Workflow: build automation using n8n for Googletranslate Noop Create Webhook
Integrations: googleDrive, googleSheets, googleSheetsTrigger, googleTranslate, httpRequest, if, merge, noOp, set, stickyNote

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Do you need more details?\nFind a step-by-step guide in this tutorial\n![Guide](https://www.samirsaci.com/content/images/2025/04/Flash-Cards.png)\n[\ud83c\udfa5 Watch My Tutorial](https://youtu.be/2mRZJATUTDw)"}, "typeVersion": 1}, {"id": "f0defc20-f099-4c7c-83a7-bb687b86a6b7", "name": "Google Translate", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.googleTranslate", "notes": "Translation -> \u4e2d\u6587", "position": [-3500, -420], "parameters": {"text": "={{ $json.initialText }}", "translateTo": "zh-CN"}, "notesInFlow": true, "typeVersion": 2}, {"id": "588d011c-d7e0-4b31-87be-d0c7ff6bf4b7", "name": "AI Agent", "type": "@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.agent", "notes": "Pinyin + Example", "position": [-3080, -380], "parameters": {"text": "={{ $json.translatedText }}", "options": {"systemMessage": "# Role\nYou are a helpful translation agent that will help users to extract the pinyin from Chinese characters to create flashcard for language learning.\n\n# Context\nYou will receive a word or sentence in simplified Chinese characters; you are expected to extract the pinyin and generate a simple sentence in Chinese to illustrate the sense of the word. \n\n# Tasks\n1. 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Retrieve Images from Pexels Free Database\nExtract from Google sheet the word you want to translate to download an illustrating image from the free database of pexels.com\n\n### How to set up?\n- **HTTP Request Node (Call API Pexels)**: add in the header field 'Authorization' the API key provided by Pexels. *(Register here for the free API key: https://www.pexels.com/onboarding/)*\n[Learn more about the HTTP Request Node](https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/core-nodes/n8n-nodes-base.httprequest/)\n- **Upload the picture to Google Drive**:\n   1. Add your Google Drive API credentials to access the folder for images\n   2. Select your parent drive using the list, an URL or ID\n   3. Select the folder in which you want to save the pictures using the list, an URL or ID\n  [Learn more about the Google Drive Upload Node](https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/app-nodes/n8n-nodes-base.googledrive)\n\n"}, "typeVersion": 1}, {"id": "ebacc192-9dba-4cab-ae0f-d5a2e885c208", "name": "Sticky Note1", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [-3960, -780], "parameters": {"color": 7, "width": 600, "height": 680, "content": "## 1. Google Sheet Trigger & Translation using API\nTrigger the workflow when the user adds a word in English in a new row of the column initialText.\n\n### How to set up?\n- **Trigger on Row Added of Google Sheet**:\n   1. Add your Google Sheet API credentials to access the Google Sheet file\n   2. Select the file using the list, an URL or an ID\n   3. Select the sheet in which the vocabulary list is stored\n  [Learn more about the Google Sheet on Row Added Trigger](https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/trigger-nodes/n8n-nodes-base.googlesheetstrigger/)\n- **Google Translate API**:\n   1. Add your Google Translate API credentials\n   2. Select the target language *(Exemple: ZH-CN for Mainland China Mandarin)*\n  [Learn more about the Google Translate API Node](https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/trigger-nodes/n8n-nodes-base.googlesheetstrigger/)\n\n"}, "typeVersion": 1}, {"id": "5bdeb1de-d535-484d-83d6-12d72d8e5ba7", "name": "Sticky Note2", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [-3220, -800], "parameters": {"color": 7, "width": 760, "height": 740, "content": "## 2. Simple AI agent to get the phonetic transcription and generate an sentence example\nThe agent will take the translated word as an input and will output the phonetic transcription and the sentence.\n\n### How to set up?