
deepl.translate(source_language="ZH", target_language="NL", text="你好")

'Hallo'

Example 2

This will translate a danish text into german in informal tone:

import deepl
deepl.translate(source_language="danish", target_language="german", text="Ring til mig!", formality_tone="informal")

'Ruf mich an!'