AltaVista Babelfish: How to Link to Translated Page

Contributor Icon Contributed by davak Date Icon January 31, 2004  
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Altavista’s babelfish is a powerful translation tool. This explains how to pass links through babelfish to get translations.


I often read web pages from different languages by using altavista’s babelfish.
Recently hanson_mark on slashdot broke down the url in an easy to understand way:

To post a link babelfished link you can use:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?lp=
&url=

Where
is one of:

en_zh - English to Chinese
en_fr - English to French
en_de - English to German
en_it - English to Italian
en_ja - English to Japanese
en_ko - English to Korean
en_pt - English to Portuguese
en_es - English to Spanish
zh_en - Chinese to English
fr_en - French to English
fr_de - French to German
de_en - German to English
de_fr - German to French
it_en - Italian to English
ja_en - Japanese to English
ko_en - Korean to English
pt_en - Portuguese to English
ru_en - Russian to English
es_en - Spanish to English

Also make sure the url to translate is correctly URL encoded.

For example, the following URL will translate tech-recipes from English into Spanish. All clicks from the URL will also be translated into Spanish as well.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?lp=en_es&url=www.tech-recipes.com

Thanks, hanson_mark.

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  • Michael Fagan
    My meta-translator can be used for this also. The benefit is that it includes multiple translators and multiple languages.

    Linking to http://www.faganfinder.com/translate/ref.php?from=en
    where en (English) can be replaced by any language name ISO code, will enable users to translate from that language to any other.

    You could also link to a translation using http://www.faganfinder.com/translate/?perform=translate&from=FROM_LANG&to=TO_LANG&t=URL_OR_TEXT
    Appending &res=list
    to that URL will enable users to try out multiple translations for the same text or website.
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