Logo representing the initials T B Tristan Bony

Langslater (Discord Bot)

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This project has for goal to translate every messages which are not in the language selected by Discord server administrators.

I started thinking about this bot when I started reading messages which were not in the languages I know and got tired of translating every messages by hand. A bot to automate translation would have allowed me to understand conversations quicker.

I used Python as the programming language (with discord.py wrapper) and SQL to store the target language per server in a SQLite database.

The bot uses slash commands to set it up.

An admin must specify a translation language so that the bot can translate messages sent in another language to this specified one.

Another functionality allows members to send a message in another language without it being translated.

Commands

  • /help shows the help with every commands available
  • /set_languages [string] is used to define the target language, the one which will not be translated (available only to administrator)
  • /translate [string] can be used to send a message in another language

If the bot is removed from a server, all information regarding it stored in the database is deleted.