WebTranslateIt API » TermBase API

The TermBase API is composed of 5 endpoints:

List Terms

This endpoint is accessible by the private API key and is used to list terms.

/api/projects/:project_token/terms.format [GET]

Where format is one of xml, json, or yaml. Note that you can get a JSONP response by adding a ?callback=yourFunctionName parameter to the json API call.

This resource is paginated and serves 250 Terms per page. In the server response headers, you will find Link, with a link for an API call to the next and last pages.

Parameters

page: Page number.

Example query:

https://webtranslateit.com/api/projects/4af21ce1fb3a4f7127a60b31ebc41c1446b38bb2/terms

Example response with JSON:

[
  {
    "id": 1234,
    "text": "User",
    "description": "Someone using the WebTranslateIt service.",
    "created_at": "2010-02-09T23:23:45Z",
    "updated_at": "2011-10-28T13:54:13Z",
  },
  {
    "id": 1235,
    "text": "Segment",
    "description": "A portion of text to translate.",
    "created_at": "2010-02-09T23:23:45Z",
    "updated_at": "2011-10-28T13:54:13Z",
  }
]

Show Term

This endpoint is only accessible by the private API key and is used to show a term.

/api/projects/:project_token/terms/:term_id.format [GET]

Where format is one of xml, json or yaml. Note that you can get a JSONP response by adding a ?callback=yourFunctionName parameter to the json API call.

Example response with JSON:

{
  "id": 1234,
  "text": "User",
  "description": "Someone using the WebTranslateIt service.",
  "created_at": "2010-02-09T23:23:45Z",
  "updated_at": "2011-10-28T13:54:13Z",
}

Example Implementation in Ruby

require 'net/http'
http = Net::HTTP.new('webtranslateit.com', 443)
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new("/api/projects/:api_token/terms/:term_id")
http.request(request)

Example Implementation in PHP

<?php
$api_key = "sekret";
$term_id = "1234";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://webtranslateit.com/api/projects/" . $api_key . "/terms/". $term_id . ".json");
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$p = json_decode($response, true);
print_r($p);
curl_close($ch);
?>

Create Term

This endpoint is only accessible by the private API key and is used to create a new term.

/api/projects/:project_token/terms [POST]

Parameters

A JSON object modelled after the following:

{
  "text": "Term",
  "description": "An optional description"
}

The description field is optional. If everything goes Well, WebTranslateIt will respond with 201 Created in the header and a JSON representation of the term just created in the body.

NEW You can also create one or several Term Translations while creating a Term by passing an optional array of Translation:

{
  "text": "Term",
  "description": "An optional description",
  "translations": [
  {
    "locale": "fr",
    "text": "Terme",
    "description": "La traduction de la description",
    "status": "approved"
  },
  {
    "locale": "es",
    "text": "Terminología",
    "description": "",
    "status": "refused"
  }
  ]
}

In this array of Translation, locale and text are mandatory. status is optional (defaults to proposed).

status can be one of approved, refused or proposed.

Example Implementation in Ruby

require 'net/http'
require 'json'
http = Net::HTTP.new('webtranslateit.com', 443)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new("/api/projects/:api_token/terms", initheader = {'Content-Type' =>'application/json'})
request.body = { "text" => "term", "description" => "An optional description" }.to_json
http.request(request)

Example Implementation in PHP

<?php
$api_key = "sekret";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://webtranslateit.com/api/projects/" . $api_key . "/terms");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array("text" => "term", 'dev_comment' => "An optional description")); 
$response = curl_exec($ch);
print_r($response);
curl_close($ch);
?>

Update Term

This endpoint is only accessible by the private API key and is used to update an existing term.

/api/projects/:project_token/terms/:term_id [PUT]

Parameters

A JSON object modelled after the following:

{
  "text": "Term",
  "description": "An optional description"
}

The description field is optional. Only provided fields will be modified. If everything goes Well, WebTranslateIt will respond with 202 Accepted in the header and a JSON representation of the term just updated in the body.

Example Implementation in Ruby

require 'net/http'
require 'json'
http = Net::HTTP.new('webtranslateit.com', 443)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Put.new("/api/projects/:api_token/terms/:term_id", initheader = {'Content-Type' =>'application/json'})
request.body = { "text" => "Term", "description" => "An optional description" }.to_json
http.request(request)

Example Implementation in PHP

<?php
$api_key = "sekret";
$term_id = "1234";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://webtranslateit.com/api/projects/" . $api_key . "/terms/" . $term_id);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PUT');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array("text" => "Term", 'description' => "An optional description")); 
$response = curl_exec($ch);
print_r($response);
curl_close($ch);
?>

Delete Term

This endpoint is only accessible by the private API key and is used to delete a term and its translations.

/api/projects/:project_token/terms/:term_id [DELETE]

Example Implementation in Ruby

require 'net/http'
http = Net::HTTP.new('webtranslateit.com', 443)
request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new("/api/projects/:api_token/terms/:term_id")
http.request(request)

Example Implementation in PHP

<?php
$api_key = "sekret";
$term_id = "1234";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://webtranslateit.com/api/projects/" . $api_key . "/terms/" . $term_id);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'DELETE');
$response = curl_exec($ch);
print_r($response);
curl_close($ch);
?>

TermBase to TBX

This endpoint is accessible by both the private and public API keys and is used to download a termbase as a TermBase Exchange file (TBX).

/api/projects/:project_token/terms/to_tbx [GET]

For more information about TBX files, please refer to the TBX specifications.

An optional parameter, locale=xx can be passed to get a TBX file containing only the source_locale and locale language pairs.