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README.md

gtranslate

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

Installation

git clone https://git.sr.ht/~yerinalexey/gtranslate
cd gtranslate

go build

Then run the server with

./gtranslate

If you want to use a different port:

./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:

./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

Using Tor

Routing requests through Tor has its benefits:

  • Google will have a hard time tracking gtranslate servers as they act like normal Tor users
  • You probably won't get banned as requests are made from different IPs

Despite that, it has some drawbacks:

  • Much slower response time
  • Might get capcha or some other junk that will block requests
  • If doing the wrong thing, you might get your server compromised (in terms of anonymity)
  • This feature is not tested in development

First of, you need to set up Tor daemon on the server. Here's a guide on ArchWiki: Tor.

With default settings, it should start a SOCKS5 proxy on localhost, port 9050.

Also, to minimize fingerprint, you need to use a very common user agent on Tor network. And, you guessed it, get it straight from Tor Browser. If you have one, you can just open https://httpbin.org/headers and copy it from there. If not, the latest available is provided here: Tor Browser's User-Agent

Full setup:

./gtranslate \
  --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0" \
  --proxy "socks5://localhost:9050" \
  ...

If you have managed to set it up or experienced issues with this guide, feel free to shoot an email to my public inbox or tag @yerinalexey@mastodon.online on Fediverse.

TODO

  • Proper language selector
  • Dark theme