AltaVista Babelfish: How to Link to Translated Page

Contributed by David Kirk

Tagged: Internet

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.