backend-apis/app/utils/utils_cloud_translation.py

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"""
Utils for Cloud Translation API
"""

from google.cloud import translate_v2 as translate

translate_client = translate.Client()


def translate_text_cloud_api(
    input_text: str, target_language: str = "en-us"
) -> str:
    """

    Args:
        input_text:
        target_language:

    Returns:
        str
            Translated text

    """
    result = translate_client.translate(
        input_text, target_language=target_language
    )

    if result and "translatedText" in result:
        return result["translatedText"]
    return ""