Chain-Translator is a Python script that automates a chain of Google translations, with the aim of generating comedic results. The script is highly configurable and able to easily adapt to different use cases.

The available configurations are listed below:

translate_list.txt

translate_list.txt contains the strings the user wishes to translate, separated by line.

config.json

config.json contains several configurations for the translator.

• base_language determines the starting language of the translator. Usually, this should be set to the same language as the strings in translate_list.txt. This also determines the language of the final output for each translated string. Defaults to en, for English.
• language_chain determines what languages are used in each translation chain.
• translate_back_to_base_each_time determines whether each step in the translation chain is translated back to the language specified by base_language. Note that the final output will still be in the base language regardless of this setting. Defaults to true.
• randomize_chain_for_each_string randomizes the order of the languages specified by language_chain for each translated string. Defaults to false.
• print_all_available_languages is a utility that prints every available language, along with its language code, for use in base_language and language_chain. Note that if this is set to true, no actual translations will be done. Defaults to false.