# alibaba/kiwi

🐤 Kiwi-国际化翻译全流程解决方案

Repository: https://github.com/alibaba/kiwi
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/alibaba-kiwi
Language: TypeScript
License Family: other
Topics: i18n, g11n, translation, intl, typescript
Last push: 2026-06-17T12:51:00+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 72/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 88, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3293, "days_push": 77, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2622, forks 239 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:05.121483+00:00)

## What it is
Kiwi is an end-to-end internationalization (i18n) solution from Alibaba, comprising kiwi-intl (a framework-agnostic runtime library), kiwi-cli (extraction/import/export of translation strings), and kiwi-linter (a VS Code extension). It automates extracting Chinese text from code, syncing translations with translators via Excel, and flagging un-internationalized strings.

## Use cases
- extract hardcoded chinese strings from frontend code
- manage i18n translation workflow with translators
- lint code for un-internationalized text
- auto-translate missing locale strings with google translate
- search translations by original text in vscode
- import translated excel files back into the project

## When to choose
- building a Chinese-to-multilingual frontend app needing full i18n pipeline
- you want automated extraction, linting, and translator collaboration in one tool
- your team uses VS Code and TypeScript/JavaScript

## When to avoid
- you need i18n for a non-JavaScript stack
- you only need a lightweight runtime i18n library without tooling
- your project doesn't involve Chinese source text

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: internationalization, cli, linter
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: cli, editor-plugin, cross-platform
- tags: i18n, translation-workflow, vscode-extension, chinese-text-extraction, machine-translation, editor-plugin, localization, nodejs

## Member repositories
- alibaba/kiwi (main) score 72

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:05.121483+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:19:59.532199+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/alibaba/kiwi (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:05.121483+00:00, sha e92362a56199)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.