# matheuss/google-translate-api

A free and unlimited API for Google Translate :dollar::no_entry_sign:

Repository: https://github.com/matheuss/google-translate-api
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/google-translate-api
Homepage: https://npmjs.com/package/google-translate-api
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: google, translate, api, free, javascript
Last push: 2024-07-22T05:57:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3766, "days_push": 772, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3135, forks 647 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:45.599760+00:00)

## What it is
A free and unlimited Node.js library that provides an unofficial API for Google Translate, using the same servers as translate.google.com. It supports automatic language detection, spelling correction, and language correction.

## Use cases
- translate text between languages in a node.js app
- detect the language of a string
- auto-correct typos before translating
- get free machine translation without an API key
- translate user-generated content in a chatbot
- batch translate strings for localization

## When to choose
- you need free translation without paying for the official Google Cloud Translation API
- you want automatic language detection and spelling correction
- you're building a small Node.js script or app that needs quick translations

## When to avoid
- you need a guaranteed SLA or production-grade reliability, since this scrapes an unofficial endpoint and can break or get rate-limited
- you need to translate large volumes of text at scale
- your project is not in the Node.js/JavaScript ecosystem

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: http-client, nlp, internationalization
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: google-translate, translation, unofficial-api, language-detection, spelling-correction, natural-language-processing, localization, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- matheuss/google-translate-api (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:45.599760+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 2026-08-30T07:26:06.244159+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/matheuss/google-translate-api (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:45.599760+00:00, sha b9303a34a7ef)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/google-translate-api (fetched 2026-08-29T09:41:07.451927+00:00, sha 1d1cb47c81d2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.