I realise that there are several language translation related questions on SO, but as far as I could tell my question hasn't been asked before.
Background I have a project where I need to translate some snippets written in Russian to English. So far, I have used the googletrans Python library to accomplish this. Since November googletrans has had some issues, and I am looking into alternatives.
As far as I can tell, Google has worked to block googletrans to convert users to its paid google cloud translation API.
So my question is... What are the best alternatives to googletrans? I would prefer one that
- works reliably,
- is free,
- does not rely on Google Translate Ajax API (as this option does not seem to be reliable), and
- works in Python2.7.
1)--4) are all nice to have rather than mandatory.
So far, I have been testing the Google Cloud Translation API, but it might be prohibitively expensive. Other libraries use other translation services, but there are literally dozens of them so I would love to hear your recommendations.
I really appreciate any help you can provide.
