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by not_your_vase 363 days ago
The animation looks nice. I was curious how it uses Google translate, without any api keys and stuff, it's not unheard that google blocks unauthorized users... The title claims Google translate, but the code seems to call

  https://api.jigsawstack.com/v1/ai/translate
and it also seems to require a separate API key. Which is fine, but it's not google translate (though not saying that this is a bad thing... just a statement of fact)
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It doesn't, it's a google translate widget alternative which is Open Source. Google deprecated their translate widget hence you can't really use google translate for this use case. So it's an open source framework that uses another translation service that can support this widget on the front end with the right security controls to prevent spam, etc.

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