translate

Installation

Using translate is easy. This command will install the translate executable

go get -u github.com/hankmartinez/translate/translate

Example from help

Multiple args are joined in a single phrase to translate

a simple cli for translation from google.

Usage:
   [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help        help for this command
      --insecure    ignore certificate errors (os env property $TRANSLATE_INSECURE has priority, if present whatever the value is, 'insecure' is assigned to true)
      --sl string   source language (os env property $TRANSLATE_SL has priority) (default "en")
      --tl string   target language (os env property $TRANSLATE_TL has priority) (default "it")

      
translate Hello My Friend -> Ciao amico    
translate --tl ru Hello My Friend -> Привет мой друг

System 'Notify' (linux)

In conjunction with xsel you can set up a simple shell script called by keyboard shortcut

#!/bin/bash
SELECTION=$(xsel -o)
notify-send --icon=info "Translate: $SELECTION" "$(translate $SELECTION)"

The result: