Google Translate Integration with SmythOS
Need to make your agents multilingual? Connect Google Translate to SmythOS and empower them to detect, translate, and process text in hundreds of languages automatically.
List of Google Translate Components
Quickly compare Google Translate components by what they do and their key I/O. Click any component name to jump directly to its detailed guide.
Component | Action | What it Does | Inputs | Key Outputs | Use Case |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Translate Text | Translate | Translates one or more strings of text into a target language. | required project_id , text , targetLanguageCode | translations | Translating customer support tickets. |
Detect Language | Detect | Identifies the language of a given string of text. | required project_id , content | languageCode | Routing incoming emails based on language. |
Prerequisites
Before you begin, please ensure you have the following:
- An active SmythOS account. (Sign up here).
- A Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Project.
- The Cloud Translation API enabled in your GCP project.
- OAuth 2.0 credentials (
Client ID
andClient Secret
) from the Google Cloud Console.
Getting Started With Google Translate
The connection between SmythOS and Google Translate is handled via OAuth 2.0. This requires a one-time setup in the Google Cloud Console to get your credentials.
Step 1: Get Your OAuth 2.0 Credentials from Google
-
Go to Google Cloud Console:
- Navigate to
https://console.cloud.google.com/
and select or create a project.
- Navigate to
-
Enable the Cloud Translation API:
- In the search bar, find "Cloud Translation API" and Enable it for your project.
-
Configure OAuth Consent Screen:
- Go to APIs & Services > OAuth consent screen.
- Choose External for User Type and click
Create
. - Fill in the required app information (App name, User support email, Developer contact).
- Scopes: Click
Add or Remove Scopes
, search for "cloud-translation", and addhttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-translation
. ClickUpdate
. - Test Users: Add the email addresses of the Google accounts that will authenticate (including your own).
-
Create OAuth Client ID:
- Go to APIs & Services > Credentials.
- Click
+ Create Credentials
and selectOAuth client ID
. - For Application type, select
Web application
. - Under Authorized redirect URIs, click
+ Add URI
and enterhttps://app.smythos.com/oauth/google/callback
. - Click
Create
.
-
Copy Your Credentials:
- A dialog will appear with Your Client ID and Your Client Secret.
- Copy both values immediately.
Secure Your Credentials!
Step 2: Authenticate in SmythOS
- Add a Google Translate Component: Drag any Google Translate component onto your agent graph in SmythOS.
- Enter Credentials:
- Click the component to open its Settings.
- Input the
Client ID
andClient Secret
you just copied (or reference them from the Vault).
- Authorize the Connection:
- Click the
Authenticate
button. - You'll be redirected to a Google sign-in page. Log in and grant the requested permissions.
- You will be redirected back to SmythOS, and the integration will show as connected.
- Click the
Which Google Translate Component Should I Use?
If you need to… | Target | Use this Component | Why this one? |
---|---|---|---|
Convert text from one language to another | One or more strings of text | Translate Text | The core component for all translation tasks. |
Figure out what language a piece of text is written in | A single string of content | Detect Language | Essential for pre-processing text before deciding how to handle it. |
Component Details
This section provides detailed information for each Google Translate component.
Translate Text
Translates one or more strings of text into a specified target language.
Inputs
Field | Type | Required | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
project_id | string | Yes | Your numeric Google Cloud Project ID. |
text | array | Yes | An array of text strings to be translated. |
targetLanguageCode | string | Yes | The ISO-639-1 code for the target language (e.g., es for Spanish, fr for French). |
Outputs
Field | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
translations | array | An array of objects, each containing a translatedText field. The order matches the input text array. |
Response | object | The full, raw JSON response from the Google Translate API. |
Headers | object | The HTTP headers from the API response. |
{
"component": "googleTranslate.translateText",
"project_id": "your-gcp-project-id",
"text": [
"Hello, world!",
"How are you?"
],
"targetLanguageCode": "de"
}
Detect Language
Analyzes a string of text and determines the language it is written in. (This component was formerly referred to as "Language Code Validator").
Inputs
Field | Type | Required | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
project_id | string | Yes | Your numeric Google Cloud Project ID. |
content | string | Yes | The text content whose language you want to detect. |
Outputs
Field | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
languageCode | string | The ISO-639-1 code of the most likely language detected. |
Response | object | The full API response, which includes a list of detected languages and their confidence scores. |
Headers | object | The HTTP headers from the API response. |
{
"component": "googleTranslate.detectLanguage",
"project_id": "your-gcp-project-id",
"content": "Bonjour, comment puis-je vous aider aujourd'hui?"
}
Best Practices & Advanced Tips
- Secure Your Credentials: Always use the SmythOS
Vault
to store yourClient ID
andClient Secret
. - Manage Costs: The Translation API is powerful but not free. Monitor your usage in the Google Cloud Console. For internal tasks, consider if you can pre-process or batch texts to reduce the number of calls.
- Use Correct Language Codes: All language codes should be in ISO-639-1 format (e.g.,
en
,es
,zh-CN
). An incorrect code will result in an error. - Error Handling: Build logic in your agent to handle cases where language detection is not confident or a translation fails. The raw
Response
object is key for debugging.
Troubleshooting Common Issues
-
Authentication Errors (
invalid_client
,redirect_uri_mismatch
):- Cause: Incorrect
Client ID
/Secret
or a misconfigured redirect URI. - Solution: Verify your credentials. Ensure the redirect URI in Google Cloud Console is exactly
https://app.smythos.com/oauth/google/callback
.
- Cause: Incorrect
-
Permission Denied (
403 Forbidden
):- Cause: The authenticated user does not have permission to use the Translation API on the specified
project_id
, or the Cloud Translation API is not enabled. - Solution: Ensure the API is enabled in your GCP project. Confirm the authenticating user has a role with permission to use the translation service, such as "Cloud Translation API User."
- Cause: The authenticated user does not have permission to use the Translation API on the specified
-
Invalid Argument (
400 Bad Request
):- Cause: An invalid language code was provided, or the
project_id
format is incorrect. - Solution: Check that all language codes are valid ISO-639-1 codes. Ensure your
project_id
is correct.
- Cause: An invalid language code was provided, or the
What's Next?
You are now ready to build globally-aware agents with the SmythOS Google Translate Integration!
Consider these ideas:
-
Build an Agent That...
- Monitors a Twitter stream for mentions of your brand in any language, translates them to English, and performs sentiment analysis.
- Takes an English-language product description and automatically translates it into five other languages, preparing it for an international e-commerce site.
- Powers a multilingual chatbot that first detects the user's language and then uses translation to communicate back and forth seamlessly.
-
Explore Other Integrations:
- Combine Google Translate with the ScrapingBee Integration to scrape foreign-language websites and translate their content for analysis.
- Feed translated text into AI components like Fal.ai to generate summaries or insights.
- Log translations and their source text in a Google Sheet to build a glossary or review translation quality.