\n- **AI Agent with the Chat Model**:\n   1. Add a chat model with the required credentials *(Example: Open AI 4o-mini)*\n   2. Adapt the system prompt with the target translation language and the format of the sentence\n  [Learn more about the AI Agent Node](https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/cluster-nodes/root-nodes/n8n-nodes-langchain.agent)\n\n"}, "typeVersion": 1}, {"id": "4f3f2a71-f137-4e91-8b1e-8a7342bac293", "name": "Add Results in Sheet", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.googleSheets", "notes": "initialtext, translation, sentence", "position": [-1940, 20], "parameters": {"columns": {"value": {"phonetic": "={{ $json.phonetic }}", "sentence": "={{ $json.example }}", "image_link": "={{ $json.image_name }}", "image_name": "={{ $json.image_link }}", "initialText": "={{ $json.initialText }}", "translatedText": "={{ $json.translatedText }}"}, "schema": [{"id": "initialText", "type": "string", "display": true, "removed": false, "required": false, "displayName": "initialText", "defaultMatch": false, "canBeUsedToMatch": true}, {"id": "translatedText", "type": "string", "display": true, "required": false, "displayName": "translatedText", "defaultMatch": false, "canBeUsedToMatch": true}, {"id": "phonetic", "type": "string", "display": true, "required": false, "displayName": "phonetic", "defaultMatch": false, "canBeUsedToMatch": true}, {"id": "sentence", "type": "string", "display": true, "required": false, "displayName": "sentence", "defaultMatch": false, "canBeUsedToMatch": true}, {"id": "image_name", "type": "string", "display": true, "required": false, "displayName": "image_name", "defaultMatch": false, "canBeUsedToMatch": true}, {"id": "image_link", "type": "string", "display": true, "required": false, "displayName": "image_link", "defaultMatch": false, "canBeUsedToMatch": true}, {"id": "row_number", "type": "string", "display": true, "removed": true, "readOnly": true, "required": false, "displayName": "row_number", "defaultMatch": false, "canBeUsedToMatch": true}], "mappingMode": "defineBelow", "matchingColumns": ["initialText"], "attemptToConvertTypes": false, "convertFieldsToString": false}, "options": {}, "operation": "update", "sheetName": {"__rl": true, "mode": "list", "value": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_SHEET_TAB_ID>", "cachedResultUrl": "", "cachedResultName": ""}, "documentId": {"__rl": true, "mode": "list", "value": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_SHEET_ID>", "cachedResultUrl": "", "cachedResultName": ""}}, "notesInFlow": true, "typeVersion": 4.5}, {"id": "42a20d7e-03bf-4f4e-877b-04ff185cbf1c", "name": "Sticky Note4", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [-2220, -280], "parameters": {"color": 7, "width": 580, "height": 460, "content": "## 4. Combine Results to Update the Google Sheet\nCombine initial text, translation, example sentence and image link to fill the new row.\n\n### How to set up?\n- **Add Results in Google Sheet**:\n   1. Add your Google Sheet API credentials to access the Google Sheet file\n   2. Select the file using the list, an URL or an ID\n   3. Select the sheet in which the vocabulary list is stored\n  [Learn more about the Google Sheet Node](https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/app-nodes/n8n-nodes-base.googlesheets)\n\n"}, "typeVersion": 1}], "pinData": {}, "connections": {"Merge": {"main": [[{"node": "Final Merge", "type": "main", "index": 0}]]}, "AI Agent": {"main": [[{"node": "Extract Pinyin and Example", "type": "main", "index": 0}]]}, "Final Merge": {"main": [[{"node": "Add Results in Sheet", "type": "main", "index": 0}]]}, "Get Picture": {"main": [[{"node": "Upload Picture", "type": "main", "index": 0}]]}, "Extract Fields": {"main": [[{"node": "Merge", "type": "main", "index": 0}]]}, "Upload Picture": {"main": [[{"node": "Extract Image Link", "type": "main", "index": 0}]]}, "Call API Pexels": {"main": [[{"node": "Get Picture", "type": "main", "index": 0}]]}, "Google Translate": {"main": [[{"node": "Extract Fields", "type": "main", "index": 0}, {"node": "AI Agent", "type": "main", "index": 0}]]}, "Take initialText": {"main": [[{"node": "Call API Pexels", "type": "main", "index": 0}]]}, "OpenAI Chat Model": {"ai_languageModel": [[{"node": "AI Agent", "type": "ai_languageModel", "index": 0}]]}, "Trigger Added Row": {"main": [[{"node": "initialText is empty?", "type": "main", "index": 0}, {"node": "Take initialText", "type": "main", "index": 0}]]}, "Extract Image Link": {"main": [[{"node": "Final Merge", "type": "main", "index": 1}]]}, "initialText is empty?": {"main": [[{"node": "Google Translate", "type": "main", "index": 0}], [{"node": "No Operation, do nothing", "type": "main", "index": 0}]]}, "Structured Output Parser": {"ai_outputParser": [[{"node": "AI Agent", "type": "ai_outputParser", "index": 0}]]}, "Extract Pinyin and Example": {"main": [[{"node": "Merge", "type": "main", "index": 1}]]}}}