Calling machine translation API in an online experiment

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Dear forum,

My psychopy experiment has a function which sends text to a machine translation API and procures a result. The python code uses requests.post and an authorization key. The response comes as a json file.

I understand that the function needs to be translated correctly into JS. The Psychopy converter gave it a good try but it still doesn’t work. I am not good with JS and it’s hard to ask someone to help because this is not just a JS issue, it’s a specific psychoJS issue as far as I can see.

Could someone please help me understand what I need to use instead of requests. How do I import json?

Thank you very much in advance!

Anastassia

import requests
import json

def use_mt(inputstring):

    source_lang = "fr"
    target_lang = "de"

    headers = {
        'accept': 'application/json',
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    }

    params = (
        ('auth_key', 'XXX'),
    )

    textdata = '{ "segments": [ { "text": "'+str(inputstring)+'" } ], "source_language": "'+str(source_lang)+'", "target_language": "de", "split_sentences": false, "politeness": "auto" }'

    response = requests.post('https://try.XXX.ai/api/v2/translate', headers=headers, params=params, data=textdata.encode('utf8'))

    if response.ok:
        dict = json.loads(my_response)
        raw_output = dict['segments'][0]['text']