LTSuggest - Submit suggestions to a LibreTranslate server from Python

LibreTranslate API
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# Written by ChatGPT-4

import requests

def suggest_translation(url, q, s, source, target):
    # Build the JSON payload
    payload = {
        "q": q,
        "s": s,
        "source": source,
        "target": target
    }

    # Add trailing slash to URL if not present
    if not url.endswith("/"):
        url += "/"    
    
    # Make the request
    response = requests.post(f"{url}suggest", json=payload)

    return response
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ChatGPT wrote >90% of this! I copied the docs for the API endpoint and it wrote a working version on the first try. It also wrote extensions for uploading CSV data.

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It looks like there’s some issue with needing an API key to make suggest requests to LibreTranslate but I haven’t been able to figure it out.

I wasn’t able to recreate the issue locally. When I run LibreTranslate with this configuration the suggest endpoint works:

python main.py --suggestions --api-keys --req-limit 10

$ python demo.py 
Status code: 200
{'success': True}

However, I see the same bug when trying to connect to LibreTranslate.com:

$ python demo.py 
Status code: 400
{'error': 'Visit https://portal.libretranslate.com to get an API key'}

Based on my reading of the code it seems like you should be able to make suggest requests as long as your IP address isn’t over the request limit. I can make translate requests to LibreTranslate.com so I don’t think I’m over the limit and don’t know what the problem is.

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Ah, that’s awesome! I find that the newer versions of ChatGPT can write small snippets of code quite well. Queries also. But I always need to double check its output.

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It could be due to --require-api-key-origin and/or --require-api-key-secret which are both turned on on libretranslate.com. But I haven’t checked.

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This was it. I reproduced the issue with --require-api-key-secret

python main.py --suggestions --api-keys --req-limit 10 --require-api-key-secret

~/git/LTSuggest$ python demo.py 
Status code: 400
{'error': 'Please contact the server operator to get an API key'
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