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By Vaughan Chandler — Last update Mar 9, 2011 — Installed 14,797,258 times.

Facebook status translator

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Apr 16, 2009 5:15am Avindra V.G. Scriptwright	See: http://userscripts.org/topics/24838 Google has API's for translate as well-- (so you don't have to parse the actual page itself). For example: Hola, Mundo! A simple "GET" request does it. sl=auto // auto-recognize the language tl=en // language to convert to, you probably can easily add multi-support this way

Apr 16, 2009 8:02am Steve Rhodes User	I understand that basically translating a whole page of status requests individually could be hammering the Google translate API but to have the option with a button next to each status would be more reasonable I think.

Apr 17, 2009 3:25am Vaughan Chan... Script's Author	Nice idea, I'll try to implement it by adding a button/link after after the status.

Jun 14, 2009 5:00am Vaughan Chan... Script's Author	Well it took a while, but Facebook Fixer now has translation feature. I didn't implement it as a button though. Just select the text you want translated and press T (shift + t). A new tab/window will open with the translated text courtesy of Google Translate. I will probably change it so its not a new tab, but for now that was the fastest way to go. You can change the translation language in the config screen (instructions on how to get there are on the script's home page).

Jul 1, 2009 1:18am Vaughan Chan... Script's Author	I have modified the Translator so the text appears in the same window and no longer in a new, popup window, if you are using Greasemonkey/Firefox.

Nov 28, 2009 3:51pm Steve Rhodes User	Hi Vaughan, for weeks now i've not been able to translate using FB fixer. I just get undefined. A quick look in the fb fixer settings and I only see English / Spanish / French / German / Italian / Bulgarian / Slovak and Dutch in the list box for the source language. It used to work, translating anything Google could handle. The destination language has the full selection. Has anything changed?

Nov 29, 2009 2:33am Vaughan Chan... Script's Author	Hi Steve, that was affecting me too. Its as a result of a change made by Google to their translation API (as if Facebook's changes weren't giving me enough work). I've updated my code, so this feature will be working again in the next release.

Dec 7, 2009 4:16am Vaughan Chan... Script's Author	I have released a test version which has the fix in it.

Dec 19, 2009 12:08am Steve Rhodes User	Thanks! it works just like before. many thanks! thanks for fixing this. its a real time saver.

Jun 29, 2010 1:56pm Steve Rhodes User	Vaughan, I think the API must have changed again because the translate again isnt working. It just says "Translating...". I have uninstalled/reinstalled and removed all other scripts to no avail.

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