Using the Google Translate API

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I’m trying to use the Google Translate API in my website.

I imported the ‘google-cloud/translate’ npm package and added the following sample code that Google provided.

const { TranslationServiceClient } = require ( ‘@google-cloud/translate’ );
const translationClient = new TranslationServiceClient ();
const projectId = ‘MYPROJECTID’ ;
const location = ‘global’ ;
const text = ‘Hello, world!’ ;

async function translateText ( ) {
const request = {
parent : projects/ ${ projectId } /locations/ ${ location },
contents : [ text ],
mimeType : ‘text/plain’ , // mime types: text/plain, text/html
sourceLanguageCode : ‘en’ ,
targetLanguageCode : ‘es’ ,
};
const [ response ] = await translationClient . translateText ( request );

**for**  ( **const**  translation  **of**  response . translations ) { 
    console . log ( `Translation:  ${ translation . translatedText }`); 
}

}

$w . onReady ( function ()
{
console . log ( “OK” );
translateText ();
});

When I preview the page, the code doesn’t execute, not even the console.log(“OK”); line. I noticed that if I comment out the ‘require’ line, the code executes (with no translation occurring of course). So I figure it’s the call to the npm package that’s somehow generating an error.

Ideas?