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This function sends a POST request to the WMCloud translation API with the specified parameters, parses the JSON response, and returns the translated content.

Usage

wmcloud_translate(
  content,
  target_language = "en",
  source_language = "en",
  format = "text",
  model = "nllb200-600M"
)

Arguments

content

The content to translate. Can be plain text, a URL (for a webpage), a JSON string, or a Markdown string.

target_language

The target language for the translation (default is "en").

source_language

The source language of the content (default is "en").

format

The format of the content ("json", "markdown", "text", "webpage").

model

The model to use for the translation (only "nllb200-600M" is currently known to work).

Value

The translated content.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Translate plain text
wmcloud_translate("rijst",
target_language = "es",
source_language = "nl", format = "text")

# Translate a webpage
wmcloud_translate("https://en.m.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Goes",
target_language = "es",
source_language = "en", format = "webpage")

# Translate JSON content
wmcloud_translate('{
    "id": 1,
    "title": "Chicken Biryani",
    "description": "Chicken Biryani is a savory chicken and rice dish",
    "ingredients": [ "Vegetable oil", "Garlic", "Ginger" ,"Rice"]
}
               ', target_language = "es", source_language = "en", format = "json")

# Translate Markdown content
wmcloud_translate('# Heading

This is a [link to Wikipedia](https://wikipedia.org)
                ', target_language = "es", source_language = "en", format = "markdown")
}