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Anyone with any experience of using third-party translation services on recent projects who can recommend one - more interested in developer experience than price, e.g. anything that places nicely with Laravel, is quite clean, well documented, uses REST etc?
(I had to use the Google Ads PHP client library recently and it's pretty horrible.)
Use case is low volume translation of short strings - nouns rather than sentences.
To answer my own question, this Sitepoint tutorial for Google Cloud Translation is very easy to follow.
You can do all the basic stuff (translating strings, detecting a language) with simple HTTP requests, and with a single API key you pass as a query parameter.
It's priced by characters and you get the first 500,000 free.
@wturrell well answered. Mark it as best answer
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