sub babelfish {
return '' if $no_babel;
my ($from, $to, $phrase) = @_;
- #&main::DEBUG("babelfish($from, $to, $phrase)");
+ &main::DEBUG("babelfish($from, $to, $phrase)");
$from = $lang_code{$from};
$to = $lang_code{$to};
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
+ $ua->agent("Mozilla/4.5 " . $ua->agent); # Let's pretend
$ua->timeout(5);
my $req =
- HTTP::Request->new('POST', 'http://babelfish.altavista.com/raging/translate.dyn');
+ #HTTP::Request->new('POST', 'http://babelfish.altavista.com/raging/translate.dyn');
+ HTTP::Request->new('POST', 'http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr');
# babelfish ignored this, but it SHOULD work
# Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1
sub translate {
return '' if $no_babel;
my ($phrase, $languagepair, $req, $ua) = @_;
- #&main::DEBUG("translate($phrase, $languagepair, $req, $ua)");
+ &main::DEBUG("translate($phrase, $languagepair, $req, $ua)");
my $urltext = uri_escape($phrase);
$req->content("urltext=$urltext&lp=$languagepair");
- #&main::DEBUG("http://babelfish.altavista.com/raging/translate.dyn??urltext=$urltext&lp=$languagepair");
+ &main::DEBUG("http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr??urltext=$urltext&lp=$languagepair");
my $res = $ua->request($req);
my $translated;
my $html = $res->content;
# This method subject to change with the whims of Altavista's design
# staff.
- $html =~ s/\s+/ /sg;
- #&main::DEBUG("$html\n===============\n");
- # look for the first :< which should be the "To English:<", etc.
- # strip any trailing tags, grab text that follows up to the next tag.
- #my ($translated) = ($html =~ m{:\s*(<[^>]*>\s*)+([^<]*)}sx);
($translated) = $html;
- #(undef, $translated) = ($html =~ m{(:\s+(<[^>]*>\s*)+)([^<\s]*)<}sx);
-
- # Tim@Rikers.org get's frustrated and splits this into steps:
- # 1) remove everything up to the first ':' in the text
- $translated =~ s/.*?:\s*</</s;
- # 2) remove any <attributes> till the first text
- $translated =~ s/(<[^>]*>\s*)*//s;
- # 3) remove the first trailing <attribute> and everything after it
- $translated =~ s/<.*//s;
-
- # look for contents of first textarea - not anymore cause > 40 char does not get one.
- #my ($translated) = ($html =~ m{<textarea[^>]*>+([^<]*)}sx);
- #&main::DEBUG("\"$translated\"\n===============\n");
-# ($html =~ m{<textarea[^>]*>
-# \s*
-# ([^<]*)
-# }sx);
-# ($html =~ m{<br>
-# \s+
-# <font\ face="arial,\ helvetica">
-# \s*
-# (?:\*\*\s+time\ out\s+\*\*)?
-# \s*
-# ([^<]*)
-# }sx);
+
+ $translated =~ s/<[^>]*>//sg;
+ $translated =~ s/ / /sg;
+ $translated =~ s/\s+/ /sg;
+ #&main::DEBUG("$translated\n===remove <attributes>\n");
+
+ $translated =~ s/\s*Translate again.*//i;
+ &main::DEBUG("$translated\n===remove after 'Translate again'\n");
+
+ $translated =~ s/[^:]*?:\s*(Help\s*)?//s;
+ &main::DEBUG("$translated\n===remove to first ':', optional Help\n");
+
$translated =~ s/\n/ /g;
- $translated =~ s/\s*$//;
- # need a way to do unicode->iso
+ # FIXME should we do unicode->iso
} else {
$translated = ":("; # failure
}