How to make proper Curl call to Translate API

Question

Hello,

I am new at this and I apologize for what is likely a simple problem. I simply want to call the translate API and have it return the Spanish version of the English text I pass to it.

I have tried a couple variations of the curl call, and both return errors. The first tells me

  parse error near `&'

And the second tells me:

 URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL

Other than replace the actual key with <text-string>, I have pasted the curl exactly as entered:

curl -v -X POST “https://api.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com/translate?api-version=3.0&from=en&to=es" \     
    -H "Ocp-Apim-ResourceId: MrBanana" \
     -H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Region: West US 3" \
     -H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: <text-string>"
     -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8"
     -data-raw "[{'Text':'Hello friend.'}]"

curl -v -X POST “https://api.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com/translate" -d "api-version=3.0" -d "from=en" -d "to=es" \
    -H "Ocp-Apim-ResourceId: MrBanana" \
     -H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Region: West US 3" \
     -H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: <text-string>"
     -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8"
     -data-raw "[{'Text':'Hello friend.'}]"

Answer 1

@Mr. Banana The issue is with the starting double quote in your request. You can try the below curl command on your windows machine, just replace your resource key in the header.

curl -v -X POST "https://api.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com/translate?api-version=3.0&from=en&to=es" -H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: <your_key>" -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8" -d "[{'Text':'Hello friend.'}]"

Also, you do not need all the headers, see the documentation reference here.

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