# soimort/translate-shell

:speech_balloon: Command-line translator using Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc.

Repository: https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/translate-shell
Homepage: https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell
Language: Awk
License: Unlicense
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-12-10T23:49:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4959, "days_push": 631, "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 7506, forks 393 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:00.402924+00:00)

## What it is
Translate Shell is a command-line translator that provides access to Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, and Apertium from the terminal. Written in GNU Awk, it supports brief and detailed translations, interactive shell mode, and runs on POSIX-compliant systems.

## Use cases
- translate text from the command line
- quickly translate a phrase in my terminal
- interactive translation shell for translating lines of text
- translate files or clipboard content via CLI
- use Google Translate without opening a browser
- script automated translations in bash

## When to choose
- you need fast terminal-based translations on Linux, macOS, or BSD
- you want to script translations in shell pipelines
- you prefer lightweight tools with minimal dependencies (just gawk)
- you want multiple translation engines from one tool

## When to avoid
- you need a GUI translation app
- you require guaranteed API reliability, since it scrapes web translation services that may change or rate-limit
- you need offline translation
- you are on a system without GNU Awk 4.0+

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: nlp, cli
- domain: -
- platform: windows, bsd, cli
- tags: translation, google-translate, awk, terminal, language, natural-language-processing, command-line, localization, linux, macos, android

## Member repositories
- soimort/translate-shell (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:00.402924+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 2026-08-29T17:37:30.962986+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:00.402924+00:00, sha a768e292444f)
  - homepage: https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell (fetched 2026-08-29T08:32:40.265478+00:00, sha b471f39a19b6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.