Translate-it README

A little extension for translating English text to any language that google translate supports (default to Finnish) in VSCode without having to open a browser, just for convenience.

Features

Translate selected text(s) into your selected target language ( default is Finnish)

Requirements

• Go to your Google Cloud Console, create a new project or use an existing project, enable Google Cloud Translate API
• Download google service account JSON file and store somewhere safe in your machine

Extension Settings

• In the Settings(UI), open Extensions/Translate It and paste in the absolute path of the account service JSON file that you've just downloaded.

• Or in the settings.json of vscode, paste the path in the setting:

"trans.googleCloudCredentialPath": "path/to/credential/file.json"

How to install

• This extension is now in Extension Market.
• To install, download translate-it-0.0.1.vsix file from this repo.
• Run code --install-extension translate-it-0.0.1.vsix

How to use

• Select/highlight the piece(s) of texts that you want to translate, then press Cmd + F1 on MacOs or Ctrl + F1 on Windows and Linux.
• You can also open the command palette and find command Finnish It!
• Translated texts will appear in a pop-up modal, you can copy and paste the translated text whereever you want it to be, or replace the original text with the translated one immediate.

Enjoy!