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WebExtension Translator

This is a small application for generating translations from a messages.json file used by a WebExtension. It loads a messages.json file, gathers tranlatable strings from it, passes them to a LibreTranslate instance(my libretranslate instance within I2P), and uses it to generate a new messages.json file containing the translations.

It is designed to be run from the root of the WebExtension directory where the _locales/ directory is located.

Installation

Install it with:

go install github.com/eyedeekay/webext-translator@latest

then, to run it:

~/go/bin/webext-translator

Usage

It is possible to generate one translation at a time, or all translations at once.

Russian-to-French example:

webext-translator -base="_locales/ru/messages.json" -lang="fr"

Frensh-to-Arabic-Chinese-English-German-Italian-Japanese-Portuguese-Russian-Spanish example

webext-translator -base="_locales/fr/messages.json"

Because it needs a default, it will automatically look for an English translation in _locales/en/messages.json if no arguments are passed, and will generate translations for all supported languages.