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is using APIs that scrape translations and audio files from google translation website legal?
<p>Is it legal to use an API that is based on scraping translations and audio files (of the translations) from Google Translation, for personal use? I am not sure of the terms of use of Google Translate concerning that, I did some research but it's still not clear for me whether it's legal or not.</p>
<p>the APIs are:</p>
<p>for the translation: deep-translator: <a href="https://github.com/nidhaloff/deep-translator" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/nidhaloff/deep-translator</a></p>
<p>for the audio files: GTTS: <a href="https://gtts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gtts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/</a> (used along with playsound)</p>

<p>Google Translate doesn't seem to have a separate ToS from Google overall, but they do offer commercial pricing: <a href="https://cloud.google.com/translate/pricing" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cloud.google.com/translate/pricing</a></p>
<p>The first 500K characters are free. Using more is supposed to be on a subscription basis.</p>
<p>If you are using the API as offered by Google, from your service account, and don't circumvent any restrictions, it should be legal.</p>
