gtranslate/README.md

# gtranslate
Better front-end for Google Translate that doesn't track you and works
without JavaScript.

# Installation
```sh
git clone https://git.sr.ht/~yerinalexey/gtranslate
cd gtranslate

go build
```

Then run the server with

```sh
./gtranslate
```

If you want to use a different port:

```sh
./gtranslate -b :3000 # will run on port 3000
```

Note: if you're running it outside of development environment, you
should pass `--template-dir` and `--static-dir` arguments pointing to
templates and static directories:

```sh
./gtranslate \
  --template-dir /usr/share/webapps/gtranslate/templates \
  --static-dir   /usr/share/webapps/gtranslate/static
```

Other settings (available with `./gtranslate --help`):

```
Usage of ./gtranslate:
  -b, --bind string           Address to bind the server to, [addr]:port (default ":5000")
      --proxy string          Proxy URL, with no scheme http is assumed
      --static-dir string     Static files directory (default "./static")
      --template-dir string   Templates directory (default "./templates")
      --user-agent string     User-Agent header to use
```

If you want to proxy requests through Tor network, it's a good idea to
set User-Agent of Tor Browser so it will be harder to identify such
servers:

```sh
./gtranslate \
  --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0" \
  --proxy socks5://localhost:1080 \ # Set `Socks5Proxy localhost` in Tor config
  ...
```

[Source](https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/4890/tor-browser-user-agent-strings/21524#21524)

# TODO
- Proper language selector
- Dark theme