Google Translate Get Current Language

After finding zero of anything to help me online.... I am using the current function for a multi language site: function googleTranslateElementInit() { new google.translate.Trans

Solution 1:

Your not gonna believe it:

window.setInterval(function(){
     var lang = $(".goog-te-menu-value span:first").text();
     alert(lang);
},5000);

I just had to dig to find the container in Firebug and grab the value from the first span element. Hope this helps someone.

Solution 2:

The currently selected language is stored in a cookie named googtrans.

Here's a simple example of grabbing the value from the cookie (based on cookie code from here: What is the shortest function for reading a cookie by name in JavaScript?):

function readCookie(name) {
    var c = document.cookie.split('; '),
    cookies = {}, i, C;

    for (i = c.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
        C = c[i].split('=');
        cookies[C[0]] = C[1];
     }

     return cookies[name];
}
console.log(readCookie('googtrans')); //eg. 'en/no' for Norwegian, '/en/hr' for Croatian, etc.

Solution 3:

Calling google.translate.TranslateElement().c gives the code for the current language. For example, "fr" for french, "en" for english, "de" for german.

Inspecting the google.translate global object is generally informative. It's a little hard b/c Google's obviously compiled the code such that things like TranslateElement.c don't have human readable names, but with a little effort you can make sense of some of the parameters.

Solution 4:

Calling google.translate.TranslateElement().a.sd gives the identifier of the current language.

Examples: "fr" for French, "en" for English, "de" for German, "it" for Italian

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Calling google.translate.TranslateElement().a is an object of other current parameters, like the Google Analytics tracking code.

Check it out in the console to see what is there. How do I access the console?

Inspecting the google.translate global object is generally informative. It is a little hard because Google is constantly updating the code, making changes to the parameter allocations, and has obviously compiled the code in such a way that things like google.translate.TranslateElement() does not have human readable names; with a little effort though, you can make sense of some of the parameters.

Solution 5:

You might be able to get the language from the URL.

    function getUrlVars() {
    var vars = {};
    var parts = window.location.href.replace(/[?&]+([^=&]+)=([^&]*)/gi, function(m,key,value) {
        vars[key] = value;
    });
    return vars;
}

Then

var selected_lang = getUrlVars()['lang'];