DeepL Clipboard Translator

This script translates the content of the clipboard from English to German if it is in English language and vice versa. This is done by detecting a double press of Ctrl+C (within 0.5 seconds) and copying the translation back to the clipboard. The script uses the DeepL API for the translation.

Usage

1. Start the script with python3 clipboard_translator.py
2. Copy some text to your clipboard (e.g. by selecting it and pressing Ctrl+C).
3. Press Ctrl+C twice in a row. The script will translate the text from English to German and copy the result to the clipboard and also automatically Pastes it if possible.

Requirements

• Python 3
• pynput
• clipboard
• DeepL API Key
• langdetect

Setup

1. Install Python 3.
2. Install the required packages with pip install deepl pynput clipboard langdetect (or pip3 instead of pip).
3. Create a .env file to save your API_KEY only locally.
4. Get a free DeepL API Key by signing up for a DeepL Pro account here.
5. Copy the API Key from the DeepL Pro Account Page into the API_KEY variable in the .env file.

API_KEY=your_api_key_as_displayed_by_DeepL

1. Start the script with python clipboard_translator.py
2. Copy some text to your clipboard (e.g. by selecting it and pressing Ctrl+C). -> You`re already doing this by double tapping Ctrl+C twice
3. Press Ctrl+C twice in a row. The script will translate the text from the detected language to English or if detected English to German and copy the result to the clipboard.
4. Press Ctrl+V to paste the translation somewhere.

This was created by the help of GPT-4 by OpenAI