Cloud Translation Basic (v2) request with curl - Make a Translation API request

Make a Translation API Request using a REST method call to the v2 translate method.

Use curl to make a request to the https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2 endpoint.

The curl command includes JSON with the text to be translated (q), the language to translate from (source), and the language to translate to (target).

The source and target languages are identified using the ISO-639-1 codes. The source language is English (en) and the target language is Spanish (es). The format of the query is noted as "text" for plain text.

The sample curl command uses the gcloud auth application-default print-access-token command to get an authentication token.

curl -s -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer "$(gcloud auth application-default print-access-token) \
    --data "{
  'q': 'The Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the
        Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in
        the Giza pyramid complex.',
  'source': 'en',
  'target': 'es',
  'format': 'text'
}" "https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2"


  Source: https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/basic/setup-basic