prompter: I had a idea for a Chrome-Extension that would translate the contents of a Webpage 100 times (variable by a slider) and finally translate it back to the original Language for some funny outcomes (like with the "Bad Translator" google docs addon but instead of having to manually paste text there i could just translate the whole webpage and make it look funny) but the problem is, that I would need a expensive api key. I, however, noticed that when you "google" google translate, then you can translate for free, so my idea would be to just feed the websites text into that thing the ammount of times that were specified. How would i do that automatically?

assistant: You can try to use the Network tab in your browser's developer tools (F12) to intercept the relevant HTTP request so you can craft your own similar HTTP requests. However, this is likely to be unreliable because of temporary tokens in request headers and because of CAPTCHAs. You could try instead using something like selenium to automatically open a browser and interact with Google that way, but you may still run into CAPTCHAs and would not be able to do this within the browser extension, and it might not be practical to offer a free hosted service doing this. It is also likely that Google would reject your extension due to unauthorized use of their internal APIs.

Ultimately, machine translation uses a lot of computational resources, and companies operate at a loss when offering it for free, so they will do their best to lock the free version down as much as possible to prevent abuse. Instead of attempting to find ways around abuse prevention, consider legitimate alternatives such as embedding a tiny m2m translation model inside the browser, other APIs such as TextSynth or DeepL, or find less complicated ways to mess with the contents of a webpage.

assistant: You could use the following query to search on google:
```
http://www.google.com/search?q=<your search query>
```
However, for your goal it is not recommended, as google have mechanism to block access to this kind of spam.

You may consider using an open-source translation alternative.

prompter: What are some good open source alternatives?

prompter: What are some open-source translation solutions?

prompter: What other open-source alternatives can I use?

prompter: What open source translation services are there?

assistant: If you're planning to publish the extension, it's best not to abuse Google's services like that, as it's very likely that they'll take it down from their store. You should instead use a cheaper alternative, such as LibreTranslate hosted on a cheap Hetzner server. (LibreTranslate isn't as good at translation as Google's services, which in your case should be a positive!) However, if you don't plan on sharing the extension publicly and don't mind potentially being ratelimited, a good place to start is to look at your browser's network monitor (available in the "Inspect Element" panel) while using the translator. You could also study the code of open-source alternative frontends, such as Lingva Translate.

prompter: Thank you!! Ill be sure to do something like that

assistant: I course! I wish you the best of luck in the creation of this extension. If you need any help accessing the APIs of these translation services, or want help creating the extension itself, let me know and I will gladly be able to assist you!

assistant: No worries!
If you need more information about this topic, be sure to ask!

assistant: Happy to help! Let me know how it goes and if you need anything else.

assistant: No problem!
Is there anything else I can help you with?

prompter: Since im not planning on publishing the extension because of what you mentioned above, I would still like to do it that way since it just basically automates a translation of a Website in a funny way which is a service Google already offers, just the boring way ;)

assistant: There are several ways to automatically feed text into Google Translate using a Chrome extension. One way is to use the Web Scraping technique to extract the text from the webpage, then use the JavaScript fetch() function or a library such as axios to send a request to the Google Translate website with the extracted text as the input. You can then use the returned translation as the input for the next translation iteration, until the specified number of translations is reached. Finally, you can use JavaScript to modify the webpage's DOM and replace the original text with the final translation.

assistant: I would strongly recommend not abusing Google services and remaining within their terms of use.

However, if you really wish to do this and understand the potential risks, you could look into automating the process of using the Translate feature of Google by utilizing a headless browser. Headless browsers are browsers that don't open a GUI window but instead perform tasks in the background. It's possible to control them with a programming language such as JavaScript or Python. This would allow you to feed the website text into the translator the amount of times specified and then translate it back in the original language.

assistant: Sure! There are superb huggingface spaces available like: facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M which enable translation for free. If you do not plan to publish extension you can always create a huggingface space. I love cutting edge technology, and the one that is open for all. :)

assistant: In that case, I hope you have fun with your project! Let me know if you need any further assistance.

prompter: what are other alternatives for translation? are there any open-source ones?

prompter: Thanks for the information! I'll be sure to do that and like make m extension with things not from Google

assistant: Please note that even other free translation services, such as DeepL or Bing Translate, often disallow automated use in their terms of service. Unlike Google, they don't have direct control over the Chrome Web Store, but they might issue a complaint or ban users of your extension from interacting with their service.

assistant: No problem!
Is there anything else I can help you with?

assistant: Its best if it contacts your own server for computationally heavy stuff like running a translation neural network. Most of the small stuff can run on the clients machine as the extension.

assistant: Alright! Let me know if you need any help with your Chrome Extension and I will be happy to assist you :)

prompter: Would this idea work as a phone app instead?